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Network Management System (NMS)

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Adding Maintenance Window for Object/Object Group

We currently have the capability to add maintenance windows for devices in SevOne. However, we need to extend this functionality to specific interfaces or objects. We request the addition of Maintenance Windows at the object level, allowing for ma...
5 months ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 0 Future consideration

To allow NMS user to run device discovery without granting 'Device Edit' privilege

To allow NMS user to run device discovery without granting 'Device Edit' privilege
6 months ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 0 Future consideration

ADDITIONAL ABILITIES AROUND EMAILING INFORMATION OF ALERTS ON POLICIES

Today we are launching the SD-WAN PPM service. We have more and more customers who are keen to receiving breached alert information via email rather than tickets. We would like to have the option to have a TO and CC capability along with being abl...
8 months ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 3 Functionality already exists

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...
12 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...
about 1 year ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 0 Future consideration

Display clients by username or computer name in Flow widget of SevOne DI instead of IP address

"Flow - Top Apps and Categories Detail" report is very nice.It is useful for me to find a user who most access the specific application by checking the "Top Apps > Top Clients" widget. But this widget displays clients by IP address. This is a b...
14 days ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 1 Future consideration

Enable SSO account provisioning on NMS

We want new users who authenticate via SSO successfully to be able to access SevOne NMS without explicitly needing an account previously created and mapped to that same user. Currently your system only allows users with manually created accounts t...
about 1 month ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 0 Future consideration

Add end user facing documentation in v3 API IBM developer pages

With SOAP being deprecated already from the ongoing supported API access and the desire to retire API v2, we need to ensure end users/customers are able to efficiently use the v3 API and complete documentation is the key to this succeeding. Withou...
7 months ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 1 Functionality already exists

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

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