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Network Management System (NMS)

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

Alert for device discovery

When the devices were not being discovered properly the user is unable to find out until unless they are facing any issue. So, I'm thinking to have an alert for the device discovery, which helps to notify the user when the discovery was stuck. Thi...
about 1 month ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 0 Future consideration

IBM SevOne NMS upgrades should allow for limit or throttling of ssh connections

During a production upgrade for IBM SevOne NMS, a Palo Alto Networks firewall adaptive security policy automatically blocked traffic between IBM SevOne NPM peers due to excessive network traffic on TCP port 22. SevOne NPM uses Ansible to perform c...
about 2 months ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 2 Not under consideration

Update SNMP (Under TRAPD) to accept more SNMPV3 protocols

Within SevOne's SNMPV3 setup, (TrapD) only the following protocols are allowed to accept traps generated by SNMP : DES, AES128, AES192, and AES256. 3DES encryption is not a "supported protocol" to accept generated SNMP Traps inbound into SevOne......
about 2 months ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 0 Future consideration

Expose/Create a SevOne metadata field which contains the name of the SevOne NMS which is polling the device.

The Peer/Poller metadata field can be used to create device groups. Currently in the DI metadata report, there is a metadata field called the Peer Name / Poller Name which contains the name of the NMS system which 'owns' the device. However this m...
about 2 months 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...
8 months ago in SevOne / Cloud / Network Management System (NMS) 3 Future consideration

User onboarding dialog requires selecting preferred timezone which is limited/outdated. Provide a means to customize.

We have customers in a wide variety of geos and tailoring to their needs is necessary and useful.
4 months ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 1 Functionality already exists

Synthetic Alerts

Alerts that are defined within SevOne are restricted to the trigger conditions within that policy. The idea here is to be able to define synthetic alerts based on the presence or count of another alert (or multiple). The main requirement is for al...
4 months ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 1 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...
9 months ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 0 Future consideration

Both the v2 and v3 API's require customer facing documentation that covers the rate limits for the various endpoints contained where in.

Information such a rate limits for updates to API is a critical oversight in the SevOne published documentation. Customer uses api for a significant portion of SevOne functionality for large updates e.g. device adds, interface description updates ...
5 months ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 2 Is a defect