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Network Management System (NMS)

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IBM SevOne NMS Alert Dashboard needs to display the Metadata column

The end-customers wants to display the Metadata field at the same time when he sees a problematic Object or Device on the Alert Dashboard (because there are fields such as the unit used and the contact person in the Metadata) The end-customer want...
about 2 years ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 5 Future consideration

Add Aruba Access Point Metadata upon Device Discover

Upon discovering Aruba Controller devices in NMS via the Wifi plugin, Aruba Access Point (AP) devices are also added to the cluster. However, some useful metadata is missing which does get included from other manufacturer APs. This is affecting th...
28 days ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 1 Under review

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...
3 months ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 2 Planned for future release

How can we make it easier for MSPs like BT to roll out updates at scale for 7.2 and 8.x environments?

Large MSPs like BT manage environments with 30+ clusters. Even with a ~30-minute upgrade time per cluster, the cumulative effort, scheduling, and risk of downtime make frequent updates challenging. Simplifying the rollout process (e.g., automation...
2 months ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 2 Needs more information

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
4 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....
almost 2 years ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 2 Future consideration

Webhook Error Check - Feature

Currently NMS accepts carriage return (\n) in any condition (or trigger) message under policies. However, it breaks the webhook mechanism, if the same policy is tied up to the respective webhook. Please add Error check (or Not allowed) when a carr...
3 months ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 0 Is a defect

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

IBM SevOne NPM should support concurrent HSA adds

IBM SevOne NPM should support concurrent parallel HSA adds, if possible. For instance, one of our clients has 40 peers in their PAS/HSA pair environment and requires the ability to 'repave' by decommissioning and re-adding many peers at once as pa...
3 months ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 1 Is a defect

Need feature enhancement for device and object group creation

Currently, when creating a device group using metadata, the model defaults to OR logic and does not support using two or more metadata fields with AND logic. We request a feature that allows the use of AND logic for more precise group creation.
6 months ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 0 Future consideration