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Administration & Configuration

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Increase character limit for Description field to more than 255 characters.

We are planning to update description field with multiple characters and then generate the report for dashboard purpose. Customizing the character limit to higher value will help us to add more characters in the description field.
over 1 year ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Administration & Configuration 4 Not under consideration

Improve startWebAppServer.bat

On Windows, when the startWebAppServer.bat is executed from CMD, it doesn't close. If the window is closed, this will stop the web server for that EP. The only way I found that works is that when our team runs the startWebAppServer.bat, we disconn...
about 2 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Administration & Configuration 1 Not under consideration

Sterling Control Center Monitor Oracle RAC cluster enable multiple service names

We understand that we can't configure two database service names via configCC.sh. We would like to raise an enhancement request to update the configuration in the property files to map two different database service names to the same Oracle RAC en...
about 2 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Administration & Configuration 1 Future consideration

Add support to multiple DB service

Hi Team, Our DBA pattern for oracle databases is to have two separate data bases in two data centers with its own host and service name. The current configCC.sh doesnt support entering two service names during the config. if we do have such capabi...
over 2 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Administration & Configuration 0 Not under consideration

Add System Business Process from SBI to the BP list in Control Center

The idea is to be able to choose from the drop-down list of BPs to monitor, the processes of the Sterling B2B Integrator system so that ICC is the tool used for this purpose and not have different systems that also work differently with the Alerts...
over 3 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Administration & Configuration 0 Future consideration

Capability to Monitor IBM MQ Servers (Not MQ FTE) using IBM Control Center

Could you please add the capability to Monitor IBM MQ Servers using IBM Control Center.
over 4 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Administration & Configuration 0 Not under consideration

Secure Connections - Key/Certificate Management

Currently with Control Center a keystore and a truststore have to be setup in order to allow secure connections. Once both have been setup, the configCC.bat or configCC.sh has to be run in order to tell the Control Center application the path loca...
over 4 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Administration & Configuration 1 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 maint...
almost 5 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 ...
almost 5 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 partne...
almost 5 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Administration & Configuration 0 Future consideration