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NMS Device Grouping by Product OID/Device Type

A device post discovery is always defined as a particular device type, such as F5, Cisco ASA, etc. Device Group Membership rules should allow for the ability to use Device Type as a means of membership. Currently I am forced to define what the OID...
about 2 years ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 3 Future consideration

Updates on the WMI Plugin

The WMI Plugin is quite outdated at this point. Additionally managing the mapping of devices to WMI Proxies is a nightmare, as it can only be done through the API. Additionally, WMI Proxies are set on a per device basis. Ideally I'd like the abili...
about 2 years ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 0 Future consideration

Data Insight - Visualization of HTTP/S Routes - Reporting

Wanted to know if there was a way to display the traceroute that the HTTP poller uses in SevOne NMS, and if it can be displayed in a widget within DI. The idea is that we would be able to monitor the routes of 443 traffic internal to their geoloca...
about 2 years ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) / Network Management System (NMS) 1 Future consideration

Additional sanitization for Webhooks

Certain SevOne json payloads are affecting service now webhooks and can't be parsed properly if they contain special characters (such as : ). Request to further sanitize our webhook payloads in a more compatable format that service now can accept.
17 days ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 0 Future consideration

SevOne should identify device-side object reindexing and trigger a discovery

A customer has identified an issue where over the course of spin-up / spin-down connections, maintenance, and failovers, it's not uncommon for certain objects to become unavailable due to snmp reindexing. For examle, during a fail-over when there ...
23 days ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 0 Future consideration

Improve Api v3 Documentation for SDBConfigs endpoints

API v3 has a section for SDBConfigs - Many of the endpoints have very little or no description on what the intended functionality is. Improved documentation for the endpoints is requested
about 1 month ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 0 Future consideration

Add device move endpoint to REST APIv3

Adding a REST API endpoint would enable us to re-balance the devices across peers automatically. Sometimes, new objects are discovered pushing peers close to the object limit per peer same goes for the number of indicators per second. A script cou...
about 1 month ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 0 Future consideration

Be able to search a port number under Flow Configuration -> Protocols and Services -> "Service Mapping" tab or export to file for search.

In NMS tool, looking at flow data under Protocols and Services... how do I find TCP port 36450 and what it is linked to? Finding TCP under Protocols is easy but finding what 36450 is linked to under Service Mapping is hard * I haven't found a way ...
about 1 month ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 0 Future consideration

Requirement is to merge Falcon/Top Talker report with Threshold breached notification into one email notification.

We have functionality for average threshold breaches for SDWAN devices to send a proactive alert/notification on email. But can there be any province to include Top talker data in the same email.
2 months ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 2 Future consideration

Implement user role restriction to view specific API endpoints on the Swagger API docs page (v3)

Use-case to separate certain access to only accounts we assign. We would like to limit the amount of accounts that are available to generally get web requests to those with the appropriate permission. Where we can establish who can use GET request...
3 months ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 0 Future consideration