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Network Management System (NMS)

Support the F5-specific implementation of Administrative/Operational status

SevOne is currently unable to determine whether an F5-interface is administratively disabled as sevOne follows the original definitions based on the IF-MIB specifications outlined in RFC 1213. If the OID responses do not correspond to the standard...
3 days ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) Future consideration

Ability to Monitor Memory Metrics Per Container /Pod

We recently ran into an issue where the Wifi Collector was running into a memory management issue. This raised the following questions, and these were the answers we got back from support Are memory utilization metrics available for the WiFi colle...
18 days ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) Future consideration

Global 'Search Box'

Before we upgrade to 8.1.2, we have global search box at the landing page. it is very useful for users to search for interface based on IP address.
2 months ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) Future consideration

Webhooks Caching on Upstream System Failure

If a webhook is failing to the northbound system, for example to Cloud Pak for AIOPS, there is no re-attempt from SevOne to resend the webhook as the behavior of Webhook is fire and forget. This presents a challenge as we will be monitoring over 5...
3 months ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) Future consideration

Webhook Failure Visibility

If a webhook is failing to the northbound system, for example to Cloud Pak for AIOPS, there is no method to know about this issue within the SevOne UI. This idea is to have an Alert created in the Alerts dashboard if a webhook fails so there is vi...
3 months ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) Future consideration

SHA-256 or greater support for trapv3 on SevOne

Security requirement to have SHA-256 or greater for SevOne trapv3, currently SHA-1 has been identified is being weak auth protocol
3 months ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) Future consideration

Synthetic Indicators Max Value Expression Field

Currently, per TAC, the Max Value Expression field is NOT a max value for the expression value result but instead a method for calculating the value. To me this is extrreemly misleading. When I think "Max value expression" I think this is what the...
3 months ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) Future consideration

Alert Webhook "sent" verification

My customer had an incident where they did not think they were receiving Webhooks from SevOne trap Alerts in their PagerDuty system. In the end, the issue was a disabled usergroup in PagerDuty that was causing the issue and "hiding" the webhooks i...
3 months ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) Future consideration

Enable Application-Level Message Batching in SevOne Data Publisher (SDP) for Array-of-JSON Format

Problem Statement Current Behavior: SevOne Data Publisher (SDP) currently sends one data point per message to Kafka/Pulsar/Event Hub publishers. While Kafka has protocol-level batching for network efficiency, consumers still receive individual JSO...
3 months ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) Future consideration

Need an all in one ICMP / SNMP combined availability test

the Device Unavailability by plugin would provide some insight that I have been needing for years. When trying to use this feature it does not appear to work as documented
3 months ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) Future consideration