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Sterling Control Center Monitor

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The ability to monitor the time frame when no activity has happened.

There are times when Sterling File Gateway gets stuck and stops processing files but no alerts are generated etc. I would like to be able to monitor for no activity and when no activity has been detected in X time to be able to raise and alert/snm...
over 1 year ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Administration & Configuration 1 Planned for future release

Dormancy feature is available at application

Dormancy feature is available at application for User Accounts
6 months ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Security 0 Under review

User disable option in Control Center Monitor

Dear Team, Greetings of the day!! Requesting to add the user disable feature so that when an user who has not logged in since last one month will be disable by the admin for security reasons. We have user update,edit,delete features in version 6.3...
almost 2 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Administration & Configuration 0 Future consideration

Ability to Pause and Un-Pause CD nodes in SCC using runbatch or API

Sterling Control Center should have an sbility to Pause and Un-Pause Connect Direct nodes in SCC using runbatch script and/or using API
over 7 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / APIs & SDKs 1 Functionality already exists

DB2 HADR (ACR) support for ICC and underlying COGNOS

DB2 Clustering (HADR) is well accepted in the DB2 community. SFG has recently added support for the ACR (Automatic Client Reroute) functionality to take advantage of DB2 clusters perss this link:SFG_with_ACR SCC support for DB2 clusters is also n...
over 5 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Technology Stack Support (OS, DB, Protocols) 0 Not under consideration

Report duplicated entries in netmap.cfg/userfile.cfg

Currently Control Center does not report duplicated entries added to netmap.cfg/userfile.cfg Connect Direct config files. This causes ambiguity. Duplicates can be reported by cfgcheck on the server but there is no possibility to discover/edit/dele...
almost 3 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Usability 1 Future consideration

Make timestamps for events more readable

Currently, when browsing Control Center for any given server, when viewing Processes, File Transfers, Alerts, Events, or Completed File Agent Activity, the timestamps for the last 24 hours of processes are given in how much time has passed since t...
over 2 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Usability 0 Planned for future release

SCC does not capture SFG Custom Events

Hi, We have installed ICC 6.1 and we are creating a portal kind of monitoring stuff to monitor all SFG files in ICC Console ( File Monitor). We have created custom events to track additional data in SFG. There are some fields we want to capture fr...
over 7 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Reporting 1 Functionality already exists

ICC Ability To Monitor Cassandra, Zookeeper, Reaper, MQ for Global Mailbox

If we could see application statuses within ICC like we do for Secure Proxy & Global Mailbox (SFG/GM) applications, it would be much easier to troubleshoot issues. ICC should be a true monitoring tool for Global Mailbox, which would include di...
almost 2 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Other 1 Future consideration

Improve the Secure + Key Certificates Report and Trusted Certificates Report

Please add the validity dates (start and expiration) to the Secure + Key Certificates Report and the Trusted Certificates Report. This is useful information that is often needed and would assist in the management of key and trusted certificates.
about 3 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Reporting 5 Planned for future release