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SevOne

Add support for Cisco SDA (Software Defined Access)

Fidelity is not using ACI but rather SDA. They would like to be able to monitor SDA
17 days ago in SevOne / Software Defined Networking (SDN) Under review

To onboard HPE Aruba SD-WAN, additional authentication methods such as API keys or TACACS+ are required.

To onboard HPE Aruba SD-WAN, additional authentication methods such as API keys or TACACS+ are required apart from default authentication method ( Silver peak)
about 1 month ago in SevOne / Software Defined WAN (SDWAN) Under review

Add the ability to change default user role for new users or add bulk changes

Given DI does not have an API to safely interact with configurations and settings, the default user role and other management mutations are not possible without invasive and not supported operations. Adding the ability to change users in bulk or e...
3 months ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) Under review

Enable monitoring of interface flapping.

Clients can monitor for interface integrity.
16 days ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) Under review

Palo Alto & other SDWAN networks can be high-availability and nodes can be pairs to provide for failover, SDWAN device discovery involves incrementing through the device ports for an IP address that allow SNMP communications, client would like to be able to specify IP (VIP) address port/interface to use for discovered SDWAN device, not have to manually edit 1,000+ devices.

It would mean SDWAN devices could be added with HA pair VIP, when failover occurs NMS will keep monitoring the active device.
23 days ago in SevOne / Software Defined WAN (SDWAN) Under review

Enable OAuth for SDB

Not using Okta authentication limits customer useability.
29 days ago in SevOne / Data Bus (DB) Under review

Allow for more secure keys instead of Username/Password for any connection to an external API, such as used for SDWAN monitoring.

Any access to an API, especially one that can affect production network hardware, should be as secure and maintenance free as possible.
3 months ago in SevOne / Software Defined WAN (SDWAN) Under review