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Sterling Control Center Monitor

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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...
over 5 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Administration & Configuration 1 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.
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Reporting 0 Future consideration

Automated Cognos reconfiguration for High Availability

Installing ICC in a High Availability environment requires steps taken to reconfigure Cognos as detailed here: https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SS4Q96_6.1.1/com.ibm.help.scc.install.doc/scc_ensure_cognos_server_connection_HA.html Thes...
over 5 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Installation & Upgrade 2 Not under consideration

Monitored File Agents - Notification needed for "error in container"

The File Agent CDFA.log reports "error in container" messages in the log. We would like an associated message ID to be assigned to this so that a Control Center email notification can be set up. This will help our team clean up various File Agents...
about 1 year ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Reporting 0 Future consideration

Linux systemd IBM Control Center auto boot system unit file

Develop and test example IBM Control Center linux autoboot systemd control script since systemd is replacing init.d for RHEL 7 and other linux distributions.
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Installation & Upgrade 0 Future consideration

More Robust Search Options in SCC web client

In the Sterling Control Center Web Client, under the Monitor, Completed File Transfers screen... We would like to see more robust search criteria. Currently it is allowing us to search based on data, server, filename and status. Our biggest use of...
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Usability 0 Planned for future release

Control Center authentication and control

For shops that are not using IBM Sterling External Authentication Server to authenticate to Control Center and are using the Control Center authentication, there is currently no way to set an expiration period for a user's password or forcing the ...
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Security 0 Future consideration

User should be able to use variable in Send email >To field under the action.

Currently, we are only able to provide mail ids only when we create the action in Control Center Monitor. IN our project, we are using meta data and we want to use the meta data variable in Send email so that as per server, email should get to own...
about 1 year ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Usability 1 Planned for future release

Timezone conversion/formatting for time-related variables

We are testing Control Center for monitoring and managing C:D server, and one of the inconvenience we encountered was the lack of formatting options for time-related variables (event elements). To elablorate, we tried to set up rules and actions t...
about 1 year ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Reporting 5 Planned for future release

Add support to multiple DB service

Hi Team, Our DBA pattern for oracle databases is to have two separate data bases in two data centers with its own host and service name. The current configCC.sh doesnt support entering two service names during the config. if we do have such capabi...
over 2 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Administration & Configuration 0 Not under consideration