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Access Control Support for new Granular Recovery feature in DP

Joerg_R

Hello Team DP 23.4 introduced a new Granular Recovery Module that allows the fast recovery of single items from mounted disks on a Mount Proxy hosts. For better access control and security please provide a feature to grant access to specific users…
- 10 months ago
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Support for Bulk Updates in Web-based scheduler

Joerg_R

Hello Team, the Web-based scheduler does not support bulk update operations, so typical changes like update of the session start time, protection time or adding prefix or suffix on each schedule name have to be done one by one. Please provide such…
- 10 months ago
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Improve handling of virtual hosts

Ulrich Windl

Situation Virtual hosts cannot be detected as such in the GUI's Client list Virtual hosts are "hard-wired to a physical host Virtual hosts can be "Upgrade"d Problems When not being able to recognize virtual hosts, one may mistakenly upgrade…
- over 1 year ago
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DP should have a post processing engine to update index/catalog

Thomas Reichardt

adressing multipe issues: If a specific file (specific creation date) is required for restore from VMware backups, the restore expert would have to check multiple VM backups to find the correct file. If customer applied multi-disk agent approach to…
- over 1 year ago
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4-eyes-concept for critical backup&recovery tasks in DP

Thomas Reichardt

as security enforcement gets stronger and stronger customers demand a 4-eyes-concept to be added to critical DP admin tasks like (but not limited to): - deletion of Devices - deletion of backups - adjustment of retention times - exporting of tapes…
- over 1 year ago
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in DP WebGUI add a month calendar view on scheduled backups

Thomas Reichardt

please re-introduce a month view to check for a given backup/ a given client when will it be executed and in what type (full, inc, diff , copy ...)
- over 1 year ago
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full file/oject catalogue creation per source (by postprocess)

Thomas Reichardt

for all backup sources where file/object catalogue is not created during backup itself a postprocess should regularly create a new full object/file catalogue (including the linkage to the corresponding sessions where the file/object is stored) this…
- over 1 year ago
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Improve Conflict Management

Pauline

Hello, when working with the Data Protector GUI and two persons are using the same backup specification it is possible that person 1 is saves changes and person 2 don't get any message about changes because the backup specification was opened before.…
- over 1 year ago
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Improve notification NotEnoughFreeMedia e.g. for Free Pools

Ulrich Windl

When using Free Pools and the notification NotEnoughFreeMedia , the only reasonable option (besides setting the "number of Free Media" to zero) is to configure one notification for every media pool that does not use a free pool. Otherwise you get warnings…
- over 1 year ago
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Show client type in list of clients

Ulrich Windl

We use Virtual Hosts a lot. Unfortunately after importing such, it's no longer obvious from the client list what is a physical client, and what is a logical client (not talking about other types of clients). It would be nice to have an overview of clients…
- over 1 year ago
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Request to add GUI option, command or report to know if clients are using encrypted communication.

Francisco García

In the past we had "omnicc -encryption -status [-all]" for ECC. However, it was deprecated after secure communication option was introduced in DP10.x and encryption enabled by default if secure communication command run between Client and Cell Manager…
- over 1 year ago
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Reporting Server doesn't support SMTPS connections with STARTTLS - Client was not authenticated to send anonymous mail

Gerd Kehrbusch

DP 11.03 extracted from Reporting.log: The server response was: 5.7. 57 SMTP; Client was not authenticated to send anonymous mail during MAIL FROM . Lab explaination (not officially documented): Reporting Server doesn't support SMTPS connections…
- over 1 year ago
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It should not be possible, to install a dp component (e.g. dedeplucation) on a non-supported OS

Gerd Kehrbusch

We only support the deduplication component on Windows Server Version 2016 or later. However, it is possible to install it on unsupported platforms such as Windows 10 without any problems, without any warning during the installation. This is only…
- over 1 year ago
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Clear event log with specific parameters.

peki_ob

It is possible to delete the whole event log only. It would be nice to clear the log by a specfic time range e.g. entries older than x days.
- over 2 years ago
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Additional filter for session list

peki_ob

Internal Database -> Sessions Allow the selection of backup specification like the object operation dialog.
- over 2 years ago
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Change of default protection "permanent" for new backup specifications

