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Network Management System (NMS)

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data retention be extended for beyond 365 days for active as well as ceased devices

For some customers it is essential to have the historic data for more than 12 months. Hence need to have feasibility to extent the retention period beyond 365 days. Also same retention should be available for the devices which are not currently be...
over 1 year ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 3 Not under consideration

Listing or extracting devices which are under maintenance

Currently Sevone doesn't have a feature to see the device list from GUI which devices are under maintenance. If the maintenance device group having n number of devices it will be very hard to check one by one. 1. Device status in Device manager sh...
over 1 year ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 0 Planned for future release

Trap correlation and Send SNMP trap based alerts to Netcool or any event Manager

Sevone has the ability to receive the traps and generate alerts but its lack to send this alert to any of the event manager via Trap . Because of this trap processing bears no value . As an end user they prefer to see both threshold and trap based...
over 1 year ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 1 Functionality already exists

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

Setting Delay in sending threshold trap to destination

If we impose a delay suppose 5 min , It will be helpful to avoid the alerts which are clearing in 5 minutes of time not send to netcool or the destination event manager and subsequently we can avoid these tickets. Now due to lack of this feature ,...
over 1 year ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 5 Not under 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...
over 1 year ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 0 Future consideration

To be able to convert strings from snmp OIDs to values for indicators.

To be able to convert strings from snmp OIDs to values for indicators.
over 1 year ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 1 Planned for future release

Detecting When Devices are Unvailable and Be Notified

For example: If a device is via SNMP and ICMP not available/reachable, then it is most likely down (severity: critical). Otherwise, it is still up (severity: error). So that I can better distinguish whether a device is actually down
over 1 year ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 1 Planned for future release

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