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Sterling Control Center Monitor

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Sterling Control Center: Add an overwrite and delete option for Secure Plus trust/keystore cert locations

When SCC is in use for configuring Secure Plus certificates on a CD node the only option available is import. If the certs expire or an import was incorrectly completed there are no options to overwrite or delete the certificate information in SCC...
about 7 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Administration & Configuration 0 Functionality already exists

Add the ability to delete expired Secure+ certificates

When there are several hundred servers with expired certificates, it's extremely time consuming to log into each individual C:D node to manually deleted the certificate. The ability to delete old/expired certificates from Control Center will simpl...
over 3 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor 0 Future consideration

Timezone conversion/formatting for time-related variables

We are testing Control Center for monitoring and managing C:D server, and one of the inconvenience we encountered was the lack of formatting options for time-related variables (event elements). To elablorate, we tried to set up rules and actions t...
almost 2 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Reporting 5 Planned for future release

Add line number column to be used for Active Alerts

On the Active Alerts screen for the Web console there isn't a line/item # column. This exists in version 6.0.0.2 for the Java/Swing console, but not 6.1 and above Web console. Add to user configuration view allowing users to select.
over 3 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Usability 0 Planned for future release

Ability to edit SLC name

Currently if a user wants to change the name of a SLC, it must be duplicated and then a new name can be given and the original slc can be deleted. The SLC name needs to be an editable field to allow updates.
over 3 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Usability 1 Not under consideration

Support for using NoSQL DB's

We are publishing extremely high amount of daily events and moving the data store into a NoSQL type DB would provide greater efficient and search speeds.
about 7 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Technology Stack Support (OS, DB, Protocols) 7 Not under consideration

Control Center does not support the Secure connection with the SMTP server

I installed control center and I can't send email to my user reset the password. My relay only uses TLS protocol.
over 3 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Security 0 Future consideration

Monitor SI schedules and Routing Rules in SCC

Currently SI related schedules and Routing rules does not get monitored in SCC. Some of the SI related schedules are very critical and important for Customer, if that can get disabled then file processing does not happened. Similarly if Routing ru...
over 5 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Reporting 0 Not under consideration

Control Center: Enhance the SLC Summary Report

Please enhance the SLC Summary report so that a server name can be selected. A user may not want a summary of all of the slc, but maybe just the ones from a specific server. Currently no filtering criteria available for this report.
over 7 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Reporting 1 Functionality already exists

Control Center Email Action Ehancement

I recently learned that in a Control Center email action, if the body of the email action is left blank, it will return all of the available variables for the rule parameters you have set. I did some testing where I removed all of the variables I ...
over 7 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Usability 2 Not under consideration