Gerd Kehrbusch

Customers would like to see an option implemented that allows them to deviate from the standard "permanent" protection for new backup specifications. The idea would be a parameter (omnirc or similar) that allows this. The background is that new employees…
- over 2 years ago
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DP10.9x / 11.x VEAgent template include / exclude

Gerd Kehrbusch

This is a request to implement an enhancement to VEPA/VMware integration. Customer's would like to create VEPA templates that just include certain disk(s) to be backed up Example: Trying to create templates that i.e. only include disks=({name='scsi0…
- over 2 years ago
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Support for MFA for Data Protector

GarySJOG

We have a requirement for Multi-Factor Authentication when logging into Data Protector. With the move to a HTML5 based GUI, could consideration be given to making MFA a design objective of the updated GUI.
- over 2 years ago
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Question about the number of text bytes

suxin1980

Hi The client's GUI is in Japanese. After the backup, when viewing the session report in IDB, There were no problem found in front of the script but we found unknown character in the back of the script。 for example: " script name ö. This problem…
- over 2 years ago
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removal of a single specific component in the GUI interface

Jeremie Arena

For exemple, i install "User Interface" component and finally i d'ont want this component. I need to go to the client and go in Control panel on client->Select Data Protector-> Click Change-> Modify.
- over 2 years ago
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extend the number of special characters for passwords in SAP integration

Gerd Kehrbusch

We observed underscore(_), hyphen(-), Single Quotes ('), hash (#) ,star(*),colon(:) and ^ are supported. Spaces, slash(/) , at(@) and & are not allowed.
- over 2 years ago
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Bring back the ability to run the GUI in an X11 environment

DBurton30

Make "xomni," the command that runs the X11 version of the DP GUI in a Unix environment, available again. This can be part of the normal Cell install or perhaps a set of files to download/install if wanted/needed.
- over 3 years ago
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add option to remove or not cell manager certificate when exporting a client

Dionisio_S

When a client is exported from a cell manager, the client is secured removing the cell manager certificate from the client itself. If you want to import again in the same cell manager you need to execute on the client side the command: omnicc -secure_comm…
- over 3 years ago
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Select VMs based on logical combination of VMWare Tags and Categories

Marc Fisseler

VMware Tags and Categories should be able to support more then one tag in combination. This will provide much more flexibility in handling of VM backups in a vCenter environment. ACTUAL BEHAVIOR: Given an example where I have the Categories Policy …
- over 3 years ago
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Copy & Paste Support Across Data Protector GUI

Sebastian.Koehler

Brief description: The Data Protector GUI should enable copy & paste support.Make sure that copy & paste works for all information displayed in the Data Protector GUI. It must be possible to copy device name, media and session IDs, names and values…
- over 3 years ago
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Access Control Support for new Granular Recovery feature in DP

Support for Bulk Updates in Web-based scheduler

Improve handling of virtual hosts

DP should have a post processing engine to update index/catalog

4-eyes-concept for critical backup&recovery tasks in DP

in DP WebGUI add a month calendar view on scheduled backups

full file/oject catalogue creation per source (by postprocess)

Improve Conflict Management

Improve notification NotEnoughFreeMedia e.g. for Free Pools

Show client type in list of clients

Request to add GUI option, command or report to know if clients are using encrypted communication.

Reporting Server doesn't support SMTPS connections with STARTTLS - Client was not authenticated to send anonymous mail

It should not be possible, to install a dp component (e.g. dedeplucation) on a non-supported OS

Clear event log with specific parameters.

Additional filter for session list

Change of default protection "permanent" for new backup specifications

DP10.9x / 11.x VEAgent template include / exclude

Support for MFA for Data Protector

Question about the number of text bytes

removal of a single specific component in the GUI interface

extend the number of special characters for passwords in SAP integration

Bring back the ability to run the GUI in an X11 environment

add option to remove or not cell manager certificate when exporting a client

Select VMs based on logical combination of VMWare Tags and Categories

Copy & Paste Support Across Data Protector GUI

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