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Network Management System (NMS)

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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. ...
about 1 year 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.
about 1 year 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

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

Object rules APIs missing in version 6.3

We are opting new design for sevOne NMS , as part of which we are keeping all the objects disabled by default and enabling objects by writing include object rule. This demands writing several object rules. I want to create object rules using autom...
about 1 year ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 0 Planned for future release

Policy duration is not allowing to set a time value more than 2hrs.

Policy duration is not allowing to set a time value more than 2hrs. We have some requirement to set a time value more than 2hrs. eg: We have critical interfaces where we want to monitor if the utilization is above 60% for 1 week out of 1 week trig...
about 1 year 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 ...
about 1 year ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 1 Future consideration

Enhancing Maintenance mode bug

When someone puts 1 device into maintenance mode it only shows the first 6 digits of the device name. However, many clients have similar long naming conventions and you canno't differentiate between devices with the same 6 digit prefix.
about 1 year ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 0 Is a defect