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My ideas: Sterling Control Center Monitor

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The ability to monitor the time frame when no activity has happened.

There are times when Sterling File Gateway gets stuck and stops processing files but no alerts are generated etc. I would like to be able to monitor for no activity and when no activity has been detected in X time to be able to raise and alert/snm...
11 months ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Administration & Configuration 1 Planned for future release

Provide monitoring of Up/Down status for PEM components (PEM,PR,PP,PCM)

Partner Engagement Manager is a core component of a modernized Sterling stack and provides critical partner facing interfaces (both external and internal) that should be monitored. CCM should provide out of the box monitoring for UP/DOWN status an...
about 1 year ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Other 0 Planned for future release

How to monitor the file count for particuar files per day

How to monitor the file count for particuar files per day.. We have a partner who usuaully sends arounf 500 transaction per day but there are some case it incrases upto 2000 per day during whihc we will get infra issues wrt cpu heavy utlization ,...
about 1 year ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Reporting 2 Planned for future release

User should be able to use variable in Send email >To field under the action.

Currently, we are only able to provide mail ids only when we create the action in Control Center Monitor. IN our project, we are using meta data and we want to use the meta data variable in Send email so that as per server, email should get to own...
over 1 year ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Usability 1 Planned for future release

Timezone conversion/formatting for time-related variables

We are testing Control Center for monitoring and managing C:D server, and one of the inconvenience we encountered was the lack of formatting options for time-related variables (event elements). To elablorate, we tried to set up rules and actions t...
over 1 year ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Reporting 5 Planned for future release

Server Inventory Report should contain all fields related to node

Server Inventory report does contain all the field. Need enhancement to reporting capability to include all fields in the report as this is required to gather details and automate the inventory validation.
over 1 year ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Reporting 4 Planned for future release

Disable concurrent user login in SCC

As per Bank security team, Concurrent logins should not be allowed. If the user is login via different machines or different browsers then the old session should be destroyed. As per them, we need to have this feature in the product or commitment ...
almost 2 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Security 2 Planned for future release

Make timestamps for events more readable

Currently, when browsing Control Center for any given server, when viewing Processes, File Transfers, Alerts, Events, or Completed File Agent Activity, the timestamps for the last 24 hours of processes are given in how much time has passed since t...
almost 2 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Usability 0 Planned for future release

Add Columns to the User and Roles section.

I would like to be able to see the User Description when I am looking at the User and Roles section. In our shop, we use the User Description for enter the person's name. This can be much different when compared to their userid. Adding the User De...
about 2 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Usability 1 Planned for future release

Improve the Secure + Key Certificates Report and Trusted Certificates Report

Please add the validity dates (start and expiration) to the Secure + Key Certificates Report and the Trusted Certificates Report. This is useful information that is often needed and would assist in the management of key and trusted certificates.
over 2 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Reporting 5 Planned for future release