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Search results: Spectrum Symphony

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SSM restart by SD

Use case: we should ask SD try to restart SSM should it detect non-responsive SSM after a certain time of period (or after tried a number of times). Not only after detecting SSM's PID is gone or the underlying network connection is broken. The len...
over 1 year ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 0 Delivered

Expose endpoint url as configurable parameter in Host Factory

Good morning, Out bank server are in a private and secured network, and dont have visibility to AWS directly. So for when we use AWS Client, when connecting we need to specify an --endpoint-url option to not use default ec2.eu-west-1.amazonaw...
about 3 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3 1 Delivered

Change SD behavior after a connection broken with SSM, in order to decide whether or not it is necessary to restart the application

Following multiple network issues in the GRID infrastructure, we observed that the SD decides each time to restart SSM after a broken connection even if there is no problem between the client and SSM: the workload continues to run and no broken co...
over 3 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3 0 Delivered

GUI: Network tab throws ERROR

On GUI when clicking the Network tab of a server in our cluster it is only possible to see eth* network cards.We would need to make vlan configurations visible there as well. In that way we have more feasibility and better administration possibili...
over 8 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.1 0 Delivered

[Integration Requirement] Possibility to select different memory allocation libraries

Summary: Provide the possibility to select different memory allocation libraries (implementing certain allocation/de-allocation algorithms) via application profile entry for the SSM. Proposed candidates: jemalloc and tcmalloc. They become necessar...
over 8 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.1 2 Delivered

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...
about 9 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.1 3 Delivered

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

SOAM - Package - soamdeploy push - Deploy service package immediately to all available hosts (RFC2967)

In huge Symphony cluster, downloading SI package sometimes cause network issues and it obstructs workload execution. (i.e. blocked host, network bandwidth overflow)It's better to have push (distribute) mode for SI package distribution.
over 11 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Product functionality 4 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

Cloud Proxy - Symphony HTTP SYMREST service

SocGen has 24 on-premise Symphony clusters and is deploying Symphony application clients on public cloud (AWS). To prevent from any intrusion risk, SG CISO expects to have an HTTP proxy between the cloud and the clusters to enable deep flow inspec...
over 9 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.1 7 Delivered