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Sterling Control Center Monitor

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Control Center OpenVMS Support

We would like IBM Control Center to be able to monitor and manage C:D nodes on the OpenVMS platform.
over 6 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Usability 0 Not under consideration

Add Control Center functionality to monitor MQ MFT server over encrypted channel

Add functionality for Control Center to monitor MQ MFT servers over an encrypted channel.Any connections between Control Center and a monitored server regardless of type should allow for encrypted communications.
over 6 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Security 0 Planned for future release

SCC - Suppress Multiple Alerts For Same Issue

I had read Watson Idea WSCCC-I-205 which indicated that this functionality already exists, but it didn't provide any details. I created a case to get more details, and instead of more details, I was told to come back here and create a new idea. Ca...
2 months ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Other 0 Under review

Metrics API enhancement

We are attempting to add metrics data to an internal application for monitoring the sterling environment and currently the REST api does not contain any endpoints that would allow us access to the data tha currently backs the Active Alerts, Transf...
2 months ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / APIs & SDKs 2 Functionality already exists

Monitored File Agents - Notification needed for "error in container"

The File Agent CDFA.log reports "error in container" messages in the log. We would like an associated message ID to be assigned to this so that a Control Center email notification can be set up. This will help our team clean up various File Agents...
7 months ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Reporting 0 Future consideration

User should be able to use variable in Send email >To field under the action.

Currently, we are only able to provide mail ids only when we create the action in Control Center Monitor. IN our project, we are using meta data and we want to use the meta data variable in Send email so that as per server, email should get to own...
8 months ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Usability 1 Planned for future release

I would like to see control center monitor use active directory as an authenticator vs just SQL authentication when connecting to a MSSQL database

For security reasons we don't use SQL Authentication for local accounts. We use domain service accounts. We would like to see the CC adopt this option for authentication.
8 months ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Security 1 Not under 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...
8 months ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Reporting 5 Planned for future release

B2Bi AS2 infoarmation is not sent to IBM Contol Center

Hi Team, we would like to monitor the as2 files details in ICC control center but as of now we got to know from IBM PMR that most of the AS2 is in system BP's which is not sent to CCM, CCM will really only see the HTTP protocol session. All you ha...
10 months ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Other 0 Future consideration

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.
about 1 year ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Administration & Configuration 4 Not under consideration