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My ideas: Sterling Control Center Monitor

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Add Consolidated Monitoring functionality in Sterling Control Centre

ICC doesn't seem to have the functionality to perform a consolidated monitoring where if a voilation occurs multiple times within a specified time for example - Alert when voilation occurs 'n' number of times for x times in last y mins.

Control Center needs the ability to pull account passwords from a corporate password manager/vault

Due to security requirements and best practices, passwords should be changed periodically and wherever possible, should not be stored on local systems in text/XML files, etc. Control Center should have an option to utilize external Password Vault ...
almost 4 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Security 2 Delivered

automate updating of DB password in CCM

Passwords are periodically rotated and we want to avoid any issues during the manual update and automate the task. We have the script available in ../utils/runConfigCCSample.sh, but its updating all configuration parameters. We need to alter the s...

ICC Support of SMTP with SSL/TLS encryption

Most modern SMTP Service require SMTP/s to leverage their services. IBM B2Bi supports this but ICC does not. This makes it hard to find an SMTP service that meets or clients email needs.

Control Center Rule Correlation

Two of the things we utilize Control Center for is SLC notification and processes that do not end successfully. We have some transmissions that are monitored on SLCs that are contractual (sla). We do get an alert if the sla transmission has not st...
about 4 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor 4 Delivered

Monitoring SEAS/SSP certificates

For now, Control Center Monitor able to monitor the certificates in CD and ICC certificates. It will be useful if we can monitor the B2Bi SEAS and SSP certificates also.

Cognos using ICC issued certificate

We are required to use certificates issued by Boeing Certificate Authority and not the certificate that is generated by ICC.
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Administration & Configuration 3 Delivered

Passing B2Bi Process data to SCC

SCC currently can import a single item from B2Bi Process Data. However, with the use of an Xpath statement multiple process data items can be concatenated into a single string item with optional delimiters or other markers. Sadly, SCC does not hav...
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Usability 0 Delivered

Control Center to provide a traffic summary report with total number of files sent/received by a customer/vendor/partner.

We could use a feature in Control Center where it tracks the total number of transfers by endpoint or partner. We have a business need to know how many transfers we completed with a partner for a given month.
9 months ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Usability 2 Delivered

Requesting Automated method of running configCC for a "silent" configuration following silent install for multiple machines

When installing SCC/IBM Control Center 6.1.0.0 on RHEL, I noticed that while there is a "silent" installation option that will allow for more automation, there is no corresponding option for configuration. Running the exportConfig script gets you ...
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Installation & Upgrade 4 Delivered