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Administration & Configuration

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Log Standards

Some customers has the need to read the logs using some realtime observability tools, such as Prometheus, Splunk. There is some difficulties on integrating those actual logs of Sterling Control Center with the new standards. This request has the g...
9 months ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Administration & Configuration 3 Not under consideration

Add System Business Process from SBI to the BP list in Control Center

The idea is to be able to choose from the drop-down list of BPs to monitor, the processes of the Sterling B2B Integrator system so that ICC is the tool used for this purpose and not have different systems that also work differently with the Alerts...
over 3 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Administration & Configuration 0 Future consideration

Ability to remove a CD Node and ALL references to it in other Netmaps etc with the click of a button.

Removing an unused CD Node can take hours of manual changes to remove all entries in other netmaps etc

Operating System version to be collected by ICC and displayed.

Currently Control Center shows the Operating system as UNIX, Windows etc. It would be more beneficial if Control Center could display the actual OS version , eg Windows 2012, RedHat 6.8.
over 5 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Administration & Configuration 1 Future consideration

Add the Tag Mapping Labels to the Search Filter

Control Center 6.1.1.0 iFix03. When you create a tag mapping and tag label, the label only displays in the view column. When you select the add filter, the drop down displays as Tag1 Tag2 etc. So only administrator of the application know what the...
over 6 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Administration & Configuration 0 Future consideration

Need to have an override property file to prevent wipe of customized settings

With higher volume customers it is common to require customization to property files, especially engine.properties and Engine.log4j. However, with application of an iFix or FixPack (or upgrade), there is a risk that these settings will be lost. B2...
almost 6 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Administration & Configuration 1 Future consideration

Template for Holiday Schedule

Please add a feature to allow for exclusion template we can apply to all SLC instead of having to go into each SLC and select the exclusions.
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Administration & Configuration 0 Planned for future release

IBM Control Center Dashboard Enhancement

Unable to customize what and how is displayed on the SCC dashboard upon user login. Number of fields, field contents, color coding, etc should be configurable. One issue that is causing a big problem right now is the number of "pseudo failed" file...
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Administration & Configuration 0 Future consideration

Control Center Quarterly Recurrence Calendar

Currently when creating a new Control Center calendar, the only recurrence selections available are daily, weekly, monthly, and yearly. I believe it would be useful to add a quarterly recurrence as well.
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Administration & Configuration / Usability 0 Planned for future release

Contol Center needs to have a contingency synchronization function

Control Center needs to have a configuration synchronization feature that keeps all of the non-server specific configuration items in sync with a contingency instance of SCC that is not running but shares a synchronized database. Manually copying ...
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Administration & Configuration 0 Future consideration