Looking for input on what features Rocket Servergraph should add next!

At Rocket we always put our Customers first and our whole purpose for existing is to provide tools that our customers love and provide real world value. In that light I'd like to solicit some feedback from Rocket Servergraph users on what should come next with Servergraph in 2021.

Please list anything you are interested in, that would make your job easier or your day better.

You can either contact me with feedback directly, or start a conversation with replies below.

Thanks for your time!​

Steve Wright
Product Manager Rocket Servergraph
781.684.2139
swright@rocketswoftware.com


#ServerGraph
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Hi. I'd like to see a standard report in Servergraph which can easily show the capacity and utilisation of an IBM Spectrum Protect Cloud Container Storage Pool. Currently, as far as I can tell in Servergraph 9.2, the reports for Cloud Container Pools fail to show any details on the actual capacity or consumption, not even if I create a custom dashboard.

I believe that Servergraph needs to query the "Cloud Space Allocated (MB)" and "Cloud Space Utilized (MB)" columns in the storagepools table of the SP database. Servergraph should at least make sure all the information gathered by a "q stg" Spectrum Protect admin command are captured. It would also be essential to be able to plot this capacity and consumption over a historical period, much as Servergraph has been able to do for tape libraries.

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Daniel Banche
CSI Ltd.
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Hi. I'd like to see a standard report in Servergraph which can easily show the capacity and utilisation of an IBM Spectrum Protect Cloud Container Storage Pool. Currently, as far as I can tell in Servergraph 9.2, the reports for Cloud Container Pools fail to show any details on the actual capacity or consumption, not even if I create a custom dashboard.

I believe that Servergraph needs to query the "Cloud Space Allocated (MB)" and "Cloud Space Utilized (MB)" columns in the storagepools table of the SP database. Servergraph should at least make sure all the information gathered by a "q stg" Spectrum Protect admin command are captured. It would also be essential to be able to plot this capacity and consumption over a historical period, much as Servergraph has been able to do for tape libraries.

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Daniel Banche
CSI Ltd.
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Thanks Daniel! This is great feedback and you've even given us the command to use for collection.

I'm asking dev to review this, and will respond soon. If we don't have that column it we'll investigate adding it.

Thanks again!

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Steve Wright
Product Manager
Rocket Software
CO
781.684.2139
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Thanks Daniel! This is great feedback and you've even given us the command to use for collection.

I'm asking dev to review this, and will respond soon. If we don't have that column it we'll investigate adding it.

Thanks again!

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Steve Wright
Product Manager
Rocket Software
CO
781.684.2139
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You're welcome Steve.

I think there are a few new columns added to Spectrum Protect which pertain to Cloud Container Pools, which need to be captured. This is the output of the admin command against a Cloud Container Pool in Azure, where I've highlighted columns which I'd expect to be able to see if I wanted to know about a Cloud Container Pool (as well as the rest, which I think are already captured in Servergraph, if they aren't they should be). Some are unpopulated in this instance, but may not be in other cases:

Protect: xxxxxxxx>q stg f=d

Storage Pool Name: CLOUDPOOL
Storage Pool Type: Primary
Device Class Name:
Storage Type: CLOUD
Cloud Type: AZURE
Cloud URL: https://.....
Cloud Identity:
Cloud Location: OFFPREMISE
Estimated Capacity:
Space Trigger Util:
Pct Util:
Pct Migr:
Pct Logical:
High Mig Pct:
Low Mig Pct:
Migration Delay:
Migration Continue:
Migration Processes:
Reclamation Processes:
Next Storage Pool:
Reclaim Storage Pool:
Maximum Size Threshold: No Limit
Access: Read/Write
Description: xxxxxxxx
Overflow Location:
Cache Migrated Files?:
Collocate?:
Reclamation Threshold:
Offsite Reclamation Limit:
Maximum Scratch Volumes Allowed:
Number of Scratch Volumes Used:
Delay Period for Cloud Reuse: 3
Migration in Progress?:
Amount Migrated (MB):
Elapsed Migration Time (seconds):
Reclamation in Progress?:
Last Update by (administrator): xxxxxxx
Last Update Date/Time: 08/09/2018 10:21:40
Storage Pool Data Format: Native
Copy Storage Pool(s):
Active Data Pool(s):
Continue Copy on Error?:
CRC Data: No
Reclamation Type:
Overwrite Data when Deleted:
Deduplicate Data?: Yes
Processes For Identifying Duplicates:
Compressed: Yes
Space Used for Protected Data: 198,961 K
Total Pending Space: 111,696 M
Deduplication Savings: 150,931 G (76.78%)
Compression Savings: 23,489 G (51.46%)
Total Space Saved: 174,420 G (88.73%)
Auto-copy Mode:
Contains Data Deduplicated by Client?:
Maximum Simultaneous Writers: No Limit
Protect Processes:
Protection Storage Pool:
Protect Local Storage Pool(s):
Reclamation Volume Limit:
Date of Last Protection to Remote Pool:
Date of Last Protection to Local Pool:
Deduplicate Requires Backup?:
Encrypted: Yes
Pct Encrypted: 100%
Cloud Space Allocated (MB): 26,827,995
Cloud Space Utilized (MB): 22,798,664
Bucket Name:
Local Estimated Capacity: 1,663 G
Local Pct Util: 0.0
Local Pct Logical: 0.0
Cloud Storage Class:
Remove Restored Cpy Before End of Life:

