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Network Management System (NMS)

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WMI proxy port encryption AES-128 is depreciated

The federal reserve is depreciating AES-128. They can use it now, but in the near future it will need an exception. can only use approved cryptographic measures. Support to customer: Hello Richard, I don't believe there are plans in place to updat...
about 1 month ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 0 Future consideration

logs when status maps are updated

Currently, logs are only recorded in the audit logs when maps are created, deleted, or renamed. However, there are no logs generated when the contents of status maps, such as nodes or paths, are updated. Implementing such logging would help identi...
about 1 month ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 0 Future consideration

Maintenance windows to have Object Level Filtering

Use Case - A device is up and running, however a specific object is down for ‘maintenance’. It would be nice to be able to suppress Alerting for that specific object or group of objects. Example: Circuit maintenance on a router with more than one ...
over 1 year ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 3 Future consideration

SNMP Polling inside unique contexts should be fixed. Never worked despite having some functionality already built in. Very important to us to monitor BGP Peers in unique contexts.

Routing tables are segregated based on VRF. Sevone NMS only able to see BGP Peering in Default VRF/ Default CONTEXT. This means we are unable to see bgp peers drop to remote networks. This has vast consequences for us. This is no good! Please refe...
4 months ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 0 Future consideration

I want the SNMP Working Yes/No filter to be real-time - not based on the last successful discovery

When I set the SNMP Yes / Working No filter, I expect the result to be accurate - not based on the result of the last successful discovery. I should not have to manually check the results of the filter to see if they accurate.
5 months ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 0 Future consideration

We can see the interfaces and their IP in object summary. These IP's are ipv4 need ipv6 aswell.

The SNMP walk file was able to find the IPv6 address for the interface object "GigabitEthernet0/4/0/19.1202". The OID for IPv6 is "'.1.3.6.1.2.1.4.34.1.3.2'".IP-MIB::ipAddressIfIndex.ipv6."24:00:52:00:a0:00:00:00:00:00:00:0d:04:00:0d:b9" = INTEGER...
2 months ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 0 Future consideration

Support Negative Filter Values For TopN Views

Some Indicators report values primarily in negative numbers; an example would be power expresssed in dBm. Currently, SevOne can only support positive values for TopN Filters, so creating a Filter like "Power dBm < -20 Decibel-milliwats" is not ...
5 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...
11 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...
11 months ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 0 Future consideration

The Netflow Rules Manager needs to include a pop up or other UI based notification that changes to the rules will not take effect until after the existing flows are stopped external to SevOne

The Netflow Rules Manager needs to include a pop up or other UI based notification that changes to the rules will not take effect until after the existing flows are stopped external to SevOne
3 months ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 2 Future consideration