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Search results: Spectrum Symphony

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Enable CLI that allows to modify resource groups' preference level for a consumer

IBM Spectrum Symphony product GUI allows users to choose more than one resource groups for a consumer and set their preference level to seek compute capacity when there is demand. However, there is no CLI (command Line interface) that allows users...
almost 2 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 7 Delivered

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

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...
about 3 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3 0 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

SD crash during port scan

During our vulnerability scan, SD process crash and don't take any more jobs until we restart it. We need to add some protection mechanism to avoid crashing process.
over 5 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.2 2 Delivered

Add heartbeat and restarting for plc java process

Currently, plc hang without any error or warning message. we request to add heartbeat and restarting for plc java processes.
over 5 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.2.1 1 Delivered

[Security and Access Control][CE] [Security] - Symphony should immediately reflect changes in Active Directory

The current Active Directory behavior in Symphony 7.1 is flawed. Feedback from support is that the expected practice is after a new user or group is added to AD or an existing user is added to an existing group that the cluster should be restarted...
about 10 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.1 3 Delivered

[Workload Scheduling Policy] SOAM - Policy - Task scheduled to service instance under initialization instead of those ready to run tasks

The service has the logic to restart itself once memory utilization hits certain threshold. It returns a control code(1) when finishing a task, and upon this control code, SI is configured to restart itself. However, tasks are found to be dispatch...
about 10 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 5.1 4 Delivered

[EGO][System] - Improve cluster restart speed on large clusters with unavailable hosts

It took long time to restart the master in a large scale cluster, even there is no workload running. The problem is more significant for clusters with many scavenged hosts.An example is in a ~2000 scavenging hosts cluster, it could take >30min ...
about 11 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 5.1 3 Delivered