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Network Management System (NMS)

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NMS Device Grouping by Product OID/Device Type

A device post discovery is always defined as a particular device type, such as F5, Cisco ASA, etc. Device Group Membership rules should allow for the ability to use Device Type as a means of membership. Currently I am forced to define what the OID...
over 1 year ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 3 Future consideration

Updates on the WMI Plugin

The WMI Plugin is quite outdated at this point. Additionally managing the mapping of devices to WMI Proxies is a nightmare, as it can only be done through the API. Additionally, WMI Proxies are set on a per device basis. Ideally I'd like the abili...
over 1 year ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 0 Future consideration

RESTapi performance tuning

Customer is using the REST API to verify that the Device IDs and Object IDs they have associated with the telecom inventory in their application is accurate. To do that, they are requesting about 4800 objects from the API. POST /api/v2/devices/obj...
over 1 year ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 3 Not under consideration

Data Insight - Visualization of HTTP/S Routes - Reporting

Wanted to know if there was a way to display the traceroute that the HTTP poller uses in SevOne NMS, and if it can be displayed in a widget within DI. The idea is that we would be able to monitor the routes of 443 traffic internal to their geoloca...
almost 2 years ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) / Network Management System (NMS) 1 Future consideration

Sevone API critical functionalities

The requested API functionalities will assist us in running multiple processes needed to interact with SevOne, such as bulk device onboarding with connectivity verifications (SNMP & Traceroute), monitoring validations using object rules and po...
3 days ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 0 Submitted

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

Flow Rules and ability to block unknown

I would like a way to block all "unknown" flows from all flow collectors such that I do not process flows I do not want to have in my system. These unknown sources eat resources on collectors and I would rather an a "deny ip any any unknown" type ...
9 days ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 1 Needs more information

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...
9 days ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 2 Future consideration

enable read only view to peers tab under cluster manager option

There is a requirement to provide read only access to peers tab under cluster manager option to users. this will help users to view the current capacity of the SevOne clustered appliances and help plan if any additional infra needs to be added.
11 days ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 1 Planned for future release

WMI proxy port encryption AES-128 is depreciated

The federal reserve 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 updat...
2 months ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 0 Future consideration