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Spectrum Symphony

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Enhancement for Symphony7.1 API

Currently Symphony7.1 API does not provide a way to give details of blocked host. With current function char* soam_AppAttrDetail::hostPidPairs. This function returns the hosts for failed SIMs, which may sometimes include some unblocked host in the...
about 7 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.1 3 Not under consideration

Symphony/BigInsights/Kerberos support

Customer in Belgium and Denmark require Symphony/BigInsights/Kerberos integration to be supported.Contact for Belgium client is Olivier De Pierpont.Contact for Denmark client is Claus Samuelsen
about 7 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.1 1 Not under consideration

[Security and Access Control][RFE] client certificate authentication

There should be an option to require login to Platform PMC, connection to EGO REST API, connection to Symphony Admin wsdl API, and connections from symphony client to use client certificate authentication. For example of what this is, see here htt...
over 7 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.1 4 Not under consideration

[Integration Requirement]Support for asynchronous log4j logging

Citi would like to make a pitch for asynchronous logging that is supported in log4j2. See below link for details:https://logging.apache.org/log4j/2.x/manual/async.html Having this feature in Sym7.1.x is going to be a value add given that companies...
over 7 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.1 3 Not under consideration

[SDK and API][RFE] add a GET method to the RESTful API that returns current demand data for all conumsers, including number of demanded slots

add a GET method to the RESTful API that returns current demand data for all conumsers, including number of demanded slots, demanded resource groups, and consumer id.
over 7 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.1 4 Not under consideration

[Cluster Management] Add OS dependency for service packages

For platform independent applications (eg. Java based) it would be great to have OS option on service package dependency setup.Without that option Java based application service packages have to be either repackaged (replace deployment.xml having ...
over 7 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Product functionality 2 Not under consideration

System Resource utilization per slot

We need to see the system resource utilization per slot. Resource like memory, cpu used by each individual slot while executing tasks. This data is helpful in understanding utilization per task. This should be real time and also hsould give us his...
over 7 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.1 1 Not under consideration

Support "=" in task ResourcePreference

Allow customer to specify a resource requirement string like "intexnode=1" in task ResourcePreference class
over 7 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.1 3 Not under consideration

[RFE][UC] - RHEL/CentOS domain names / FQDNs too long - Arbitrary Symphony limit at 64 chars

FQDNs (of compute hosts, in this example) can not exceed 64 characters in length. Otherwise, they fail to join the cluster.
over 7 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.1 4 Not under consideration

[Workload Monitoring and Management] Show output from service start command

Currently SIM log shows generic error if service start commnd fails: The service startCmd command specified in the Application Profile terminated unexpectedly with exit code: 127 State : Exit. It doesn't much help to understand what was wrong on s...
over 7 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Product functionality 5 Not under consideration