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Sterling Control Center Monitor

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Metrics API enhancement

We are attempting to add metrics data to an internal application for monitoring the sterling environment and currently the REST api does not contain any endpoints that would allow us access to the data tha currently backs the Active Alerts, Transf...
about 1 month ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / APIs & SDKs 2 Functionality already exists

Control center rule mute option for specific timestamp

We want IBM control center monitor to not send alert during daily restart of SFG nodes.
about 1 year ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Usability 1 Functionality already exists

API for Handling Alerts

Please develop an API for handling Control Center alerts. Internal applications that use Control Center data would benefit from this.
over 1 year ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Usability 2 Functionality already exists

Add Servers in Control Center Monitoring to Connect:Direct Web Services Automatically

When utilizing APIs or manual entry of servers to ICC monitoring, have that automatically add the servers to the Connect:Direct Web Services. This will alleviate hours of manual work when onboarding new servers or existing servers to allow for Web...
almost 2 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Usability 1 Functionality already exists

Configuring alerts for netmap and secure plus changes

Configuring alerts for netmap node creation, deletion, Initialization Parameter etc.. And secure plus node creation, deletion, key updation.
over 2 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Documentation 2 Functionality already exists

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...
almost 3 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Security 8 Functionality already exists

Improve Control Center email information for CCTR135I

I currently have a rule which reports if an insert to the EVENTS table exceeds 30 seconds. The email generated does not provided which managed server the EP was trying to insert the data for. This information can be found in the engine logs, but i...
about 3 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Reporting 2 Functionality already exists

Add Control Center monitoring capability for DATA EXPRESS OPEN PLATFORM (vendor DATA443)

TSYS recently went through a merger with Global Payments. As a result of the merger, some business/operations functions between the two companies have been consolidated. Global Payments utilizes Data Express Open Platform by DATA443. There is not ...
about 3 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / APIs & SDKs 2 Functionality already exists

B2Bi server down should indicate node ID

When ICC sees that a node went down in B2Bi, it only shows the server name/alias and not the node that went down
over 3 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Usability 4 Functionality already exists

Add Window Tolerance in Minutes capability

Currently in Control Center slc window tolerance, the value is in hours. Although a window tolerance of zero can be selected, a user may want a tolerance that is less than one hour, but not zero. There may be a need to monitor a file for timelines...
over 4 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Usability 2 Functionality already exists