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Sterling Control Center Monitor

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Create alert if the adapters do not come up after SI server comes back up.

It is critical for us when the SI app server comes up after being down or after patching to know if the required MQ adapters, Http server and Http Client adapters come up as expected. We want to be alerted if the MQ adapters and HTTP Server and HT...
10 months ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Other 2 Under review

Show product version for servers added/monitored via OSA REST APIs

CCM/D currently shows the product version of monitored products i.e. SFG and C:D but it doesn't show for products monitored using the OSA i.e. SSP/SEAS. The OSA REST APIs should extract the version from the relevant events and make this available ...
4 months ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Reporting 0 Submitted

Provide additional filters for dashboard widgets

Operational users at large, especially global, customers want to be able to quickly see the status of their transfers and infrastructure for subsets of the whole. Whilst the file transfer widget supports filtering by server group this is not an op...
4 months ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Usability 0 Under review

Control Center Certificate Expiration Warning Notification

The Certificate Expiration warning rule that comes with Control Center produces a warning if a Connect Direct Secure Plus certificate is going to expire within 60 days. However, there is no known notification for Control Center's certificate which...
about 4 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Security 8 Functionality already exists

Control Center Monitor should alert us when connectivity is lost between SI and MQ server

We want to be alerted by Control Center Monitor if connectivity is lost between SI and MQ server.
8 months ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Other 1 Under review

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 3 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Technology Stack Support (OS, DB, Protocols) 1 Planned for future release

Replication Statistics For Global Mailbox

Global Mailbox should be able to out-of-the-box provide specific details on replication between DCs. I should be able to easily find out baseline statistics for replication time between servers. I should be able to see counts for how many files ar...
over 1 year ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor 6 Under review

Adding new indexes to database for enhancing performance.

The current DB settings seems to be insufficient for production environment. The performance dramatically enhanced after adding them during DB analysis made by our DBA team. I have raised TS001613070, and IBM Support agreed to add these indexes bu...
over 6 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Performance 2 Functionality already exists

ICC New datetime field - Custom API

The bank is trying to leverage the ICC SLC process to track whether a file has met its SLC.We are having applications (ie. SFG components and other custom applications) raising MQ events with time stamp to start and end SLC of a file.We then wrote...
about 6 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Reporting 0 Not under consideration

Allow alerts dashboard widget to filter by event type

The alerts dashboard widget needs to be able to filter by event type. Customer wants to see the SLC alerts on the alert dashboard.
5 months ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Usability 0 Planned for future release