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Sterling Control Center Monitor

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Add slc notes to be displayed as part of an SLC alert

A note section was added to Control Center slc's as part of an enhancement request. This is very useful and beneficial to the team that is responsible for monitoring Control Center alerts. However, the team is asking if the notes could be part of ...
over 1 year ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Usability 2 Future consideration

Total of files sent to a specific partner (Report)

Customer wants to know the total of files sent to a specific partner in a period.
11 months ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Reporting 1 Future consideration

Improve Control Center Rule Administration

In Control Center 6.2 rule administration can only be done via the Web console. If a new rule or an existing rule is updated that contains a list of servers, there is not a pick list. There is a search, but each server the user wants to select can...
almost 2 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Usability 1 Future consideration

Monitored File Agents - Notification needed for "error in container"

The File Agent CDFA.log reports "error in container" messages in the log. We would like an associated message ID to be assigned to this so that a Control Center email notification can be set up. This will help our team clean up various File Agents...
7 months ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Reporting 0 Future consideration

Report to pull last accessed/last login time for all partners

There seems to be a lack of reporting on historical activity of users/partners in Sterling to be able to determine if an account is active and when it was last active. I'm currently trying to pull a last login/last accessed timestamp for each user...
about 6 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Reporting 0 Future consideration

Sterling Control Center does not show the process number of a Sterling Integrator business process

Sterling Control Center does not display the Connect:Direct process numbers from a Sterling Integrator business process going through the CDSA. This is because the process number is actually not passed from Sterling Integrator to Control Center. T...
about 6 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Reporting 0 Future consideration

More Robust Alerting Options

Currently using out-of-the-box functionality, we can send e-mail alerts or use sms messages to our phones based on the criteria we enter in rules/actions. E-mails are well and good, but for system outages, we prefer sms messaging. Unfortunately, o...
about 1 year ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Other 3 Future consideration

Add SI Community As Criteria for Data Visibility Groups.

Our company services two different businesses, financial and health care. These are separated within SFG/B2Bi by Community. Within SCC, there is no Data Visibility Group (DVG) criteria that includes Community, or provides an alternate way of keepi...
over 1 year ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor 0 Future consideration

Add fonctionnality to re-Deliver file from Filegateway

Would it be possible to re-deliver an Filegateway transfer error directly from the Control Center web console? We alert our teams with Control Center but they cannot restart directly from Control Center. Our teams should connect à Control Center ...
over 2 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor 0 Future consideration

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