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Spectrum Symphony

We need to avoid clear text password in ego.conf file on Windows Management Servers for SYMREST service.

We need to avoid clear text password in ego.conf file on Windows Management Servers for SYMREST service. Currently, on Windows Management servers, we are required to add certificate password in clear text for SYMREST service.  This is violati...
1 day ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 0 Submitted

We need to have ability to specify certificate in local directory for WebServicesGateway service and then refer it in configuration file on shared directory between management servers similar to certificate setup for WEBGUI/REST/SYMREST

We need to have ability to specify certificate in local directory for WebServicesGateway service and then refer it in configuration file on shared directory between management servers similar to certificate setup for WEBGUI/REST/SYMREST Currently ...
1 day ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 0 Submitted

Queueing Mechanism for Ego Rest API Package Deployment

rest/deployment/v1/deploy  - currently if a previous deployment in place the new deployment will fail. i am not asking for allowing concurrent deployment, but simply asking for a queueing mechanism so we can fire and forget. currently we will...
18 days ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 1 Under review

FP3 supported version of EC2 fleet provider

Hi Team, As discussed on ticket TS023098391, I am raising the RFE to request the FP3 supported version of the EC2 fleet provider which was delivered for FP2 as an RFE SPCS-I-919 (sym-7.3.2-build601917-ms). Thanks, Shruti
29 days ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 10 Future consideration

Implement flow control or throttling into SMC's SMCM service so that rogue client's excessive connections can be handled from service side to prevent impact to other clients.

It would help preventing SMCM performance degradation and response backlog increasing to the point where it will impact client's SessionCreationTime duration.   
19 days ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 1 Under review

timeout on SdAdminCommand::authenticate()

SD's SdAdminCommand::authenticate() performs a GSSAPI (Kerberos) authenticationcall with no application-level timeout. The GSSAPI call is an in-process libraryinvocation — not a raw TCP socket — so OS-level TCP timeouts do not apply. Whenthe KDC i...
27 days ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 0 Future consideration

SOAM_DIRECT_DATA_PORT to support multiple port range

internal firewall policy has limitation on continuous port range. any chance we can support multiple port continuous port range for SOAM_DIRECT_DATA_PORT. say to allow us to configure something like "20010-20060;30010-30060". hope this RFE is stra...
about 1 month ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 4 Future consideration

Enable SD Auth by pass for Users in an SSO/Kerberos enabled environment

we would like to check if possible that under workload SSO enabled cluster, if we can support AD authentication bypass if user specifying empty string as the user name. 
about 2 months ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 0 Future consideration

Expose a documented, supported and deterministic release mechanism for TaskOutputHandle in the Symphony .NET SDK.

Following up on our discussion under support case TS022160603, we are experiencing high memory usage in our Symphony .NET client. Our testing indicates that the native memory associated with TaskOutputHandle is not released promptly/properly after...
about 2 months ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 0 Future consideration

SYMREST add disable/enable Symphony application feature

Users want to manage Symphony applications and workload via SYMREST service which cannot bounce an application per ticket TS022907381 . Bounce (disable/enable) application is a very basic operation in application management.
about 2 months ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 0 Under review