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Network Management System (NMS)

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Alerts to trigger when condition has remained continuously active for 48 hours.

We need the alert to trigger only when a particular condition has remained continuously active for 48 hours. However, we’ve observed that the alert policy’s evaluation window is capped at a maximum of 120 minutes.
3 days ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 0 Submitted

Make SevOne SSO fully resilient so authentication continues to work automatically during leader failover without manual reconfiguration

SevOne removed support for RADIUS/TACACS in recent versions, leaving LDAP (resilient but weak/single‑factor) and SSO (strong but not resilient).Currently, SevOne SSO breaks during cluster leader failover and requires manual reconfiguration of both...
5 days ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 1 Under review

The return of global search

This would apply to either NMS or DI. Previously NMS had a global search bar available in the top header of the NMS GUI. This search was insanely useful to us as we would troubleshoot customer issues, or work through problems with devices. Since w...
8 days ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 2 Future consideration

There should be a v3 API endpoint to run a ping command from any peer to a device

The ability to specify a specific peer to ping an arbitrary device by id, name or management address would be helpful for process automation, particularly for very large scale SevOne clusters. It's not clear what part of the API schema it should b...
11 days ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 0 Future consideration

Provide safe way to execute certain tasks which had been automated prior to 7.0 as a root user

Root access removed in NMS 7.0+ breaks customer automation workflows, particularly certificate renewal automation. As certificate lifecycles decrease, manual renewal becomes unsustainable without a least-privilege alternative. Operational Risk Cer...
17 days ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 4 Needs more information

Role based access to device groups.

The request is to have the possibility to selectively assign access/privileges to device groups to different users/users groups/tenants. More details in the video attached.
23 days ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 2 Future consideration

Alert Correlation Across Object Types in SevOne

Currently, SevOne does not allow the creation of alert policies where conditions are applied across different object types. As a result, we are unable to achieve alert correlation within SevOne. Could you please confirm if this functionality can b...
25 days ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 1 Future consideration

Export metadata attribute values in SDP configuration

Datapoint Enrichment may be in avro and json format. Since json format is selected we cannot include any other field except contained in default /config/sdp/schema.json file. So to include metadata attributes in the report generated from Kafka an ...
29 days ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 0 Future consideration

Download as PDF option should be available for Object Summary as well

Sometimes it happens that the user gets much detailed information from object summary page. If the detail is related to a specific object like class statistics, network statistics, post and pre statistics etc can be seen only in a single page. Thi...
about 1 month ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 1 Future consideration

Improvements to alert generation and storage tracking would help prevent high alert count based performance impacts.

A significant factor in SevOne cluster performance is the size of the alerts table.SevOne identifies 2 million alerts as the benchmark point for when negative impacts to performance may be seen.However, there is no warning or alerting mechanism fo...
about 1 month ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 4 Under review