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Sterling Control Center Monitor

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Sterling Control Center v5.4.2 ER for catalina.out Logging

Original issue:Problem titlecatalina.out filled file system.Problem descriptionCatalina.out file filled file system and was at 101G in size. File hadto be removed to do anything on system.
over 6 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Other 0 Not under consideration

Automated pausing of node monitoring.

Automated pausing feature needs to be developed to automatically pause/suspend monitoring of mutiple Connect:Direct node groups during datacetner swithover/failover. WIthin automated process individual nodes or node groups must be configurable. Th...
over 6 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Administration & Configuration 0 Future consideration

SCC should secure Cognos using the same certificates as the SCC application by default

The integrated Cognos instance in SCC should be secured using the same certificate stores as the SCC application itself. I should not use a CAMUSER certificate signed by CA as the default when SCC has been secured using private certificates. This ...
over 6 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Installation & Upgrade 2 Not under consideration

Ability to generate alerts only when adapters on all nodes are down.

Currently we have the ability to get notified whenever the adapters are down, however we need to get alerts only when all the adapters in a cluster are down rather than getting notified when an adapter on a particular node is down.
over 6 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Administration & Configuration 0 Not under consideration

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...
over 6 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Usability 1 Future consideration

Allow Admin User To Act As Non-Admin User

As a Control Center admin, I can see all activity while signed in with my own credentials. To troubleshoot incidents for other users, it is advantageous to sign in with the same credentials they have so that I can see things from their points of v...
over 6 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Usability 0 Future consideration

User management between SCC and Cognos

As of today, the user management for Cognos is done through a java security call to SCC, that provides dummy user/password to be able to run report. We do not have the possibility to create users in SCC that can connect to the cognos dispatcher, a...
over 6 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Reporting 1 Not under 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 ...
over 6 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Reporting 1 Not under consideration

Contol Center needs to have a contingency synchronization function

Control Center needs to have a configuration synchronization feature that keeps all of the non-server specific configuration items in sync with a contingency instance of SCC that is not running but shares a synchronized database. Manually copying ...
over 6 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Administration & Configuration 0 Future consideration

Configuration management should have an approval process for changes

There should be an approval process built into SCC for making changes with the Configure Servers functions. Adding an optional hook to make a call to a change management system for validation would be even better. The change process should include...
over 6 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Administration & Configuration 3 Future consideration