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Sterling Control Center Monitor

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Add process name filter

In the Control Center Web console, there is not currently a way to filter by process name. There is for process ID though. Please add a filter for process name.
over 4 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor 1 Future consideration

Ignore case sensitivity when posting to add servers via API. Duplicate servers are currently not checked via case.

ICC Classic Console (java exception) and Web Dashboard when trying to edit a given node seemingly break when duplicate servers are posted that feature unique server IDs in the database but non-unique node details (hostname, node name). This proble...
about 2 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / APIs & SDKs 0 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 3 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Usability 1 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...
almost 3 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...
about 3 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor 2 Future consideration

Control Center SLC Holiday Processing

Please add an enhancement for Control Center that will help manage SLC alerting during holidays. Currently, Control Center calendars do not reflect holidays. As a result, the operators may have to handle multiple slc alerts due to processes not ru...
almost 4 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Reporting 3 Future consideration

Secure Connections - Key/Certificate Management

Currently with Control Center a keystore and a truststore have to be setup in order to allow secure connections. Once both have been setup, the configCC.bat or configCC.sh has to be run in order to tell the Control Center application the path loca...
almost 5 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Administration & Configuration 1 Future consideration

Request Control Center to support Korean file name displayed correctly.

Korean file name transfer between ConnectDirect works well. And Korean file names are displayed correctly in the Connect:Direct log. However, Korean file names are not displayed correctly in the Control Center. Please refer to Case TS002022528 ...
almost 5 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Other 0 Future consideration

add column community in the report

Add the column community in the report Sterling File Gateway Route Detail by Producer Report and Sterling File Gateway Route Detail by Consumer Report
almost 5 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Reporting 0 Future consideration

Control Center 6.1+ Control the number of processes, events, and alerts that are display when viewing All servers

In a busy MFT environment, it is very easy for the number of events, processes, and event alerts to reach 10,000. If a curious user clicks on "View all servers", the number of processes, events, and alerts can show to be over 10,000 for all server...
about 5 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor 1 Future consideration