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Spectrum Symphony

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AWS spot eviction mechanism does not trigger onServiceInterrupt() event

CVA is using spot servers on AWS. The application is highly depending on the onServiceInterrupt() to properly shutdown the task when spot eviction happens. If the running task can not receive the onServiceInterrupt() and close its output files pro...
almost 2 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 1 Future consideration

support installing primary host in silent mode

When moving Symphony clusters to AWS/Azure, not allowing to install primary host(first one) in a silent mode such as Windows bat script is really unfriendly to us. And brough us lots of inconvenience and extra work. Can you make it happen in 7.3 a...
almost 2 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3 0 Future consideration

persist width of Application name column under workload Health on dashboard

There are 30 characters of our application name. The width of applicaiton name under workload health on dashboard is not persist after navigate away and back.
over 5 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.2.1 0 Planned for future release

Backport RFE134908 to 7.2.0.2

Backport RFE134908 to 7.2.0.2: Configurable backlog value in communication library
almost 4 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.2.0.2 2 Not under consideration

Running Symphony on EKS

Since Citi's use case is running whole symphony in container,, Citi to log a new RFE for entire symphony be deployed in AWS EKS and let Steve/Geoff know RFE#..
almost 2 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 4 Not under consideration

EGO_AUDIT_LOG_INHERIT_PERMISSION on Linux to have the audit logs inherit the permission of the audit log directory

EGO_AUDIT_LOG_INHERIT_PERMISSION on Linux to have the audit logs inherit the permission of the audit log directory , But While having executable audit log files may not be ideal, this is the designed behavior of EGO_AUDIT_LOG_INHERIT_PERMISSION. A...
almost 2 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.2.0.2 1 Not under consideration

EGO_MASTER_LIST supports DNS alias

The client would like to be able to specify alias DNS name instead of official hostname for EGO_MASTER_LIST in ego.conf. For example, there are below master, master candidate, management hosts in the cluster. The left side is their official host n...
over 7 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.1 3 Not under consideration

CVA on AWS: Hostfactory: Redirect workload of an application to a specific resource group by its resource tag

This request was raised by our client during a CVA on AWS implementation discussion. The 1st case: 1. At minimum, they want to have 2 resource groups created 2. The 1st resource group, is a resource group which contains servers with a fixed capa...
almost 2 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 1 Functionality already exists

Prestart Service with SlotToTaskRatio different than 1

To improve processing time
about 2 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.2.1 0 Future consideration

7.2.1.client-13: does not have the SoamFactory.setSymEnv method

Regarding the use of the following: SoamFactory.initialize(); SoamFactory.setSymEnv("EGO_MASTER_LIST","hostname"); <-- the master VIP (on-premise or cloud master ip) SoamFactory.setSymEnv("EGO_KD_PORT","vemkd_port"); <-- 7870 SoamFactory.set...
about 2 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 0 Future consideration