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Sterling Control Center Monitor

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Centralized password file for Control Center connection IDs

The connection ID and password has to be configured for each Connect:Direct node added to Control Center. The password in use has to be changed on a regular basis requiring that all nodes using that particular ID and password be touched on a month...
over 6 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Administration & Configuration 0 Not under consideration

Control Center 6.0 and 6.1 - Enhance Connect Direct Process Details Report

I noticed that the Connect Direct Process Details report does not display the source file. Please add this as an available column. This is helpful information especially when the source file may be a gdg or have a date and time stamp. I realize th...
over 6 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Reporting 0 Future consideration

Improve Control Center Calendars

There needs to be more flexibility with Control Center calendars. Let's say for example, I need a calendar for January, April, July, and October to be daily. The way calendar maintenance currently works, if I select all of the active days for thos...
over 6 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Administration & Configuration / Usability 0 Planned for future release

Unlimited timeout for a user on Web Dashboard

Our 24/7 monitoring needs all dashboards running all time; so no logout or timeout for a given user.Please make this functionality available for web based dashboards for Control center.
over 6 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Administration & Configuration 0 Functionality already exists

Control Center 6.1 - Conf Migrated from other server - EP's from old server

When a Control Center 6.1 configuration that has multiple EP's that is migrated to a new server, the EP's from the old server appear in the new setup. Why can't the EP's from the old configuration be deleted during installation or by running the c...
over 6 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Administration & Configuration 1 Not under consideration

Control Center OpenVMS Support

We would like IBM Control Center to be able to monitor and manage C:D nodes on the OpenVMS platform.
over 6 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Usability 0 Not under consideration

Add Control Center functionality to monitor MQ MFT server over encrypted channel

Add functionality for Control Center to monitor MQ MFT servers over an encrypted channel.Any connections between Control Center and a monitored server regardless of type should allow for encrypted communications.
over 6 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Security 0 Planned for future release

Improve Control Center email information for CCTR135I

I currently have a rule which reports if an insert to the EVENTS table exceeds 30 seconds. The email generated does not provided which managed server the EP was trying to insert the data for. This information can be found in the engine logs, but i...
about 3 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Reporting 2 Functionality already exists

Control Center SLC Holiday Processing

Please add an enhancement for Control Center that will help manage SLC alerting during holidays. Currently, Control Center calendars do not reflect holidays. As a result, the operators may have to handle multiple slc alerts due to processes not ru...
about 3 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Reporting 3 Future consideration

Add Control Center monitoring capability for DATA EXPRESS OPEN PLATFORM (vendor DATA443)

TSYS recently went through a merger with Global Payments. As a result of the merger, some business/operations functions between the two companies have been consolidated. Global Payments utilizes Data Express Open Platform by DATA443. There is not ...
about 3 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / APIs & SDKs 2 Functionality already exists