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Network Management System (NMS)

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Object groups & device groups should not be allowed to be deleted, if a policy uses that group.

How it works currently : Upon deleting a device/object group, the associated policy also gets deleted. How should it work: When trying to delete a device/object group that is associated with a policy, an error/warning should be thrown to the user....
8 months ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 0 Future consideration

Allow Dex to run on multiple appliances

Currently in SSO set-ups Dex runs on 1 appliance. This makes SSO hard to function in environments behind load balancers as not every appliance is running the daemon and the requests may not come from the Cluster Leader
7 months ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 0 Future consideration

Replace VMware tools shutdown command with SevOne shutdown command for proper shutdown

All VMware customers, would mean one triggered from the vCenter interface will then properly shutdown the machine. /etc/vmware-tools/poweroff-vm-default/etc/vmware-tools/restart-vm-default
12 months ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 0 Future consideration

NMS needs to contain functionality pre process SNMP String type values and based on identifiable returned string values assign an integer/number value and record that as the associated indicator metric value.

Within the area of responsibility for Verizon GTS there are several hundred SNMP objects that need to be tracked the return a STRING value instead of a number or integer. Many of the strings are fixed. e.g. a status code of "active" vs "inactive"....
about 1 year ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 2 Future consideration

Enhancing Maintenance mode bug

When someone puts 1 device into maintenance mode it only shows the first 6 digits of the device name. However, many clients have similar long naming conventions and you canno't differentiate between devices with the same 6 digit prefix.
over 2 years ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 0 Is a defect

Add %ifInErrors, %ifOutErrors, %ifInDiscards, %ifOutDiscards as standard indicators for interfaces

These are industry standard metrics and should have been added years ago. All customers benefit since individual packet error/discard counts don't provide much context into the seriousness of the issue (e.g. 5 errors out of how many packets?) vs i...
5 months ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 2 Planned for future release

S3 scripting enhancement to allow index to be variable if the values of that variable is integer or another OID.

SNMP scripting documentation explains that "A variable cannot be used as an index number. The index number must be an actual number". Indeed, S3 fails if for example you try to get values of the last character of the string of variable length. Wit...
about 2 months ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 0 Future consideration

Add subgroups to Object Groups.

Object Groups are too flat. It would be nice to have sub-group for object groups. They would be populated by the same type of rules used for object groups except the source would be the parent group instead of a device group. A DI report that has ...
3 months ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 0 Future consideration

Network configuration manager capability

To complement the monitoring capabilities, we're looking for SevOne to have a Network Configuration Manager module for backups and versioning.
4 months ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 0 Future consideration

Save option SNMP V3 credentials and WMI credential

Will allow automatic discovery of devices and automatic updating in case of changes. Makes SNMP V3 work the same as SNMP V2 - WMI same as SNMP per customer
7 months ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 0 Future consideration