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Network Management System (NMS)

Add functionality in v3 API for Device Mover

Currently, Device Mover only works from the GUI, there are no API endpoints. Having the ability to use the API would allow a lot of device moves to be scheduled via script without needing to manually set up each one in the GUI
1 day ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) Submitted

We’re looking to enhance our alerting to detect interface flaps while avoiding overlap with our existing device availability (ICMP reachability) alerts. Use ICMP-based monitoring to identify intermittent connectivity (flapping) without duplicating the current “device down” availability alerts.

Current ICMP device availability alert configuration - Trigger condition: Maximum Availability = 0% - Clear condition: Minimum Availability ≥ 80% - Polling cadence: 5 consecutive pings every 5 minutes Proposed ICMP strategy (to improve flap detect...
3 days ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) Submitted

Simplifying the API call to fetch the device health statistics . And also option to extract the reports in PDF using API call. Kind of some template or Multiple device report at the same time .

This feature can be used to pull the reports , Device health statistics using Simple API calls from an agent .
5 days ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) Needs more information

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

Adjust report CSV output to match the Report itself

When creating a report and exporting it as PDF, depending on the report setup - For example, in a report we would have the following:Device Name, Object Name, Indicator Name, Average Value However, when exporting to CSV, the results instead combin...
9 days ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) Under review

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

Expand functionality on /api/v3/data/topn endpoint to consider custom timespan like in NMS Web UI

The /api/v3/data/topn endpoint accepts a variety of parameters (aggregation unit, device filters, sorting, etc.), but it does not include a timespan selection. While the API response does include a label attribute (e.g., "Today") and a timeRanges ...
about 1 month ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) Functionality already exists

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...
3 months ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) Needs more information

Alert Webhook "sent" verification

My customer had an incident where they did not think they were receiving Webhooks from SevOne trap Alerts in their PagerDuty system. In the end, the issue was a disabled usergroup in PagerDuty that was causing the issue and "hiding" the webhooks i...
about 2 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...
6 months ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) Future consideration

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