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Network Management System (NMS)

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I want the SNMP Working Yes/No filter to be real-time - not based on the last successful discovery

When I set the SNMP Yes / Working No filter, I expect the result to be accurate - not based on the result of the last successful discovery. I should not have to manually check the results of the filter to see if they accurate.
1 day ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 0 Submitted

Support Negative Filter Values For TopN Views

Some Indicators report values primarily in negative numbers; an example would be power expresssed in dBm. Currently, SevOne can only support positive values for TopN Filters, so creating a Filter like "Power dBm < -20 Decibel-milliwats" is not ...
9 days ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 0 Submitted

Reset Baseline on entire device history

Currently you are limited to resetting the baseline for the past week to correct abnormalities that may have had happen in the past week. There are times when new services are turned up or processes are changed so a device will deviate from its st...
10 days ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 0 Future consideration

new feature requests that are specific to BFD in NMS

Bidirectional Forwarding Detection (BFD) is a fast fault detection mechanism based on RFC 5880. After a BFD session is established between two systems. We want to monitor the status of the bfd protocol configured on cisco devices through sevone. C...
11 days ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 0 Future consideration

To allow NMS user to run device discovery without granting 'Device Edit' privilege

To allow NMS user to run device discovery without granting 'Device Edit' privilege
24 days ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 0 Future consideration

CCSDWAN Dedicated Cluster: Philips : NMS 6.7.1: Flow reporting issue : Interface index visible instead of Interface name in FIM

In Flow interface manager, we are not seeing interfaces name for the sub interfaces, but it shows with ifindex id which is difficult for us to recognize and not acceptable in the flow reporting. Flow data receiving through sub-interfaces, however ...
about 1 month ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 1 Functionality already exists

Reporting 'All Devices I Can See' group

To better build out-of-the-box reports in DI, I would like to be able to select a device group that represents all devices I can see based on my UserRole. Presently, as admin, I can build a shared OOTB report based on 'All Device Groups'...when a ...
about 1 month ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 0 Future consideration

Add end user facing documentation in v3 API IBM developer pages

With SOAP being deprecated already from the ongoing supported API access and the desire to retire API v2, we need to ensure end users/customers are able to efficiently use the v3 API and complete documentation is the key to this succeeding. Withou...
about 1 month ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 1 Functionality already exists

Update the NMS to allow customer defined VPC endpoints for AWS Monitoring

To gather monitoring metrics, the SevOne AWS plugin utilizes a set of unknown (to the user) AWS endpoints published by Amazon, and subject to change. https://ip-ranges.amazonaws.com/ip-ranges.json SevOne documentation requires only an outbound 443...
about 1 month ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 1 Under review

Improve API v2 robustness and error checking

V2 APIs are “blind” and do not consider the health state of the cluster during execution. For example, when creating a device, a success message is returned but when using subsequent API to apply device metadata, device does not exist error is ret...
about 1 month ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 1 Is a defect