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Sterling Control Center Monitor

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API for Handling Alerts

Please develop an API for handling Control Center alerts. Internal applications that use Control Center data would benefit from this.
over 1 year ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Usability 2 Functionality already exists

Add process name filter

In the Control Center Web console, there is not currently a way to filter by process name. There is for process ID though. Please add a filter for process name.
over 3 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor 1 Future consideration

Allow users to save filters in the Web console

Our operators are responsible for monitoring a particular set of servers. Currently, the users would need to either select the servers they want to monitor Active Alerts and Queued Activity for from the Java swing console or they will need to filt...
over 3 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor 0 Planned for future release

Password Security Controls

Password security controls for ICC administrator/user interface using local authentication are not sufficient: Minimum password length can’t be enforced. Passwords expiration can’t be enforced. Password complexity settings don't exist Passwo...
over 5 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Security 1 Functionality already exists

ICC Database tables which hold summarized data can be partitioned

Encountering performance issues with control center due to having a requirement for a large amount summary data to be available. Given that some of the performance issue are due to long running queries, if the tables holding this data were partiti...
over 5 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Performance 1 Functionality already exists

Capability to Monitor IBM MQ Servers (Not MQ FTE) using IBM Control Center

Could you please add the capability to Monitor IBM MQ Servers using IBM Control Center.
over 3 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Administration & Configuration 0 Not under consideration

Unhandle Alert

Sometimes mistakes happen. A user may accidentally handle an alert. It would be great if an enhancement was added where as long as the handled alert is still present in the Handled Alerts Monitor, the user could then check that handled alert and s...
almost 2 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Usability 1 Future consideration

Add Servers in Control Center Monitoring to Connect:Direct Web Services Automatically

When utilizing APIs or manual entry of servers to ICC monitoring, have that automatically add the servers to the Connect:Direct Web Services. This will alleviate hours of manual work when onboarding new servers or existing servers to allow for Web...
almost 2 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Usability 1 Functionality already exists

Add support for date or variable date to be added to Report names and Email Subjects on Reports

When using Control Center to automate a daily report to provide all the previous days transmission details from our Connect:Direct instance the CC monitors we would like to indicate a date of previous day in the report name created but we could li...
almost 2 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Reporting 2 Future consideration

Add more functionality to integrate the export/import of individual configuration items with the command line

Currently it is difficult in version 6.1 to export/import individual configuration items in an automated way using a scripted approach, it would be better to have a more granular approach to ease release/migration tasks. For example being able to ...
about 6 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Administration & Configuration 0 Future consideration