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Spectrum Symphony

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Account for slots given to an application when startup_cores_if_no_history is configured

Description: In the current implementation, startup_cores_if_no_history are provisioned for each application regardless of the slots in the grid, which can lead to overprovision. We would like to request that if the application has access to slots...
about 2 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.2.1 0 Future consideration

Minimum dependencies for clients

The client libraries and dependencies of Symphony is around 1.4GB, which include dependencies for many languages.We are currently minimizing the size of all projects, so we need a version with the minimum libraries needed to make the client work. ...
over 4 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.2.1 0 Future consideration

Mandatory comments for soamcontrol

Request to make mandatory comments for suspend/kill/resume session and task, and disable app.
over 3 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.2.1 1 Future consideration

Symphony HostFactory launch instance based on time

We request HF launce instances including spot instance based on time and terminated based on with optional time and workload
over 3 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.2 1 Future consideration

Ensure "egosh resource open" truly open a host to take new tasks by default

When Symphony opens a host, the common sense understanding of it is "open" means the host is open to "business" i.e. to new workload. However, the current Symphony host open feature is so that, if SOAM_CLOSE_NODE_GRACEFULLY=Y also true, then hosts...
over 3 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.2.0.2 0 Future consideration

Backport SNMP event for SOA_FAILED_TO_ACCEPT_CLIENT to Symphony 7.2.0-2

from IBM documentation the integer value for the error message is the following:SOA_FAILED_TO_ACCEPT_CLIENTComponent name: SYMReturned integer: 75089Error The OS communication system returns an error while attempting to accept a new client's conne...
almost 4 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.2.0.2 1 Future consideration

Adding session close info into INFO log.

When the SSM is running as normal level log, we need to have into info logs all metrics that will be interesting to know when we reach SSM limitation. THe most important metric for use to have is : - Active live session- Yield taskbut others metri...
about 4 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3 2 Future consideration

allow SMC to balance the workloads automatically if new cluster is added

Allow SMC to balance the workloads automatically from a silo cluster that is heavyly used to a new cluster when this one is available.
about 4 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.2.0.2 1 Future consideration

Every logon attempt should be logged with source IP information

Every logon event should be logged and with source IP address. This is for audit purpose, and also for identifying the source host that issues failed attempts.
over 4 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.1.2 1 Future consideration

MultiCluster RestAPI

Could you please provide samples and docs for SMC REST API ? Samples should ideally cover logon, service add, service sync, profile registration, profile fragment update, retrieve profile.As Ajith mentioned, please deliver samples before docs if t...
over 4 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3 0 Future consideration