Reference for more info: https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSEQVQ_8.1.10/srv.reference/r_cmd_stgpool_query.html

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Daniel Banche
CSI Ltd.
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At Rocket we always put our Customers first and our whole purpose for existing is to provide tools that our customers love and provide real world value. In that light I'd like to solicit some feedback from Rocket Servergraph users on what should come next with Servergraph in 2021.

Please list anything you are interested in, that would make your job easier or your day better.

You can either contact me with feedback directly, or start a conversation with replies below.

Thanks for your time!​

Steve Wright
Product Manager Rocket Servergraph
781.684.2139
swright@rocketswoftware.com


#ServerGraph
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Hi Steve,

Another feature I would like to see supported in Servergraph is Spectrum Protect Retention Sets. There is currently no visibility of Retention Sets, Rules and Contents in Servergraph. I think we should be able to see the same information as is provided by these queries:

• query retrule
• query retset
• query retsetcontents

The feature has been available since Spectrum Protect 8.1.7 was released in Feb 2019 and is now widely used by customers in preference to doing periodic backups under separate node names.

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Daniel Banche
CSI Ltd.
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Hi Steve,

Another feature I would like to see supported in Servergraph is Spectrum Protect Retention Sets. There is currently no visibility of Retention Sets, Rules and Contents in Servergraph. I think we should be able to see the same information as is provided by these queries:

• query retrule
• query retset
• query retsetcontents

The feature has been available since Spectrum Protect 8.1.7 was released in Feb 2019 and is now widely used by customers in preference to doing periodic backups under separate node names.

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Daniel Banche
CSI Ltd.
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Hi Daniel, thanks for the feedback, I'll add this to the backlog for the team to investigate for the future.

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Stephen Aldous
Rocket Software
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Hi Steve,

Another feature I would like to see supported in Servergraph is Spectrum Protect Retention Sets. There is currently no visibility of Retention Sets, Rules and Contents in Servergraph. I think we should be able to see the same information as is provided by these queries:

• query retrule
• query retset
• query retsetcontents

The feature has been available since Spectrum Protect 8.1.7 was released in Feb 2019 and is now widely used by customers in preference to doing periodic backups under separate node names.

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Daniel Banche
CSI Ltd.
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As a follow-up, this request has already been captured before and is planned on our roadmap for later this year (Q4).

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Stephen Aldous
Rocket Software
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As a follow-up, this request has already been captured before and is planned on our roadmap for later this year (Q4).

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Stephen Aldous
Rocket Software
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That's great to hear Stephen. I look forward to seeing it in action.

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Daniel Banche
CSI Ltd.
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At Rocket we always put our Customers first and our whole purpose for existing is to provide tools that our customers love and provide real world value. In that light I'd like to solicit some feedback from Rocket Servergraph users on what should come next with Servergraph in 2021.

Please list anything you are interested in, that would make your job easier or your day better.

You can either contact me with feedback directly, or start a conversation with replies below.

Thanks for your time!​

Steve Wright
Product Manager Rocket Servergraph
781.684.2139
swright@rocketswoftware.com


#ServerGraph
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How about a direct link in to Service Now for Tickets  - allowing Servergraph to generate tickets based on TSM error codes

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Glenn Teddy
IT Administrator
The Toronto-Dominion Bank
Scarborough ON Canada
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