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Administration & Configuration

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Control Center Quarterly Recurrence Calendar

Currently when creating a new Control Center calendar, the only recurrence selections available are daily, weekly, monthly, and yearly. I believe it would be useful to add a quarterly recurrence as well.
over 6 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Administration & Configuration / Usability 0 Planned for future release

Windows Connect:Direct proxy password secure

Wells Fargo is requesting an enhancement to Windows Connect:Direct. Currently when a new user proxy is configured a password has to be entered by the person creating the user proxy. This password, in most cases, is owned by a team other than the N...
over 6 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Administration & Configuration 1 Future consideration

Automated pausing of node monitoring.

Automated pausing feature needs to be developed to automatically pause/suspend monitoring of mutiple Connect:Direct node groups during datacetner swithover/failover. WIthin automated process individual nodes or node groups must be configurable. Th...
over 6 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Administration & Configuration 0 Future consideration

Control Center 6.1 Move server.xml file settings to database

Currently in version 6.1 a timeout value can be added to the server.xml file which is located in the installation directory under web\wlp\usr\servers\defaultServer. The IBM documentation says to add a parameter invalidationTimeout= and put the val...
over 6 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Administration & Configuration 0 Future consideration

Rest API - General

From Home Depot: Currently, Control Center cannot re-start the adapters unless it is done through the use of scripts. The available mechanism, as of now is, invoking an OS script (when a rule is triggered), and the OS script in-turn can invoke any...

The ability to monitor the time frame when no activity has happened.

There are times when Sterling File Gateway gets stuck and stops processing files but no alerts are generated etc. I would like to be able to monitor for no activity and when no activity has been detected in X time to be able to raise and alert/snm...
9 months ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Administration & Configuration 1 Planned for future release

Add more functionality to integrate the export/import of individual configuration items with the command line

Currently it is difficult in version 6.1 to export/import individual configuration items in an automated way using a scripted approach, it would be better to have a more granular approach to ease release/migration tasks. For example being able to ...
over 6 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Administration & Configuration 0 Future consideration

Control Center: statRecordIds File

I've been doing some testing with the statRecordIds file on our test environment. Today I realized that more attention needs to be given to this file. You are probably wondering what do I mean? Here is a possible situation below. A site is running...
over 6 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Administration & Configuration 0 Future consideration

SCC request for Blank Passwords in Functional Authorities/User Proxies

We are using ACF2 for our z/OS security package. As such we have batch accounts specifically for connect direct that are set with no passwords and can only be accessed via other secure JCL procedures. As such we can't manage them via the SCC Confi...
over 6 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Administration & Configuration 0 Future consideration

Configuration management should have an approval process for changes

There should be an approval process built into SCC for making changes with the Configure Servers functions. Adding an optional hook to make a call to a change management system for validation would be even better. The change process should include...
over 6 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Administration & Configuration 3 Future consideration