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Sterling Control Center Monitor

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Ability to edit SLC name

Currently if a user wants to change the name of a SLC, it must be duplicated and then a new name can be given and the original slc can be deleted. The SLC name needs to be an editable field to allow updates.
over 2 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Usability 1 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

Moving picture password technology

No description provided
about 3 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Security 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?
about 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?
about 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.
about 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 ...
about 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 ...
about 6 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Other 1 Not under consideration

Centralized password file for Control Center connection IDs

The connection ID and password has to be configured for each Connect:Direct node added to Control Center. The password in use has to be changed on a regular basis requiring that all nodes using that particular ID and password be touched on a month...
about 6 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Administration & Configuration 0 Not under consideration

Control Center 6.1 - Conf Migrated from other server - EP's from old server

When a Control Center 6.1 configuration that has multiple EP's that is migrated to a new server, the EP's from the old server appear in the new setup. Why can't the EP's from the old configuration be deleted during installation or by running the c...
about 6 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Administration & Configuration 1 Not under consideration