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Network Management System (NMS)

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Alert if Device does not respond to SNMP polling

Customer has faced instances where the monitored device is successfully discovered via SNMP but the SNMP daemon on the device freezes resulting in no successful SNMP polls while the device responds to ICMP. Customer wants to be notified when such ...
7 months ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 1 Functionality already exists

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.
about 1 year ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 1 Future consideration

SAML Login to disabled account

With users disabled on NMS it forces MFA/SSO which works currently. However, the customer found out while deploying DI that DI fails with users disabled on the NMS.
7 months ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 1 Future consideration

Device discovery using traps

The ask if for the capability to perform a device discovery from the trap received by the NMS. In addition to the existing discovery methods available, the NMS should have the capability to add the device if not already added if a trap is received...
8 months ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 2 Future consideration

Object Type Utilization Metrics | Managing Object Licenses for Cluster

A capability to identify which object types are being used the most in your environment would spearhead administrative actions to reduce or reevaluate object types existing in large environments. If an object type is not found anywhere in the clus...
8 months ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 0 Future consideration

TopN Views: CPU and memory utilization view creation requires finding the correct variables.

One must go through the many CPU and memory variables and select the correct ones to provide the desired results for all devices in the group.
8 months ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 0 Future consideration

End Users with Read-Only Permissions cannot edit/add the new report tab in reports after Upgrade SevOne IPPMS from 5.6.2 to 6.3.6

Dear IBM Team, End Users with Read-Only Permissions cannot edit/add the reports tab in reports post Upgrade of SevOne IPPMS from 5.6.2 to 6.3.6. In older version 5.6.2 , user's able to edit the reports and add new report tabs in opened report but ...
over 1 year ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 1 Future consideration

Alarm Co-relation and suppress downstream alarms when upstream device itself is down

Alarm Correlation and suppress downstream alarms when upstream device itself is down. currently if any site went down sevone will trigger node down alert for all the (n) devices in that location. Sevone should have some mechanism to identify and c...
over 1 year ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 1 Future consideration

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