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Sterling Control Center Monitor

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Extend Report formatting options in Cognos to the SCC interface

Report formatting options for page output should be present in SCC and not require the report to be created, scheduled, and then modified manually in Cognos. Page layout, fit to page, and other options should be part of the report definition in SC...
about 7 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Reporting 0 Not under consideration

Ability to view Secure Proxy configurations via Control Center

When the Sterling Secure Proxy platform is connected, need to be able to view the connection information contained within the environment, similar to what is available for Connect:Direct connections. Being able to view the audit log for changes is...
about 7 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Usability 4 Functionality already exists

Secure Connectivity to iSeries C:D Nodes

Currently Control Center doesn't have the capability to logon to iSeries C:D nodes using a secure logon.
about 7 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Usability 1 Planned for future release

Control Center 6.0.0.1 and 6.1: Need support for MS SQL Server (ALWAYSON)

Please test and verify if Control Center 6.0.0.1 and 6.1 can support a MS SQL Server ALWAYSON environment. If not, please add an enhancement for this. Thanks.
about 7 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Administration & Configuration 0 Future consideration

Control Center 6.0.0.1 Support for SQL Server 2014

The detailed system requirements for Control Center 6.0.0.1 only list SQL Server 2008 and 2012. We need support for SQL Server 2014. Thanks.
about 7 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Administration & Configuration 1 Functionality already exists

Ability to Select Statistics via CCAPI directly from monitored Connect:Direct server and not from Control Center database

Currently there is no possibility to display Select Statistics from Connect:Direct node via CCAPI *directly* from Connec:Direct server (it is possible using CDJAI but not CCAPI). Current solution allows to display only those Select Statistics that...
about 7 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / APIs & SDKs 0 Not under consideration

Limit number of alerts for same BP failure

We have set up an alert that sends an email for a Business Process that is processed with errors. At a given time, there may be thousands of failures for the same BP, and we do not want to receive emails for each and every failure of the same kind.
3 months ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Usability 0 Under review

Create alert if the adapters do not come up after SI server comes back up.

It is critical for us when the SI app server comes up after being down or after patching to know if the required MQ adapters, Http server and Http Client adapters come up as expected. We want to be alerted if the MQ adapters and HTTP Server and HT...
5 months ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Other 0 Under review

AD/LDAP authentication in ICC

Currently we are required to use SEAS for LDAP authentication. However, using SEAS as any tool will add more resources to the worker pool. While deploying SEAS does not require a license, there is a cost involved in adding CPU and memory to SEAS P...
7 months ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Security 0 Under review

Ability To Test Actions

After setting up an Action, you are unable to test it without adding it to a rule, and then manually triggering the rule. This is very time consuming when you're trying to verify configuration of the action. I would like there to be a test button ...
about 1 year ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Usability 0 Future consideration