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Spectrum Symphony

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[User Interface and Configuration] EGO - CLI - login to egosh without exposing password (RFC4492)

Need help to logging into egosh in script without passing password as a command line argument. Command line arguments are inherently insecure and can be observed by users on a machine from e.g. task manager. We need to figure out how to pass passw...
over 9 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 5.2 4 Delivered

Excel 2010 or up support

Symphony only support Excel up to 2007, considering there are new Excel versions, and it's widely used in FSS, the higher version should be supported. http://www-01.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSGSMK_6.1.1/connect_for_excel/connector_excel_pre...
over 9 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Product functionality 3 Delivered

Matrix - Solaris 10 stlport4 requirements for Symphony 7.1

Need 32 & 64 bit stlport 4 client side driver on Solaris 10 update 9 before March 2015
over 9 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Future Version 3 Delivered

Certify GCC 4.8 with RHEL 6 for Symphony 6.1.1

Certify GCC 4.8 with RHEL 6 for Symphony 6.1.1
almost 10 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 6.1.1 1 Delivered

[EGO][System] - Improve cluster restart speed on large clusters with unavailable hosts

It took long time to restart the master in a large scale cluster, even there is no workload running. The problem is more significant for clusters with many scavenged hosts.An example is in a ~2000 scavenging hosts cluster, it could take >30min ...
almost 10 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 5.1 3 Delivered

Failover - Request fast recovery when Symphony nodes fail - NUDT

The customer is running real time big data analytics application on Symphony SOA grid, the application has 3 characters:1. large task input size(2.5MB)2. low latency, task round trip is 100ms3. fast recovery, tasks recover time less than 5s in cas...
almost 10 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Product functionality 3 Delivered

Make vemkd more robust against file server glitches

Refer to RFC #4516
almost 10 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Product functionality 1 Delivered

DOC - Document full message body of each of Symphony SNMP events

Need to have the full text of SNMP events including information about data fields going into the text message.
almost 10 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Product functionality 5 Delivered

[RFE][MS] - Improve LIM communication to handle MTU size

Symphony (i.e. EGO) relies on OS MTU configuration. When LIM exceeds the OS MTU limitation, LIM/ELIM data is not transported. Provide a mechanism to allow LIM communication to transport the data when the LIM data exceeds the MTU size.
almost 10 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Product functionality 5 Delivered

[Security] - Active Directory Single Sign-On for ego & soam utilities

We use SOAM utilities such as soamdeploy and soamreg in PowerShell scripts to upload new Symphony applications to our clusters. When we tried uploading applications on our test cluster with the Active Directory security model installed, the two ut...
almost 10 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Product functionality 3 Delivered