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Network Management System (NMS)

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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 ...
almost 2 years ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 3 Future consideration

Manually setting sampling rate to SevOne NMS.

When monitoring Sampled NetFlow, It needs to configure the sampling rate on the network device to send it to SevOne.Without this configuration, SevOne will not recognize the sampling rate, and the traffic volume displayed on the Flow widget will b...
about 2 months ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 0 Future consideration

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...
7 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
8 months ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 0 Future consideration

NetFlow support for defining Custom Virtual Interfaces in the DNC

NetFlow from multiple airports (via MSP) arrives on a single NetFlow interface, requiring them to define CVIs in their current tool. While SevOne can sort of cover the capability using multiple network segments, it isn't as straight forward as the...
2 months ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 2 Future consideration

WMI proxy port encryption AES-128 is depreciated

Organization 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 update the W...
4 months ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 0 Future consideration

Flow Rules and grouping Collectors

I would like a way to have a group of flow collectors in SevOne grouped then be able to use that group inside flow rules. Thus allowing me to have a USA group, An EMEA group and so on. Now I can easily say "For all flow collectors in the DNC_Japan...
2 months ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 2 Future consideration

flow de-duplication within DI

Flow duplication is a big issue when reporting and the same flow records are sent from different flow exporters (routers that the traffic transits). It's not easy to define groups or select specific devices for reporting, particularly when there a...
6 months ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 4 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.
about 1 year ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 1 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...
about 1 year ago in SevOne / Cloud / Network Management System (NMS) 3 Future consideration