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Sterling Control Center Monitor

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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...
over 4 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...
almost 5 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor 1 Future consideration

Add an indicator on the Web Console for Connect Direct that would show as to whether it has Secure + or not

Adding a Secure + indicator to the Web console would be beneficial in that it would provide a more complete picture.
almost 5 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Security / Usability 0 Future consideration

Enhancement to Server Inventory Report - Add File Agent version

I think it would be useful if the version of File Agent that is being used for a Connect Direct server (Windows or UNIX) be displayed on this report as well. Especially for Connect Direct Windows because File Agent is still a separate component.
almost 5 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Reporting 0 Future consideration

Dynamically assign email id

Currently in SCC, while creating the Action, we have to enter the email id, so this email id ix fixed for all the related rules. However if we can have option to assign the email id dynamically then we can send the file alert to concerned partne...
about 5 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Administration & Configuration 0 Future consideration

Allow Control Center to authenticate to Connect:Direct using Kerberos.

Allow Control Center to authenticate to Connect:Direct using Kerberos.
about 5 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor 1 Future consideration

Monitor File Agent separate from C:D monitoring

Today the ICC monitor the File Agent through a Connect:Direct node. Customer has the need to monitor File Agent separated from C:D monitoring.
about 5 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Administration & Configuration 0 Future consideration