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Network Management System (NMS)

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...
10 days ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) Future consideration

Configuration option to preserve ifOperStatus data polled during ifLastChange updates

In the current implementation, SevOne discards all polled data for a given polling interval whenever it detects an update to ifLastChange. Although this behaviour is designed to maintain data consistency, it introduces a significant limitation for...
3 months ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) Future consideration

Device Groups and Object Groups, currently set to a static amount of 50 per page. It would be nice to change that to 1000 like you can on the Device Manager page.

We have thousands of devices and millions of objects, and we need to be able to scroll down quickly through the list instead of waiting and waiting for each page to load.
3 months ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 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...
4 months ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) Future consideration

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...
about 1 month ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) Future consideration

Requesting that an enhancement be created to allow SevOne NMS to interface for user token card authentication on IBM Tivoli WebSphere Application Server using Single-Sign-On

I work for the US Air Force and we need to be able to use our token cards to authenticate from IBM Tivoli JazzSM/DASH to SevOne NMS and SevOne Data Insights. Currently the NMS only supports Okta/Azure SSO/SAML providers. I am not seeing support fo...
over 1 year ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 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...
5 months ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) Future consideration

Allow Multiple Metadata Fields in Device/Object Group Membership Rule

As we are using Metadata fields to store device or object extra static data, we are facing challenge of only one metadata field can be used in Device/Object Group Membership Rule. Sometimes we can get by creating multiple rules to mimic 'OR' multi...
12 months ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 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
7 months ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) Future consideration

IBM SevOne NMS Alert Dashboard needs to display the Metadata column

The end-customers wants to display the Metadata field at the same time when he sees a problematic Object or Device on the Alert Dashboard (because there are fields such as the unit used and the contact person in the Metadata) The end-customer want...
almost 3 years ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) Future consideration

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