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Sterling Control Center Monitor

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Have Control Center be able to monitor alternate IP addresses for CD fail over servers

Currently when a CD server is defined on Control Center only one IP address can be listed. We have some failover servers where the name of the Connect Direct is the same, but if the primary goes down and the failover comes up, Control Center canno...
over 6 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Usability 1 Future consideration

Allow Admin User To Act As Non-Admin User

As a Control Center admin, I can see all activity while signed in with my own credentials. To troubleshoot incidents for other users, it is advantageous to sign in with the same credentials they have so that I can see things from their points of v...
over 6 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Usability 0 Future consideration

Dynamic content and recipient for SCC email based Actions

A B2Bi process has an onFault which sets some email content in process data , and a second assign sets the email recipient . SCC should be able to use these bits of data to dynamically create the alert email.
over 6 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Administration & Configuration 0 Future consideration

Control Center 6.0 and 6.1 - Enhance Connect Direct Process Details Report

I noticed that the Connect Direct Process Details report does not display the source file. Please add this as an available column. This is helpful information especially when the source file may be a gdg or have a date and time stamp. I realize th...
over 6 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Reporting 0 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...
8 months ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Reporting 0 Future consideration

B2Bi AS2 infoarmation is not sent to IBM Contol Center

Hi Team, we would like to monitor the as2 files details in ICC control center but as of now we got to know from IBM PMR that most of the AS2 is in system BP's which is not sent to CCM, CCM will really only see the HTTP protocol session. All you ha...
10 months ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Other 0 Future consideration

Ignore case sensitivity when posting to add servers via API. Duplicate servers are currently not checked via case.

ICC Classic Console (java exception) and Web Dashboard when trying to edit a given node seemingly break when duplicate servers are posted that feature unique server IDs in the database but non-unique node details (hostname, node name). This proble...
over 1 year ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / APIs & SDKs 0 Future consideration

Keep Filters When Switching from Active Monitor to Queued Activity Monitory or any monitor

Our users often switch from the Active Monitor to Queued Activity Monitor and vice versa often. The user may have certain items filtered in the Active Monitor and then if they switch to the Queued Activity Monitor and back to the Active Monitor, t...
over 1 year ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Usability 1 Future consideration

Unhandle Alert

Sometimes mistakes happen. A user may accidentally handle an alert. It would be great if an enhancement was added where as long as the handled alert is still present in the Handled Alerts Monitor, the user could then check that handled alert and s...
almost 2 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Usability 1 Future consideration

Add support for date or variable date to be added to Report names and Email Subjects on Reports

When using Control Center to automate a daily report to provide all the previous days transmission details from our Connect:Direct instance the CC monitors we would like to indicate a date of previous day in the report name created but we could li...
about 2 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Reporting 2 Future consideration