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Sterling Control Center Monitor

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Let Control Center have the ability to monitor critical database system events on a monitored SI server

Today, if a B2BI node looses its connection to the database server, it sends out an email. I would like Control Center to have the ability to detect if that event has occurred and send out an alert.
over 5 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Other 3 Future consideration

LDAP integration with Sterling Control Center

Sterling Control Center should be able to interface directly with LDAP to authenticate without the addition of Sterling External Authentication Server.
about 6 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Security 3 Not under consideration

Ability to pass custom alerts to SCC from B2Bi

This is for the ability to send custom alerts to SCC from B2Bi/SFG systems. A service should be designed for use in business processes to allow information to be passed into SCC.
about 6 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Usability 0 Not under consideration

FileGatewayDeliverFTP business process failure not generating alerts in Sterling Control Center

->FileGatewayDeliverFTP business process failure not generating alerts in Sterling Control Center Comments from IBM: Control Center does not monitor system level BPs, and that is by design. The customer can open an enhancement if they desire an...
about 6 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Other 0 Future consideration

Add DVG and submitter ID fields to All File Transfer Services APIs in Control Center 6.1

Requesting to add submitter and data visibility group (DVG) to all file transfer services APIs, especially Get Completed Files List and Read FileTransfers. Current APIs are limited and there is no way to restrict the return results per partner/sub...
about 6 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / APIs & SDKs 1 Planned for future release

Operating System version to be collected by ICC and displayed.

Currently Control Center shows the Operating system as UNIX, Windows etc. It would be more beneficial if Control Center could display the actual OS version , eg Windows 2012, RedHat 6.8.
almost 5 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Administration & Configuration 1 Future consideration

Add the Tag Mapping Labels to the Search Filter

Control Center 6.1.1.0 iFix03. When you create a tag mapping and tag label, the label only displays in the view column. When you select the add filter, the drop down displays as Tag1 Tag2 etc. So only administrator of the application know what the...
over 5 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Administration & Configuration 0 Future consideration

IBM Control Center Monitor Traffic from SSP

Right now Control Center lacks the functionality to be able to monitor file transfer traffic within SSP.
about 6 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Reporting 0 Future consideration

Undertake housekeeping for all database tables

Under ICC database tuning, there is a comment that indicates that records need to be manually pruned from a number of tables: The CC_PROCESS, CC_PROCESS_DVG, CC_FILE_TRANSFER, and CC_FILE_TRANSFER_DVG tables contain the summarized information f...
about 5 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Performance 1 Functionality already exists

Need to have an override property file to prevent wipe of customized settings

With higher volume customers it is common to require customization to property files, especially engine.properties and Engine.log4j. However, with application of an iFix or FixPack (or upgrade), there is a risk that these settings will be lost. B2...
about 5 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Administration & Configuration 1 Future consideration