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Way to calculate license usage of product with new IP address based licensing that excludes COC objects

Hi, with new IP addressing based licensing calculations we should calculate from device manager amount of IP addresses. There are also COC objects there in the listing which also have IP addresses. Requesting a way to exclude those COC objects so ...
about 1 year ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 0 Future consideration

Grouping Live pipe interfaces ( ie interfaces which are interconnected with devices which are in Sevone)

Live pipes are basically trunk interfaces which interconnected with downstream and upstream devices . Sevone have this details as it detecting topology but currently we are unable to use this detail effectively to create a group of trunk interface...
about 1 year ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 18 Future consideration

Bank of America looking for the ability for SevOne to be able to alert on and collect string OIDs

The customer is looking to alert on several different OIDs which produce data of type string. Their use case is as they move from their old monitoring platform some vendors only offer specific OIDs in string form. (For example HA state with fortin...
about 1 year ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 0 Future consideration

Currently Sevone lacking many of the fault monitoring features as follows.

Currently Sevone lacking many of the fault monitoring features as follows. > policy should allow multiple plugin metrics for better configuration: If a device is down , ideally it should not trigger 2 alarms , Now sevone policy it will trigger ...
about 1 year ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 0 Future consideration

Metadata attribute to be added to Webhook's General Variables to be used as tag for routing alerts, assignments etc.

Most of SevOne customers have alerts integrated into external Event Management or Service Management system. Having tag that indicating to which operations support group the alert is forwarded would help customers to enhance alert processing makin...
about 1 year ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 0 Future consideration

Policy duration is not allowing to set a time value more than 2hrs.

Policy duration is not allowing to set a time value more than 2hrs. We have some requirement to set a time value more than 2hrs. eg: We have critical interfaces where we want to monitor if the utilization is above 60% for 1 week out of 1 week trig...
about 1 year ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 0 Future consideration