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Sterling Control Center Monitor

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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.
almost 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...
almost 6 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Administration & Configuration 0 Future consideration

IBM Control Center Monitor Traffic from SSP

Right now Control Center lacks the functionality to be able to monitor file transfer traffic within SSP.
over 6 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Reporting 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...
about 5 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Administration & Configuration 1 Future 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

Control Center authentication and control

For shops that are not using IBM Sterling External Authentication Server to authenticate to Control Center and are using the Control Center authentication, there is currently no way to set an expiration period for a user's password or forcing the ...
over 6 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Security 0 Future consideration

IBM Countrol Center File transfer count threshold

I have a scenario as below.Generate alerts when an expected traffic (transaction count) from a customer is above or below the defined threshold. This threshold value should be configurable based on the partner and transaction type. This should als...
over 6 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Other 0 Future consideration

Request for a new option non_durable in ICC

The monitor target is IBM MQMFT. MQ application has a non-durable option, but that is not supported by ICC. It is a critical option so that ICC can set it to non-durable to avoid fill up the local file system on the MQ server due to a high volume ...
over 6 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Other 0 Future consideration

Add TrackingID as a variable that can be passed from B2Bi

TrackingID can be optionally enabled in a B2Bi business process. If it is passed to SCC it can be used to good advantage as a correlator in a workflow SLC to track documents as they are handled by a sequence of business processes. This is a reques...
over 6 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Usability 0 Future consideration

Cluster statistics utility - queue and thread monitoring

A utility is required that logs queue usage on each node in a Sterling Integrator cluster The utility should track queue usage over time by node and for each node be able to provide statistics (eg. average, min, max, count) for a time period on: Q...
over 6 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Reporting 1 Future consideration