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Search results: Spectrum Symphony

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Improve Multicluster overflow capabilities

The main issue with multi-cluster is the inability to set rules for returning tasks to the primary cluster. For example, if the primary site becomes free after tasks have been sent to a secondary site, it would be beneficial to return the load to ...
5 months ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 0 Submitted

Support Oracle Single Schema for multiple clusters data

In this link https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/spectrum-symphony/7.3.2?topic=database-setting-up-external-productionYou have this precondition in the 'Before you begin' section: "For data security, each cluster should have a different database schema to...
about 2 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 0 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...
over 2 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3 0 Future consideration

Purger takes 7 hours to clean task_attributes table

It takes as long as 8 hours to clean task_attributes table with 14 days data, around 22M records. Please either add primary key or drop/truncate partition instead of deleting rows which is an expensive operation.
almost 6 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.2.1 1 Delivered

[Foundation][SOAM] - [DUP81511] all SSMs and cluster admin should belong to the same primary user group

(Since RFE team already know, briefly fill in information. For an example, "all SSMs and cluster admin should belong to the same primary user group".)
almost 8 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.1 6 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

[SMC][RFE][WellsFargo] - Dynamic cluster support for SMC

, Recovered grid to automatically join resource pool for all 3 mode (primary/secondary mode, session level load balancing, task level load balancing)Description: In any case, if a failed grid recover and back to service, it should be automatically...
about 8 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.1 3 Delivered

Support SMC task level recover

In the current delivery of SMC7.1.2 + Symphony 7.1, in the task level balancing mode, when the primary symphony grid does down, all the tasks are continue sent to secondary grid. However, when primary grid comes back, it wont be re-cover and reuse...
about 8 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.1 1 Delivered

Due to the network glitch, vemkd on primary master does not go down while the new vemkd on the backup master is starting

1) The VEMKD on the failover host cannot properly start as the previous VEMKD still holds the lock on the status file. 2) When the network glitch is over, the master takes over and the failover lim shuts down the VEMKD by sending a SIGTERM3) The V...
about 9 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 6.1.1 2 Delivered

[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.
over 9 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.1 4 Not under consideration