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PINNED Present Multiple Host Keys - RSA and ECDSA
As with standard Linux servers today Secure Proxy should be able to present Host Keys (more than one) in both RSA and ECDSA formats depending on what type the vendor incoming connection supports. Vendors are demanding Host Keys that are stronger t...
PINNED Add support to controllerWorkflow script to restart BPs that are in "completed, error" state by individual BP IDs
During system issues, we are unable to bulk restart the BP IDs at a time. This is causing huge support effort in the clean-up process. Existing controllerWorkflow.sh script doesn't have a solution to restart the BPIDs that are in "completed, error...

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Control Center: File Agent notification for "*** File cannot be processed...May be FTPied in... ***"

Need File Agent notification for "*** File cannot be processed...May be FTPied in... ***" situation.
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Reporting 0 Future consideration

IBM Control Center variable to get the IP of the B2Bi Node.

Hi Team, Is there any variable in IBM control center6.0 by which we can get the IP Address of Server/Sterling B2Bi Node? For suppose, I have installed B2Bi into 10.11.12.13 and node name is node1. While sending an alert mail to admin team I would ...
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Administration & Configuration 1 Functionality already exists

How to control the return URL of reports submitted to Cognos from IBM Control Center

When submitting a report in Control Center, or when opening a Cognos Studio session, the URL comes back to the client workstation with the server name and tries to connect on port 9300. How can this be configured to not expose the host name?
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Reporting 0 Not under consideration

Sterling Control Center interface with Enterprise Cognos BI

Currently SCC only utilizes it's own Cognos BI. Should be able to interface with Enterprise Cognos BI.
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Administration & Configuration 1 Not under consideration

Control Center List processes in Rules

In an environment like ours, we have numerous file transmissions that are monitored by Control Center. There are several process names that we ignore by having a rule where the action = no operation. One option is to build multiple rules that are ...
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Usability 0 Future consideration

Oracle Scan Listener with RAC Oracle 11g

Problem titleSCAN Listener for Oracle RAC Configuration in SCC.Problem descriptionWe are using Oracle 11g with RAC. The way our company supports RAC is using Oracle Scan (Scan Listener) which we recently learned is not supported with 11.2.04. We n...
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Technology Stack Support (OS, DB, Protocols) 0 Functionality already exists

Control Center Cant Connect to a Authenticated TSL or SSL Database

Cant Connect to a Authenticated TSL or SSL Database
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Administration & Configuration 0 Functionality already exists

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

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...
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Usability 0 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