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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...
4 months ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 5 Future consideration

Add on new basic messaging protocol "MQTT" to NMS.

IOT is growing in the IT infrastructure monitoring and the end customer will hope he can consolidation monitor over all. MQTT is growing to IOT standard protocol and the other brands NMS have been added MQTT in their protocol. For example: Zabbix....
2 months ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 2 Future consideration

Requesting to create some dependency at objects level

Hi team, we would like request a new feature regarding the possibility of configuring some kind of dependency within the SevOne tool at the object level. At the moment, if a device goes down and this device has ping, SNMP Availability, and some in...
8 days ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 1 Future consideration

The WMI Proxy ID should be visable in the Cluster Manager Settings under the WMI Proxies tab

In order to add a WMI managed device via API you are required to enter the WMI Proxy ID, the ID is not made available anywhere in the product UI or CLI other than make a MySQL query, which is expressly stated as not a recomended process for custom...
15 days ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 0 Future consideration

Maintenance windows to have Object Level Filtering

Use Case - A device is up and running, however a specific object is down for ‘maintenance’. It would be nice to be able to suppress Alerting for that specific object or group of objects. Example: Circuit maintenance on a router with more than one ...
5 months ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 3 Future consideration

We have checkpoint devices for which we need HAstate to get monitored, where snmpwalk for object is a string. It is required to poll and graph string values.

We have devices that need to get polled using string value.
21 days ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 0 Future consideration

Support for string value collection and storage

Today, there are a handful of devices that expose data as stringtype, e.g. "up", "down", "active", "standby". Enhance SevOnes collection and storage engines to allow strings to be handled by the system.
2 months ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 0 Future consideration

Extend functionality of the Maintenance Window Manager

When one particular Maintenance Window is edited the device name shows up with first 5 letters and dots. Then operator needs to search for exact device name. Actually Maintenance Window Manager is not presenting device name as a column so if the n...
about 2 months ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 0 Future consideration

Add schedule to Trap Event Editor

Hi team, regarding the Trap Event Editor that generates an alarm message when a specific trap is received, we would like to avoid the creation of this alarm message under a schedule given (in the same way that Policy Alerts do it). In that way, we...
about 1 month ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 0 Future consideration

Provide improved options for searching LDAP groups when configuring LDAP based access.

Provide improved options for searching LDAP groups when configuring LDAP based access. Today group filter is using “*<string provided>*” as the group name filter. Given the scale of our AD environment this takes too long to respond or return...
about 2 months ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 3 Future consideration