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Sterling Control Center Monitor

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Audit logs should be created when a CD or B2Bi node is Paused/Resumed recording the ID

In production situations node monitoring by Control Center is critical for alerting on failures. Currently someone can pause monitoring and we have no way of determining who did so.
over 4 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Reporting 0 Planned for future release

Add line number column to be used for Active Alerts

On the Active Alerts screen for the Web console there isn't a line/item # column. This exists in version 6.0.0.2 for the Java/Swing console, but not 6.1 and above Web console. Add to user configuration view allowing users to select.
over 2 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Usability 0 Planned for future release

Ability to right click in order to comment and/or handle an alert

On Control Center 6.1.3 there are two different icons for commenting and handling alerts. The user currently has to select a check box and then click on the comment or handle icons for the alert. These comment and handle icons are static. Dependin...
over 2 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Usability 0 Planned for future release

Enable Control Center reports to display in multiple time zones

Currently when a user starts to setup a report to be ran, Control Center defaults with the time zone that the console preferences are set it. There is a drop down menu for other time zones, but when a user selects one of these, the report will not...
almost 6 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Reporting 1 Planned for future release

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...
about 6 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Administration & Configuration / Usability 0 Planned for future release

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.
about 6 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Security 0 Planned for future release

Mannualy Delete an Alert

Customer is one of the biggest bank in Brazil. They have the need to, as soon as the action handle an alert, delete the alert from the list
about 4 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Usability 1 Planned for future release

Add release and delete functionality to Queued Processes Monitor in Control Center 6.1.2.1

I believe I just found that there is no option to delete or release a process that is shown in the Queued Processes monitor (aka Queued Activity Monitor). The only option is to clear. The functionality to delete or release a process needs to be im...
about 4 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Usability 2 Planned for future release

Adding feature such as “Generating SSL Certificate Report with expiration dates” from IBM Control Center for all Connect Direct Nodes would definitely be helpful and can have quick glance. It helps in avoiding outages

Adding feature such as “Generating SSL Certificate Report with expiration dates” from IBM Control Center for all Connect Direct Nodes would definitely be helpful and can have quick glance as a report. It helps in avoiding outages as well.
over 4 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Administration & Configuration 1 Planned for future release

Support MQ HA when configuring Topic for monitoring SSP

The MQ infrastructure at our organisation is set up in a HA topology where we have multiple queue managers. The queue manager name is not provided to applications wanting to connect to the queues with the expectation that they use the default queu...
over 4 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Administration & Configuration 0 Planned for future release