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Network Management System (NMS)

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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...
almost 2 years 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...
almost 2 years 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The WMI Plugin is quite outdated at this point.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...
almost 2 years 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...
about 2 years 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...
about 2 years ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) / Network Management System (NMS) 1 Future consideration

Add device move endpoint to REST APIv3

Adding a REST API endpoint would enable us to re-balance the devices across peers automatically. Sometimes, new objects are discovered pushing peers close to the object limit per peer same goes for the number of indicators per second. A script cou...
3 days ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 0 Submitted

Be able to search a port number under Flow Configuration -> Protocols and Services -> "Service Mapping" tab or export to file for search.

In NMS tool, looking at flow data under Protocols and Services... how do I find TCP port 36450 and what it is linked to? Finding TCP under Protocols is easy but finding what 36450 is linked to under Service Mapping is hard * I haven't found a way ...
6 days ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 0 Future consideration

IBM SevOne NPM should support concurrent HSA adds

IBM SevOne NPM should support concurrent parallel HSA adds, if possible. For instance, one of our clients has 40 peers in their PAS/HSA pair environment and requires the ability to 'repave' by decommissioning and re-adding many peers at once as pa...
6 days ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 1 Is a defect

Objects are not discovering after onboarding device using API enpoint /api/v2/devices.

When onboard devices using the SevOne API, of the cases, randomly, onboarded devices have 0 objects discovered. The process is like this: the device is onboarded, metadata is applied to the device, and this metadata sets all the configuration need...
12 days ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 1 Not under consideration

SevOne NPM should support netflow connection over TCP.

TCP is more secure and more reliable than UDP. As such, SevOne NPM should be able to support incoming netflow traffic over TCP in order to stay up to date with standards and customer expectations.
about 1 month ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 1 Future consideration