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Network Management System (NMS)

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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...
6 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

Use DNS lookup in SevOne-fix-hosts-file

The SevOne-fix-hosts-file script currently uses SSH to get the hostname of each server in the cluster. In a large cluster, this script can take 2-3 hours to complete. Changing from a repetitive SSH to a DNS lookup cuts down the time considerably.
over 1 year ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 0 Future consideration

Support configurable duration for DFA and RSD Slope-based Policy Conditions

The current fixed duration for DFA and RSD is too short to include Triggering on longer persistent behavior, like low Slope (e.g., flatlining when not at 0% or 100% utilization) Supporting up to the standard 2-hour duration setting would improve t...
6 months ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 0 Future consideration

Support multiple SMTP hosts

When Customer has s Separate SMTP hosts to send email to External and Internal email id, it is currently not possible to configure multiple SMTP IPs on the NMS. So he has to choose either of these(external or internal SMTP Host). This can be achie...
over 1 year ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 0 Not under consideration

The WMI Proxy ID should be visable in the Cluster Manager Settings under the WMI Proxies tab

In order to add a WMI managed device via API you are required to enter the WMI Proxy ID, the ID is not made available anywhere in the product UI or CLI other than make a MySQL query, which is expressly stated as not a recomended process for custom...
about 1 year ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 0 Planned for future release

Ability to rollback in case that peer-add or HSA-add fails, to mantain cluster integrity

Request is ability to remove all the data added in the peer-add or hsa-add process in case of failure.
about 1 year ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 0 Planned for future release

Ability to manage LDAP authentication, LDAP Group to role definition mapping and role definitions via direct configuration files and/or administrative APIs

Ability to manage LDAP authentication, LDAP Group to role definition mapping and role definitions via direct configuration files and/or administrative APIs. We are required to automate cluster build setup and today that is not fully possible as al...
about 1 year ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 0 Planned for future release