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Sterling Control Center Monitor

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Allow alerts dashboard widget to filter by event type

The alerts dashboard widget needs to be able to filter by event type. Customer wants to see the SLC alerts on the alert dashboard.
13 days ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Usability 0 Planned for future release

Dormancy feature is available at application

Dormancy feature is available at application for User Accounts
2 months ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Security 0 Under review

Control Center Monitor should alert us when connectivity is lost between SI and MQ server

We want to be alerted by Control Center Monitor if connectivity is lost between SI and MQ server.
4 months ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Other 0 Under review

Windows authentication (instead of SQL authentication) for connection to the database

This is a security standard for the Windows platform. Similar to idea SFG-I-324, for Sterling File Gateway, clients are asking about the Windows authentication between CCM/D and the database. Not have this option might be a roadblock for some clie...
6 months ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Security 0 Under review

The default Admin ID to be remove from a future release of software.

During the Control Center installation, admin accounts get created in Control Center, and as per the AXIS security team, there should not be any generic accounts like admin, administrator, etc As per IBM OEM the feasibility of removing the 'adm...

Security Vulnerability Password in Plain text

We have identified a security vulnerability regarding passwords being stored in plain text in the application.Despite the solution provided by IBM not being accepted by the application support team, they have recommended raising an RFE case. ...
8 months ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Security 0 Under review

Script to suppress the alerts during/after the maintenance hours

We CCM running on our environment and monitoring SFG/B2Bi/SEAS/CD components. During weekend maintenance/Disaster recovery Test we need to suppress/clear the alerts in CCM Panel manually. It will be easy if we can schedule a job run a script to cl...

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...
about 1 year 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...
over 1 year ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Reporting 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...
over 1 year ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Reporting 5 Planned for future release