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Network Management System (NMS)

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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...
7 months ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 1 Future 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 ...

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 ...
8 months ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 0 Future consideration

Use the more secure Azure Managed Identity instead of SAS token when authenticating SevOne DataBus (SDB) against a Kafka enabled Event Hub

Currently, our SevOne DataBus (SDB) feed is sending to an Azure Event Hub as the Kafka Consumer endpoint. Authentication relies on a SAS token (SharedAccessKey). The use of SAS tokens as an authentication mechanism is proved to be less secure, and...
3 months ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 0 Future consideration

Support configurable duration for DFA and RSD Slope-based Policy Conditions

The current fixed duration for DFA and RSD is too short to include Triggering on longer persistent behavior, like low Slope (e.g., flatlining when not at 0% or 100% utilization) Supporting up to the standard 2-hour duration setting would improve t...
4 months ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 0 Future consideration

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...
8 months ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 0 Future consideration

SAML Login to disabled account

With users disabled on NMS it forces MFA/SSO which works currently. However, the customer found out while deploying DI that DI fails with users disabled on the NMS.
5 months ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 1 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...
about 1 year ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 0 Future consideration

Device discovery using traps

The ask if for the capability to perform a device discovery from the trap received by the NMS. In addition to the existing discovery methods available, the NMS should have the capability to add the device if not already added if a trap is received...
5 months ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 2 Future consideration

Object Type Utilization Metrics | Managing Object Licenses for Cluster

A capability to identify which object types are being used the most in your environment would spearhead administrative actions to reduce or reevaluate object types existing in large environments. If an object type is not found anywhere in the clus...
5 months ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 0 Future consideration