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Spectrum Symphony

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Enable dynamic debug for unavailable hosts:? Dynamically turn on LIM/PEM debug log for unavailable host

Currently we have a feature to dynamically turn on LIM/PEM debug for a particular host in OK state, and for this request we want to be able to dynamically turn on debug locally for LIM/PEM on a host even if the host appears to be unavailable in th...
about 8 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 6.1.1 2 Not under consideration

Dynamic SSM Resource Group History Files to SFS

Dynamic SSM resource groups work well in Symphony 7 but for one issue. By definition a dynamic resource group does not contain management hosts but consists of regular compute hosts. These hosts do not know of the shared file system where session ...
about 8 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.1 3 Not under consideration

[User Interface and Configuration] Display child process ID on GUI

In Task Details tab on Symphony console, it displays the process ID for the SI for that task, however, it does not display any children process ids. We need to see the child process IDs that were started by the SI.
about 8 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.1 4 Not under consideration

[Workload Scheduling Policy][WellsFargo]Task redundant scheduling on timeout

Please advise how to implement the following functions: 1, have task timeout for 500 seconds. 2, if a task run more than 500 seconds, reschedule the task on a new engine, but in the mean time, keep the original task running 3, for the original tas...
about 8 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.1 5 Not under consideration

[Resource Management Policy][WellsFargo][RFE]Support transparent master fail-over

Currently, if primary master fails, symphony will fail-over onto secondary master. During this fail-over process, all of new clients/request will fail. This request is to ask for the "seamless failover", new clients should wait for new master.
about 8 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.1 4 Not under consideration

[Workload Monitoring and Management] Automatic session type removal when removing service

When calling soam wsdl api sdRegisterAppUpdate with a fragment that has operation="Remove", it should be permitted to submit a fragment that specifies service name, but not session type name(s). In this case, all session types that reference the s...
about 8 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.1 3 Not under consideration

Require Symphony processes to run as non-root in advancewem

Commerzbank is using Windows 2003 Management hosts which is reaching its end of support and we are in situation where we have to move to another OS immediately. So far we have tested it with Windows 2008 but Windows 2008R2 has non-configurable ver...
about 8 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 6.1.1 2 Not under consideration

Cluster restart

While using the script egoshutdown.sh to shut down the cluster a lot of grid processes (pem and ssm) survive and turn into zombie processes.Killing these zombies after running the script egoshutdown.sh leads to "Blocked Hosts" after starting the c...
about 8 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 6.1.1 3 Not under consideration

[Cluster Management] Add RFC2131: enable soamdeploy flat directory structure on Symphony 5.1

The RFC2131 feature implemented in SYM 4.1 was not taken into SYM 5.1 or versions afterwards caused by lacking of usage feedback a few years back [IBM contact person: Jun Zhu (junzhu@ca.ibm.com)], we need this feature for Symphony 5.1, as some lea...
about 8 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 5.1 3 Not under consideration

A new environment variable is needed at client side to point the DDT working directory to a local disk

In current release, DDT work directory is controlled by SOAM_HOME ( under SOAM_HOME/work/datamanager/host:port). The customer wants an additional parameter to control DDT work directory explicitly and separate it from SOAM_HOME environmental varia...
about 8 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.1 2 Not under consideration