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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.
3 months ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Administration & Configuration 2 Needs more information

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.
4 months ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Reporting 3 Not under consideration

High Watermark Report

How about adding the high watermark report back to the web client for 6.3. I have to launch the thick client to be able to run this report.
4 months ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Reporting 1 Planned for future release

Disable concurrent user login in SCC

As per Bank security team, Concurrent logins should not be allowed. If the user is login via different machines or different browsers then the old session should be destroyed. As per them, we need to have this feature in the product or commitment ...
4 months ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Security 2 Planned for future release

Control center rule mute option for specific timestamp

We want IBM control center monitor to not send alert during daily restart of SFG nodes.
4 months ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Usability 0 Under review

More Robust Alerting Options

Currently using out-of-the-box functionality, we can send e-mail alerts or use sms messages to our phones based on the criteria we enter in rules/actions. E-mails are well and good, but for system outages, we prefer sms messaging. Unfortunately, o...
5 months ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Other 0 Under review

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...
6 months ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / APIs & SDKs 0 Under review

Improve startWebAppServer.bat

On Windows, when the startWebAppServer.bat is executed from CMD, it doesn't close. If the window is closed, this will stop the web server for that EP. The only way I found that works is that when our team runs the startWebAppServer.bat, we disconn...

Keep Filters When Switching from Active Monitor to Queued Activity Monitory or any monitor

Our users often switch from the Active Monitor to Queued Activity Monitor and vice versa often. The user may have certain items filtered in the Active Monitor and then if they switch to the Queued Activity Monitor and back to the Active Monitor, t...
8 months ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Usability 1 Future consideration

Add Columns to the User and Roles section.

I would like to be able to see the User Description when I am looking at the User and Roles section. In our shop, we use the User Description for enter the person's name. This can be much different when compared to their userid. Adding the User De...
9 months ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Usability 1 Planned for future release