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Sterling Control Center Monitor

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Increase character limit for Description field to more than 255 characters.

We are planning to update description field with multiple characters and then generate the report for dashboard purpose. Customizing the character limit to higher value will help us to add more characters in the description field.
almost 2 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Administration & Configuration 4 Not under consideration

Pause Monitored File Agents when Monitored CD server is paused

Currently when a CD server is paused and if the File Agent has been stopped, the File Agent shows a down status. When a server is paused, the associated File Agents should be paused as well.
almost 2 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Reporting 3 Not under consideration

Control center rule mute option for specific timestamp

We want IBM control center monitor to not send alert during daily restart of SFG nodes.
almost 2 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Usability 1 Functionality already exists

collect ebics client messages from B2BI as a standard protocol

Today only Ebics server messages are collected by ICC. for EBICs client, nothing gets to ICC, and therefore ICC is not supervising and monitoring all standard B2Bi protocols. This has a huge impact as we can't use ICC as a central monitoring solut...
almost 6 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Usability 1 Future consideration

Web Console must filter prior to displaying the stats

Every time I select statistics usinig Web Console, ICC does an initial search with no criteria and it takes more than minutes. After this initial search I can include criteria and make a new search. This approach makes a simple selection of statis...
almost 6 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Performance 0 Planned for future release

We were able to replay the transfer before, and looks like that feature was removed from further versions

We were able to replay the transfer before, and looks like that feature was removed from further versions. We wanted to be able to replay the files from completed file transfers interface.
almost 4 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Usability 2 Not under consideration

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 Password hi...
about 6 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Security 1 Functionality already exists

Ignore case sensitivity when posting to add servers via API. Duplicate servers are currently not checked via case.

ICC Classic Console (java exception) and Web Dashboard when trying to edit a given node seemingly break when duplicate servers are posted that feature unique server IDs in the database but non-unique node details (hostname, node name). This proble...
about 2 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / APIs & SDKs 0 Future consideration

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.
about 4 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...
about 4 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor 0 Planned for future release