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Sterling Control Center Monitor

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Show product version for servers added/monitored via OSA REST APIs

CCM/D currently shows the product version of monitored products i.e. SFG and C:D but it doesn't show for products monitored using the OSA i.e. SSP/SEAS. The OSA REST APIs should extract the version from the relevant events and make this available ...
about 8 hours ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Reporting 0 Submitted

Alert to potential duplicate files

If CCM sees multiple instances of the same filename of the same size uploaded to the same SFG/B2Bi mailbox within a configurable time period then it should alert to it as a possible duplicate. This cannot be done using SLCs currently. It should no...
about 8 hours ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Reporting 0 Submitted

Monitor and alert on expiring SFG/B2Bi certificates and keys

Control Center already provides monitoring and alerting on certificates used in SSP and C:D. SFG transfers using protocols such as FTPS, AS/2, and EBICS also rely on certificates with SFTP transfers relying on SSH keys to secure them. Where SFG is...
about 8 hours ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Usability 0 Submitted

Provide additional filters for dashboard widgets

Operational users at large, especially global, customers want to be able to quickly see the status of their transfers and infrastructure for subsets of the whole. Whilst the file transfer widget supports filtering by server group this is not an op...
about 9 hours ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Usability 0 Submitted

Integrate CCM with Open Telemetry

Provide the ability to emit key MFT/B2B events using Open Telemetry so they can be consumed and used for troubleshooting with open tools. Adding CCM capability to consume Open Telemetry signals will simplify integration across 3rd party products a...
about 9 hours ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / APIs & SDKs 0 Submitted

Log Standards

Some customers has the need to read the logs using some realtime observability tools, such as Prometheus, Splunk. There is some difficulties on integrating those actual logs of Sterling Control Center with the new standards. This request has the g...
11 months ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Administration & Configuration 3 Not under consideration

Allow alerts dashboard widget to filter by event type

The alerts dashboard widget needs to be able to filter by event type. Customer wants to see the SLC alerts on the alert dashboard.
28 days ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Usability 0 Planned for future release

In Control center Queued Process view should be cleared automatically

In the Control Center, for a process or session to be moved from the “Queued Process” view to the “Completed Processes” view, there should be an end event for the process/session. In certain situations, the process may stay in the “Queued Processe...
10 months ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Performance 0 Planned for future release

IBM Control Center - Not finding specific MSGID's

Need IBM Control Center to monitor the following MSG ID's SVTM026I - Session not establishedSVTM505I - Session Retry exceededSVTM105I - A process may be moved to HO HC Currently IBM Control Center is not getting recording these events and we need ...
9 months ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Reporting 0 Under review

Users should have the ability to produce an alert whenever Control Center loses connection to it's own database

Of course, whenever it loses connection to the DB it will not be able to write anything to the EVENTS table but when that connection is re-established, there should be some message written that indicates there's been a problem that we can monitor ...
10 months ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Other 1 Functionality already exists