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Search results: Spectrum Symphony

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Feasibility of multihome Management hosts to support different MTU on network.

We would like IBM to certify below solution for supporting differnet MTU with multiple network cards on Management hosts and different sets of compute hosts where one set of comput hosts has 1500MTU setup and another set of compute hosts has 9000M...
almost 9 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.1 3 Delivered

support of SHA 256 certificates for grid gui 6.1.1 - DB

Due to the fact that the signature algorithm SHA 1 is considered to be unsafe and SHA 1 certificates are marked as unsafe by well known browsers, we had decided, to swap all SHA 1 certificates against SHA 256 certificates. This includes the certif...
over 9 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 6.1.1 3 Delivered

[EGO][CLI] - Truncated Consumer Name on egosh alloc list "-l"

Current the consumer name is truncated even with "-l" option. It is extremely inconvenience for user. It is great if user can configure statically or dynamically length of consumer. egosh alloc list -lALLOC CONSUMER CLIENT RGROUP RESOURCE ALLOCATE...
about 10 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 6.1.1 5 Delivered

more values of allocationStrategy supported in 7.2.1.1

Like 7.3, 7.2.1.1 should also have feature "allocationStrategy" like CapacityOptmized, Diversity, etc. Currently 7,2,1,1 HostFactory supports " lowestPrice"
about 5 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.2.1 2 Delivered

Spinning docker containers from cluster admin but as service account process

This is the email discussion we had with Michael Fieman from IBM. Hi Sandeep, David First, the RFE 140136: Symphony with SELinux had been fully completed and had been delivered tothe Fix Center with URL for your download available at:http://www.ib...
about 5 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3 2 Delivered

Request to have app profile level settings to limit number of tasks executed in a persistent service instance

In a large cluster shared by 100's of applications from different LOBs, quite often, the a bad application workload might crash or disable servers by:1) over consumption of system memory2) filling up the root file systems with core files3) etcIn t...
about 5 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.2.0.2 2 Not under consideration

Forcefully terminating lingering SSM and restarting on another management host

Customer largest production cluster PG1 had an incident on March 13. PG1 span over 2 ~ 3 DCs. There was a network failure between two DCs in the morning. VEMKD and SSM were running at different DCs. Customer tried to disable the app so they can re...
over 5 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Product functionality 2 Delivered

SMC: "resubmitOnZeroResourcesTImeoutMinutes" to be applicable at cluster level

Objective:Given 3 clusters (2 primary cluster and 1 reserve cluster) and for a given application, we want to be able to do session level redirection such that: 1) Both Primary clusters are not scalable but Reserve cluster is2) The first ranked pri...
about 6 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.2.1 1 Delivered

Additional Feature in Symphony existing commands

Is it possible to have some enhancement in our existing symphony commands like soamview session or soamview task where we can ask IBM to add more information related to job termination and Pending reasons like below examples . And Job submission t...
about 6 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.2.0.2 3 Not under consideration

[RFE][PIMCO] - ReclaimGracePeriod and Priority for Yield parent jobs should not be ignored for recursive jobs

Current case, for recursive application, say parent job with reclaimGraceperiod 1500 with priority 1000, child job with 100second with priority 1, however The slot that is yielded by parent and running child task got reclaimed in 100 seconds by SS...
about 6 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.2.1 0 Delivered