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Sterling Control Center Monitor

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Add an indicator on the Web Console for Connect Direct that would show as to whether it has Secure + or not

Adding a Secure + indicator to the Web console would be beneficial in that it would provide a more complete picture.
over 4 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Security / Usability 0 Future consideration

Queued Process Monitor needs to be updated

There are instances where the queued process monitor shows processes that are sometimes days old. There should be a way to ensure that processes in the Queued Processes are actually running.
over 4 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Performance / Usability 0 Future consideration

Enhancement to Server Inventory Report - Add File Agent version

I think it would be useful if the version of File Agent that is being used for a Connect Direct server (Windows or UNIX) be displayed on this report as well. Especially for Connect Direct Windows because File Agent is still a separate component.
over 4 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Reporting 0 Future 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

ICC Needs a mechanism not to restart whenever , user partner/user trustkey/public cert is checked in to ICC keystore

have enabled ICC SSL for java console to access with 58081.Steps used to performFrom ICC1.Created key store, created selfsign certificate and extracted cert in.arm format using ikeyman tool.2.Created trust key3.Ran configCC and provided paths for ...
over 4 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Administration & Configuration 0 Not under consideration

Dynamically assign email id

Currently in SCC, while creating the Action, we have to enter the email id, so this email id ix fixed for all the related rules. However if we can have option to assign the email id dynamically then we can send the file alert to concerned part...
over 4 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Administration & Configuration 0 Future 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

Add Window Tolerance in Minutes capability

Currently in Control Center slc window tolerance, the value is in hours. Although a window tolerance of zero can be selected, a user may want a tolerance that is less than one hour, but not zero. There may be a need to monitor a file for timelines...
over 4 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Usability 2 Functionality already exists

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

Ability to handle all queued process at one time.

Today in ICC when files queued up in "Queued process" It need to be handled manually to move to completed process. Then the process would be eligible for purging. Latest version of ICC 6.1.2.1 will allow user to handle queued process / page. If cu...
over 4 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Usability 0 Future consideration