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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

We were able to replay the transfer before, and looks like that feature was removed from further versions

We were able to replay the transfer before, and looks like that feature was removed from further versions. We wanted to be able to replay the files from completed file transfers interface.
about 3 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Usability 2 Not under consideration

Capability to Monitor IBM MQ Servers (Not MQ FTE) using IBM Control Center

Could you please add the capability to Monitor IBM MQ Servers using IBM Control Center.
almost 4 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Administration & Configuration 0 Not under consideration

Remove SEAS dependecny for Control Center to authenticate to Active Directory/LDAP

Will avoid another product dependency to AD/LDAP authentication and this also saves another platform that includes server resources. Once this idea is implemented, customers does not need to maintain another servers for SEAS and resources to main...
over 4 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Administration & Configuration 2 Not under consideration

Add parameter for Oracle DB Connection String

When operating in an Oracle custer invironment it would be useful to be able to provide a DB connection string as paramter when carryng out configCC.sh. Reason: If only IP is provided itmay happen that a DB switch in the background causes system ...
almost 5 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Technology Stack Support (OS, DB, Protocols) 0 Not under consideration

Sterling Control Center Having an alert on unhandled alerts

Can Control Center generate an alert if a previous alert is not marked as handled if x amount of time has expired?
over 6 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Usability 1 Not under consideration

How to control the return URL of reports submitted to Cognos from IBM Control Center

When submitting a report in Control Center, or when opening a Cognos Studio session, the URL comes back to the client workstation with the server name and tries to connect on port 9300. How can this be configured to not expose the host name?
over 6 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Reporting 0 Not under consideration

Sterling Control Center interface with Enterprise Cognos BI

Currently SCC only utilizes it's own Cognos BI. Should be able to interface with Enterprise Cognos BI.
over 6 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Administration & Configuration 1 Not under consideration

SCC reporting limitation needs to be greatly increased or removed

Currently, when running Cognos based reporting through SCC, there is a hard limit of 5000 records being returned. We need this increased since some days we have more than 100k files transferred or alerts that need to be reported for a time period ...
over 6 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Reporting 1 Not under consideration

Want to create email notification if Active Alert queue has exceeded the limit

I have looked throught the available message ID's for Control Center rules to see if it is possible to setup a rule in which I could create  an email notification of the Active Alert queue limit has exceeded and I did not see any.    Do you ...
over 6 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Other 1 Not under consideration