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Sterling Control Center Monitor

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

Sterling Control Center Monitor Oracle RAC cluster enable multiple service names

We understand that we can't configure two database service names via configCC.sh. We would like to raise an enhancement request to update the configuration in the property files to map two different database service names to the same Oracle RAC en...
almost 2 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Administration & Configuration 1 Future consideration

Report duplicated entries in netmap.cfg/userfile.cfg

Currently Control Center does not report duplicated entries added to netmap.cfg/userfile.cfg Connect Direct config files. This causes ambiguity. Duplicates can be reported by cfgcheck on the server but there is no possibility to discover/edit/dele...
almost 2 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Usability 1 Future consideration

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...
almost 2 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Usability 1 Future consideration

Improve Control Center Rule Administration

In Control Center 6.2 rule administration can only be done via the Web console. If a new rule or an existing rule is updated that contains a list of servers, there is not a pick list. There is a search, but each server the user wants to select can...
about 2 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Usability 1 Future consideration

Eliminate the compatibility issue between ICC and Dynatrace monitoring.

The compatibility issue between ICC and Dynatrace prevents use of Control Center Webconsole. Only remediation is to disable the Dynatrace UI agent on the application node. We use Dynatrace for monitoring of all our Sterling Infrastructure and woul...
about 2 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Usability 2 Future consideration

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 2 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Reporting 2 Future consideration

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 2 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor 2 Future consideration

Control centre to be RAC aware (TAF and TAC)

IBM control center needs to have rac aware features like TAC, TAF to enable database maintainence without causing an outage to the app. This will enable handoff patching / automated rolling patching for databases.
over 2 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Technology Stack Support (OS, DB, Protocols) 0 Future consideration

Add the ability to delete expired Secure+ certificates

When there are several hundred servers with expired certificates, it's extremely time consuming to log into each individual C:D node to manually deleted the certificate. The ability to delete old/expired certificates from Control Center will simpl...
over 2 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor 0 Future consideration