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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...
about 1 year ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Usability 1 Future consideration

Duplicate rules and/or actions in Control Center 6.2.1

Prior to version 6.2, rules and/or actions could be duplicated by using the classic console. During the duplication action, the user changes the necessary information in order to make the new rule/action unique. I don't see a way to do this in ver...
about 1 year ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Usability 1

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...
about 1 year 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...
about 1 year ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Reporting 2 Future consideration

Microsoft Defender Endpoint on ICC application

Oue security team reached out to us to verify if the new Security migration (enterprise endpoint protection software from Symantec Endpoint Protection to Microsoft Defender Endpoint) impacts ICC application in any way and reference case: TS008480275
over 1 year ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Security 0 Not under consideration

Certificate Expiration Warning for File Agent

Our team is currently looking into the use of certificate authentication with File Agent. I don't think that Control Center will have any visibility to when the certificate expires. We need Control Center to be able to report on this.
over 1 year ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Reporting 2 Not under consideration

Consolidate all ICC admin functionality under Web Console.

Currently functions in ICC such as creating SLC's for all types other then simple SLC and creating/managing DVGs all must be done through the Classic Console. Besides the inconvenience of switching back and forth between the Web Console and Classi...
over 1 year ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Usability 1

Add ability to monitor Connect:Direct I5 on any selected port.

Due to CIP mandate, Cigna is disabling all unencrypted ports and we need the ability to select an SSL encrypted port in SCC to monitor I5 Connect:Direct nodes. SCC currently monitors I5 nodes on default ports and current default unencrypted ports ...
over 1 year ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Security 1 Planned for future release

Credential enumeration

Credential enumeration occurs when an attacker can determine the validity of credentials by observing responses in the application and identifying differences between correct and incorrect responses. Attackers may be able to use this vulnerability...
over 1 year ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Security 1 Planned for future release

Any configuration information stored in the CCM database must be encrypted

Requirement stated by customer that all configured objects in the database must be encrypted. This includes audit information and any information containing IPs, host names and passwords. Whole-disk encryption, SAN storage encryption, and database...
over 1 year ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor 2 Future consideration