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Network Management System (NMS)

Improve SNMP walk API endpoint in SevOne NPM

There should be a v3 API endpoint to run a SNMP walk command from any peer to a device. Enhancing /api/v3/metadata/devices/snmpwalk might work for this purpose. Currently, it does not take a peer ID as an argument. The ability to specify a specifi...
5 days ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) Submitted

"Di Device Summary" Customize or Disable

The "Device Summary" option works fine in a "small environment". When there are thousands of devices / thousands of objects for a device this functionality is incredibly painful. Either it should be able to be customized or disabled completely. Fo...
7 days ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) Submitted

Support for GCP PubSub in addition to Kafka on SevOne Data Publisher

We would like to make use of the performance data exposure using a message bus for northbound data transfer . It is much cheaper to use Google PubSub instead of a managed kafka instance . We would like IBM to develop an SDK/gRPC based PubSub conne...
11 days ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) Needs more information

Flow Reporting - Global Report Filters

We require the ability for an admin to create a complex flow filter or like, and make it available to any user running a flow report. So we want to see traffic between this "complex rule" and "another complex rule" where a complex rule for example...
11 days ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) Submitted

Reachability Metric

SevOne has a unique way of providing "Availability". What is desperately required is a "Reachability" metric that is just a basic snmp test that quickly highlights "possible network issue, device is down, credentials incorrect etc (and done from t...
11 days ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) Needs more information

Enable monitoring of interface flapping.

Clients can monitor for interface integrity.
13 days ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) Under review

Platform Clustering (S1NPM-109893 / S1NPM-110145) — Request: Configurable SelfMon Cluster Member Auto‑Discovery (Enable/Disable Toggle)

IBM introduced an enhancement where SelfMon automatically discovers all members of the cluster. In the current implementation, this behavior appears to be always enabled and there is no supported way to disable it. This is impacting/breaking our o...
19 days ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) Needs more information

Timer threshold for SNMP Traps

Avoid flooding of alerts based on a flapping link (example)
20 days ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) Future consideration

Clear message on SNMP Traps

When an SNMP trap arrives we can get emails based on the Trap getting triggered but we cannot get email notifications when the corresponding clear trap arrives. This makes parsing events difficult when looking for the "up" linked to a "down" event...
20 days ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) Is a defect

Add STARTTLS Support for SMTP Security Configuration

At present, the SMTP security dropdown provides only SSL and TLS options. Many modern email servers and enterprise security standards require or prefer STARTTLS for SMTP communication, as it allows encryption to be negotiated after an initial unen...
22 days ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) Future consideration