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Network Management System (NMS)

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

Improve API v2 robustness and error checking

V2 APIs are “blind” and do not consider the health state of the cluster during execution. For example, when creating a device, a success message is returned but when using subsequent API to apply device metadata, device does not exist error is ret...
3 months ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 1 Is a defect

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...
9 months ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 1 Future consideration

Ask to clear active alerts after deleting a policy

When a user deletes an alert policy, we don't touch any of the active alerts that exist. Often a user then has to travel over, filter, clear etc. I'd recommend we add a dialog at the end of the policy deletion user flow that prompts the user with ...

The policy based alert based on flow conditions also to send out a flow output

This is useful in organisations to rapidly have the information available for i.e top talkers whilst a high utilisation event is being triggered.
4 months ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 3 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 ...
10 months ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 0 Future consideration

Extend functionality of the Maintenance Window Manager

When one particular Maintenance Window is edited the device name shows up with first 5 letters and dots. Then operator needs to search for exact device name. Actually Maintenance Window Manager is not presenting device name as a column so if the n...
about 1 year ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 0 Planned for future release

Support for string value collection and storage

Today, there are a handful of devices that expose data as stringtype, e.g. "up", "down", "active", "standby". Enhance SevOnes collection and storage engines to allow strings to be handled by the system.
about 1 year ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 0 Planned for future release

Use the more secure Azure Managed Identity instead of SAS token when authenticating SevOne DataBus (SDB) against a Kafka enabled Event Hub

Currently, our SevOne DataBus (SDB) feed is sending to an Azure Event Hub as the Kafka Consumer endpoint. Authentication relies on a SAS token (SharedAccessKey). The use of SAS tokens as an authentication mechanism is proved to be less secure, and...
5 months ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 0 Future consideration

Allow polling of Strings via SNMP

Today Palo Alto Firewalls running in HA mode can be monitored via OID 1.3.6.1.4.1.25461.2.1.2.1.11 to see their current state of HA. The values returned are strings and can be "disabled", "active", or "passive" Other vendors like F5 have used inte...
over 1 year ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 0 Future consideration