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My subscriptions: Network Management System (NMS)

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To allow NMS user to run device discovery without granting 'Device Edit' privilege

To allow NMS user to run device discovery without granting 'Device Edit' privilege
7 months ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 0 Future consideration

Device Reimport Options | Managing device upgrades IRT.

Today, when we are doing device management and we identify when device hardware has changed, we must reimport the device into the solution. That process today requires us to add the device to the deletion queue, wait for deletion, then readd via c...
12 months ago in SevOne / Cloud / Network Management System (NMS) 3 Future consideration

Flexible data storage requirements for appliances

The data storage requirements for the PAS and DNC are rigid at present. While a customer may not have a requirement to archive metric and flow data for a period of 1 year, the ova files are pre configured with a set storage requirement. The storag...
about 1 year ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 0 Future consideration

Display clients by username or computer name in Flow widget of SevOne DI instead of IP address

"Flow - Top Apps and Categories Detail" report is very nice.It is useful for me to find a user who most access the specific application by checking the "Top Apps > Top Clients" widget. But this widget displays clients by IP address. This is a b...
22 days ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 1 Future consideration

Enable SSO account provisioning on NMS

We want new users who authenticate via SSO successfully to be able to access SevOne NMS without explicitly needing an account previously created and mapped to that same user. Currently your system only allows users with manually created accounts t...
about 1 month ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 0 Future consideration

Allowing SNMP Trap Alerts to be related to the actual device

In many cases SNMP Trap based are sent by a single SNMP Trap Forwarder. The Genesys Call Center software, NICE Recording Software, and vmWare vCenter are classic examples of this. From a recurring failure point of view, it gives the impression tha...
about 1 year ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 1 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 ...
about 1 year ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 0 Future consideration

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...
over 1 year 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.
almost 2 years ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 0 Future consideration

Create a page that lists all of the current available OID device certifications for all devices that have been certified with SevOne NPM including last updated certifications date/time

Provide us an expedited method to validate existing/new certifications within NPM Help us to provide faster responses to our customers
2 months ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 0 Future consideration