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Network Management System (NMS)

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Extend functionality of the Maintenance Window Manager - Generate Report in PDF

By adding Report in PDF format Maintenance Window Manager may export data that we can see on the screen. Customer's NMS operator can select the window for report ( maintenance START or maintenance STOP window ) so it can be share with the other te...
12 months ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 0 Planned for future release

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...
12 months ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 0 Planned for future release

Add possibility of new indicator types to the DNS poller object

Add support for various DNS records like TXT, MX, CNAME, etc. Option that checks whether the data received is the expected one.
12 months ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 1 Future consideration

sub-interface names should be made avaialble for ceges in flow report even if the sub-interfaces is not discovered in SevOne

As per current architecture for CCSDWAN, interfaces are discovered via API calls to vManage and flow is directly recived from devices. The flow interfaces then are mapped to the interfaces discovered via vManage alowing to chain the flow reports. ...
12 months ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 4 Future consideration

Add AWS Gateway and Application Load Balancers Monitoring

Hi, we would like that SevOne could monitor Gateway and Application Load Balancers in the same way as Network Load Balancers, we use some gateways one for firewall filtering and we would like to monitor its performance from our Monitoring tool.
12 months ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 4 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

disable ingress/egress records when not available

In NetFlow, there is an option to disable this. Uncheck "Create Ingress/Egress Records when not available". I don't see the same option for sFlow.
about 1 year 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....
about 1 year ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 2 Future consideration

The Filter Options on Object Manager should default to "show both"

Every admin should, by default, get a holistic view of what the discovery for a device is actually doing. If they cannot make this a default, then at least make it an option in the settings to make this the default.
about 1 year ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 1 Not under consideration

Way to calculate license usage of product with new IP address based licensing that excludes COC objects

Hi, with new IP addressing based licensing calculations we should calculate from device manager amount of IP addresses. There are also COC objects there in the listing which also have IP addresses. Requesting a way to exclude those COC objects so ...
about 1 year ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 0 Future consideration