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Network Management System (NMS)

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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......
4 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...
5 months ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 1 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 ...
about 1 year ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 0 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 ...
11 months ago in SevOne / Configuration and Administration / Data Insight (DI) / Network Management System (NMS) 0 Future consideration

Reset Baseline on entire device history

Currently you are limited to resetting the baseline for the past week to correct abnormalities that may have had happen in the past week. There are times when new services are turned up or processes are changed so a device will deviate from its st...
5 months ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 0 Future consideration

new feature requests that are specific to BFD in NMS

Bidirectional Forwarding Detection (BFD) is a fast fault detection mechanism based on RFC 5880. After a BFD session is established between two systems. We want to monitor the status of the bfd protocol configured on cisco devices through sevone. C...
5 months ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 2 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...
over 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.
over 1 year ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 0 Planned for future release

CCSDWAN Dedicated Cluster: Philips : NMS 6.7.1: Flow reporting issue : Interface index visible instead of Interface name in FIM

In Flow interface manager, we are not seeing interfaces name for the sub interfaces, but it shows with ifindex id which is difficult for us to recognize and not acceptable in the flow reporting. Flow data receiving through sub-interfaces, however ...
6 months ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 1 Functionality already exists

Reporting 'All Devices I Can See' group

To better build out-of-the-box reports in DI, I would like to be able to select a device group that represents all devices I can see based on my UserRole. Presently, as admin, I can build a shared OOTB report based on 'All Device Groups'...when a ...
6 months ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 0 Future consideration