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Report duplicated entries in netmap.cfg/userfile.cfg

Currently Control Center does not report duplicated entries added to netmap.cfg/userfile.cfg Connect Direct config files. This causes ambiguity. Duplicates can be reported by cfgcheck on the server but there is no possibility to discover/edit/dele...
over 3 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Usability 1 Future consideration

Make timestamps for events more readable

Currently, when browsing Control Center for any given server, when viewing Processes, File Transfers, Alerts, Events, or Completed File Agent Activity, the timestamps for the last 24 hours of processes are given in how much time has passed since t...
almost 3 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Usability 0 Planned for future release

User Permission in Registry manipulierbar

Hallo, bei einem ConnectDirect Penetration-Test ist folgendes kritisiert worden: Die Berechtigungen, welche in Connect:Direct unter Functional Authorities vergeben wurden, waren in der Registry in Klartext gespeichert. Beispielsweise ist hier zu s...
9 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Administration & Configuration 2 Future consideration

CDWS - certificate-based authentication - CLIENT certificate differentiation

We use standard connection path for certificate-based authentication: CLIENT (for example curl command) -> CDWS (CD Web Services) -> CD (Connect Direct) Let's assume that: CLIENT uses client certificate with CNAME=cert1 CDWS server uses cert...
over 3 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / APIs & SDKs 1 Planned for future release

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...
9 months ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Usability 0 Under review

Support Alma 8

support Alma8 for AWS deployments and open source deployments
over 1 year ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Technology Stack Support (OS, DB, Protocols) 4 Not under consideration

Add slc notes to be displayed as part of an SLC alert

A note section was added to Control Center slc's as part of an enhancement request. This is very useful and beneficial to the team that is responsible for monitoring Control Center alerts. However, the team is asking if the notes could be part of ...
about 3 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Usability 2 Future consideration

Multiple Configuration Support for Integrated File Agent

I don't think Integrated File Agent currently supports or allows multiple File Agent configurations. Having this capability would support organization and separation of work. We currently use Integrated File Agent with our AWS ec2 instances. Havin...
9 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Administration & Configuration 4 Future consideration

CDWebServices to allow separate WebInterface and RestAPI installations

Allow more individualized and specialized architecture implementations of CDWS by making separate component (or making them selectable/optional) installations for both the Web interface and the RestAPI components.Look into including the RestAPI's ...
over 4 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Installation & Upgrade 1 Planned for future release

Add time zone to Connect Direct logs

Add time zone information to Connect Direct logs. Log file should present the datetime/timestamp in unambiguous fashion.
almost 4 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Reporting 1 Functionality already exists