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Network Management System (NMS)

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Replace VIP implementation with Keepalived

The current implementation of VIP management has some implementation limitations, is prone to breaking especially in split-brain situations. In a way it's also reinventing the wheel. Everything we already do with the VIP implementation can be done...
2 days ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 1 Under review

Delta needs an Bulk Data Query endpoints in the SevOne V3 API for Alert and Device Updates as well as bulk gets for Device level metadata..

Right now, When Concert Workflows needs to make updates to NMS based Alerts, it requires Concert to send multiple individual alert updates via the V3 API. This creates a heavy resource burden on the back end of NMS due to the large number of requi...
10 days ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 0 Future consideration

Alert Clear Time, needs to be added to the V3 API or as a column natively displayed within Data Insight

Right now, A customer when using Data Insight or querying the SevOne API cannot display the Alert Clear Time of a cleared/acknowledged alert. However when looking at Archived Alerts in the NMS gui, you can see the information displayed as an alert...
20 days ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 1

Enable Static Poller Assignment for Aruba Wi-Fi Plugin to Maintain Geographical Consistency

After enabling the Wi-Fi plugin on Aruba controllers, we observed that all associated APs are automatically added to SevOne. During this process, SevOne dynamically assigns pollers from the cluster, which conflicts with our strategy of assigning p...
about 1 month ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 0 Under review

When SSO is enforced, there should be a supported way to disable admin account login

As of NPM 8.1, the ability to enforce SSO and disable all password login is supported. However, the admin (uid=1) user is exempt from this as a failsafe. A client would like to a supported way to disable the admin user, when SSO is enforced, as a ...
about 1 month ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 2 Not under consideration

Add additional mib objects to IPSLA plugin required to build synthetic indicators

TELUS needs the following mib objects from the CISCO-RTTMON-MIB added to the IPSLA plugin: rttMonLatestJitterOperNumOfRTT (1.3.6.1.4.1.9.9.42.1.5.2.1.1) rttMonLatestJitterOperPacketMIA (1.3.6.1.4.1.9.9.42.1.5.2.1.29) rttMonLatestJitterOperSense (1...
about 1 month ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 1 Future consideration

Add alternate device and object name fields to SevOne Data Publisher (SDP) output to kafka

TELUS needs Interface, QOS and IPSLA metric data exported from SevOne on a periodic basis to build SLA reports (SONAR). The plan is use SevOne Data Publisher to push this object data as polled to Kafka. RIA workflows will be build to pull the metr...
about 1 month ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 0 Future consideration

Availability of Metadata Field in Webhook

If Webhook has a ability to incorporate device Metadata , we can use this fields to steer ticket / INC while raising webhook to Service Now / any other 3rd Party Tool
2 months ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 0 Future consideration

Add a synthetic indicator expression for poll frequency

When creating a synthetic indicator, it was found that if you are trying to convert data to a per second output, rather than the poll frequency, this can be difficult to do in specific situations. For example, a device has an multiple interface ob...
3 months ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 0 Future consideration

Having baselines shifted automatically whenever clock change happens in UK. We do it manually with a php now.

Whenever we had a clock change, all our baseline alerting will report false alarms because of the 1 hr drift. We have to run a custom php provided by support in all the appliances to shift the baselines by 1 hr. Having the baselines shift as part ...
3 months ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 0 Future consideration