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Sterling Control Center Monitor

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Have Control Center be able to monitor alternate IP addresses for CD fail over servers

Currently when a CD server is defined on Control Center only one IP address can be listed. We have some failover servers where the name of the Connect Direct is the same, but if the primary goes down and the failover comes up, Control Center canno...
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Usability 1 Future consideration

SCC reporting limitation needs to be greatly increased or removed

Currently, when running Cognos based reporting through SCC, there is a hard limit of 5000 records being returned. We need this increased since some days we have more than 100k files transferred or alerts that need to be reported for a time period ...
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Reporting 1 Not under consideration

Add enhancement for Control Center Wildcard slc's to be able to use source files

Add a field to wildcard slc's for source file. I know that in order to monitor a source file workflow slc's can be used. Our team has tried to utilize workflow slc's in the past, but they seem to be problematic for us.
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Administration & Configuration 0 Functionality already exists

Dynamic content and recipient for SCC email based Actions

A B2Bi process has an onFault which sets some email content in process data , and a second assign sets the email recipient . SCC should be able to use these bits of data to dynamically create the alert email.
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Administration & Configuration 0 Future consideration

Want to create email notification if Active Alert queue has exceeded the limit

I have looked throught the available message ID's for Control Center rules to see if it is possible to setup a rule in which I could create  an email notification of the Active Alert queue limit has exceeded and I did not s...
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Other 1 Not under consideration

Centralized password file for Control Center connection IDs

The connection ID and password has to be configured for each Connect:Direct node added to Control Center. The password in use has to be changed on a regular basis requiring that all nodes using that particular ID and password be touched on a month...
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Administration & Configuration 0 Not under consideration

Control Center 6.0 and 6.1 - Enhance Connect Direct Process Details Report

I noticed that the Connect Direct Process Details report does not display the source file. Please add this as an available column. This is helpful information especially when the source file may be a gdg or have a date and time stamp. I realize th...
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Reporting 0 Future consideration

Improve Control Center Calendars

There needs to be more flexibility with Control Center calendars. Let's say for example, I need a calendar for January, April, July, and October to be daily. The way calendar maintenance currently works, if I select all of the active days for thos...
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Administration & Configuration / Usability 0 Planned for future release

Unlimited timeout for a user on Web Dashboard

Our 24/7 monitoring needs all dashboards running all time; so no logout or timeout for a given user.Please make this functionality available for web based dashboards for Control center.
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Administration & Configuration 0 Functionality already exists

Control Center 6.1 - Conf Migrated from other server - EP's from old server

When a Control Center 6.1 configuration that has multiple EP's that is migrated to a new server, the EP's from the old server appear in the new setup. Why can't the EP's from the old configuration be deleted during installation or by running the c...
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Administration & Configuration 1 Not under consideration