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Installation & Upgrade

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Automated Cognos reconfiguration for High Availability

Installing ICC in a High Availability environment requires steps taken to reconfigure Cognos as detailed here: https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SS4Q96_6.1.1/com.ibm.help.scc.install.doc/scc_ensure_cognos_server_connection_HA.html Thes...
over 5 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Installation & Upgrade 2 Not under consideration

Linux systemd IBM Control Center auto boot system unit file

Develop and test example IBM Control Center linux autoboot systemd control script since systemd is replacing init.d for RHEL 7 and other linux distributions.
over 6 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Installation & Upgrade 0 Future consideration

SCC should secure Cognos using the same certificates as the SCC application by default

The integrated Cognos instance in SCC should be secured using the same certificate stores as the SCC application itself. I should not use a CAMUSER certificate signed by CA as the default when SCC has been secured using private certificates. This ...
over 6 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Installation & Upgrade 2 Not under consideration

Option to rename installation directory for Control Center upgrades

We would like to have the option to be able to update the Control Center installation directory location/name after install. For example - when you install it provides a default directory name "ControlCenter6.1.0" as the default name, but when you...
over 6 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Installation & Upgrade 0 Planned for future release

SNMP Trap DateTime format issue

SNMP trap datetime format generated from Sterling Control Center always in UTC format irrespective of datetime config. in SCC settings while requirement is to generate the datetime format in ETC OR as per the configuration presents in the ICC sett...
over 6 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Installation & Upgrade 0 Not under consideration

Configuring an email server for SCC

Need to configure an email server, so we can get server status related email alerts generated from Sterling Control Center.
over 6 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Installation & Upgrade 1 Not under consideration