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Sterling Control Center Monitor

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Add support to multiple DB service

Hi Team, Our DBA pattern for oracle databases is to have two separate data bases in two data centers with its own host and service name. The current configCC.sh doesnt support entering two service names during the config. if we do have such capabi...
about 2 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Administration & Configuration 0 Not under consideration

Increase character limit for Description field to more than 255 characters.

We are planning to update description field with multiple characters and then generate the report for dashboard purpose. Customizing the character limit to higher value will help us to add more characters in the description field.
about 1 year ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Administration & Configuration 4 Not under consideration

Pause Monitored File Agents when Monitored CD server is paused

Currently when a CD server is paused and if the File Agent has been stopped, the File Agent shows a down status. When a server is paused, the associated File Agents should be paused as well.
about 1 year ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Reporting 3 Not under consideration

Configure Alerts for 'Start Failed' Status of Adapters in B2B Integrator

Hi Team, We have alert email in place when the adapter goes to 'Stopped' status. However alert emails are not sent whenever the Adapter status goes to 'Start Failed'. How to capture this event and trigger an email ? . Business impact ( BusImpact )...
about 6 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Reporting 0 Not under consideration

Identify changes made by upgrade/install

We have made config changes to the SCC config that reside outside of the system. When we upgrade, those changes are sometimes overwritten by the installer. We need a way to know if custom install/config changes are impacted on upgrade.
about 6 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor 0 Not under consideration

Monitor SI schedules and Routing Rules in SCC

Currently SI related schedules and Routing rules does not get monitored in SCC. Some of the SI related schedules are very critical and important for Customer, if that can get disabled then file processing does not happened. Similarly if Routing r...
over 4 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Reporting 0 Not under consideration

Improve startWebAppServer.bat

On Windows, when the startWebAppServer.bat is executed from CMD, it doesn't close. If the window is closed, this will stop the web server for that EP. The only way I found that works is that when our team runs the startWebAppServer.bat, we disconn...
over 1 year ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Administration & Configuration 1 Not under consideration

Implement the use of LDAP without the need of IBM External Authentication Server

In order to implement the use of LDAP for authenticating to Control Center, it is a requirement to use IBM External Authentication Server. There should be a way of doing so without implementing another product that has be installed, configured, an...
over 4 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Security 1 Not under consideration

Control Center 6.0 Reports Enhancement

Please add the ability to save a report before actually running it. Now with the introduction of Cognos, it takes a considerable amount of time to run reports. When a user is trying to create a new report, version 6.0 forces the user to run the re...
about 6 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Reporting 1 Not under consideration

User management between SCC and Cognos

As of today, the user management for Cognos is done through a java security call to SCC, that provides dummy user/password to be able to run report. We do not have the possibility to create users in SCC that can connect to the cognos dispatcher, a...
about 6 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Reporting 1 Not under consideration