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Network Management System (NMS)

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Allow polling of Strings via SNMP

Today Palo Alto Firewalls running in HA mode can be monitored via OID 1.3.6.1.4.1.25461.2.1.2.1.11 to see their current state of HA. The values returned are strings and can be "disabled", "active", or "passive" Other vendors like F5 have used inte...
10 months ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 0 Future consideration

Use DNS lookup in SevOne-fix-hosts-file

The SevOne-fix-hosts-file script currently uses SSH to get the hostname of each server in the cluster. In a large cluster, this script can take 2-3 hours to complete. Changing from a repetitive SSH to a DNS lookup cuts down the time considerably.
11 months ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 0 Future consideration

Support multiple SMTP hosts

When Customer has s Separate SMTP hosts to send email to External and Internal email id, it is currently not possible to configure multiple SMTP IPs on the NMS. So he has to choose either of these(external or internal SMTP Host). This can be achie...
12 months ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 0 Not under consideration

Ask to clear active alerts after deleting a policy

When a user deletes an alert policy, we don't touch any of the active alerts that exist. Often a user then has to travel over, filter, clear etc. I'd recommend we add a dialog at the end of the policy deletion user flow that prompts the user with ...

Ability to not create additional interfaces seen by Sflow.

With traditional NetFlow, there is an option in cluster manager to "Not create Ingress/Egress records". This limits the interfaces created by the NMS to only those interfaces forwarding flows. This option does not exist or work for Sflow. If you a...
4 months ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 0 Future consideration

Increase Device inventory report raw limit more than 1000.

We have to schedule the device inventory report but facing following challenges . 1. NMS device inventory report limited to export 1000 raw ( devices ). 2. Metadata report from DI doesnt have the default fields like Device Availability which is a ...
4 months ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 0 Planned for future release

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...
6 months ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 0 Planned for future release

Ability to rollback in case that peer-add or HSA-add fails, to mantain cluster integrity

Request is ability to remove all the data added in the peer-add or hsa-add process in case of failure.
7 months ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 0 Planned for future release

Ability to manage LDAP authentication, LDAP Group to role definition mapping and role definitions via direct configuration files and/or administrative APIs

Ability to manage LDAP authentication, LDAP Group to role definition mapping and role definitions via direct configuration files and/or administrative APIs. We are required to automate cluster build setup and today that is not fully possible as al...
7 months ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 0 Planned for future release

Add possibility of new indicator types to the DNS poller object

Add support for various DNS records like TXT, MX, CNAME, etc. Option that checks whether the data received is the expected one.
7 months ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 1 Future consideration