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Network Management System (NMS)

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Netflow Flow Interface Manager should include a warning that advises the customer all previously recorded netflow data for a given flow interface will be deleted when purging the flow interface.

Currently there is no warning the data will be lost.
26 days ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 1 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...
about 2 months ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 0 Future consideration

Add on new basic messaging protocol "MQTT" to NMS.

IOT is growing in the IT infrastructure monitoring and the end customer will hope he can consolidation monitor over all. MQTT is growing to IOT standard protocol and the other brands NMS have been added MQTT in their protocol. For example: Zabbix....
about 1 year ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 2 Future consideration

SevOne NMS SelfMon using SNMPv3 OOTB

SevOne NMS SelfMon using SNMPv3 OOTBMore and more security concern and SevOne NMS is no exception and need to comply to SNMP v3
29 days ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 0 Future consideration

syslog - 8 level(s) of notification - Customizing the SevOne alert levels for the 8 levels of Syslog Message.

When a syslog message is received by SevOne, we decide what color alert it gets. Currently there are default 8 levels of Syslog. Can those 8 colors be customized per NMS cluster instance? Like make it a whole new setting under "Cluster" > "clus...
about 1 month ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 3 Under review

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.
2 months 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...
4 months ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 1 Functionality already exists

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

NMS plugin for Nutanix

Many prospect customer have intention to move out of VMware and 1 of the favorite choice is Nutanix. Demand for Nutanix Plugin to monitor the infrastructure and platform is increasing by day.
about 1 month ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 2 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...
5 months ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 3 Functionality already exists