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Administration & Configuration

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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...
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Administration & Configuration 1 Future consideration

Control Center Cant Connect to a Authenticated TSL or SSL Database

Cant Connect to a Authenticated TSL or SSL Database
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Administration & Configuration 0 Functionality already exists

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...
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Administration & Configuration 0 Future consideration

Ability to generate alerts only when adapters on all nodes are down.

Currently we have the ability to get notified whenever the adapters are down, however we need to get alerts only when all the adapters in a cluster are down rather than getting notified when an adapter on a particular node is down.
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Administration & Configuration 0 Not under consideration

Contol Center needs to have a contingency synchronization function

Control Center needs to have a configuration synchronization feature that keeps all of the non-server specific configuration items in sync with a contingency instance of SCC that is not running but shares a synchronized database. Manually copying ...
almost 7 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...
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Administration & Configuration 3 Future consideration

Add enhancement for Control Center Wildcard slc's to be able to use source files

Add a field to wildcard slc's for source file. I know that in order to monitor a source file workflow slc's can be used. Our team has tried to utilize workflow slc's in the past, but they seem to be problematic for us.
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Administration & Configuration 0 Functionality already exists

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.
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Administration & Configuration 0 Future consideration

Centralized password file for Control Center connection IDs

The connection ID and password has to be configured for each Connect:Direct node added to Control Center. The password in use has to be changed on a regular basis requiring that all nodes using that particular ID and password be touched on a month...
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Administration & Configuration 0 Not under consideration

Improve Control Center Calendars

There needs to be more flexibility with Control Center calendars. Let's say for example, I need a calendar for January, April, July, and October to be daily. The way calendar maintenance currently works, if I select all of the active days for thos...
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Administration & Configuration / Usability 0 Planned for future release