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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

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

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

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

Grouping Live pipe interfaces ( ie interfaces which are interconnected with devices which are in Sevone)

Live pipes are basically trunk interfaces which interconnected with downstream and upstream devices . Sevone have this details as it detecting topology but currently we are unable to use this detail effectively to create a group of trunk interface...
about 1 year ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 18 Future consideration

Bank of America looking for the ability for SevOne to be able to alert on and collect string OIDs

The customer is looking to alert on several different OIDs which produce data of type string. Their use case is as they move from their old monitoring platform some vendors only offer specific OIDs in string form. (For example HA state with fortin...
about 1 year ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 0 Future consideration

IBM SevOne NMS Alert Dashboard needs to display the Metadata column

The end-customers wants to display the Metadata field at the same time when he sees a problematic Object or Device on the Alert Dashboard (because there are fields such as the unit used and the contact person in the Metadata) The end-customer want...
about 1 year ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 5 Future consideration

Currently Sevone lacking many of the fault monitoring features as follows.

Currently Sevone lacking many of the fault monitoring features as follows. > policy should allow multiple plugin metrics for better configuration: If a device is down , ideally it should not trigger 2 alarms , Now sevone policy it will trigger ...
about 1 year ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 0 Future consideration

SevOne DI application if installed on physical appliance may need 'ipmitool' installed as well.

Similar to NMS application, which has 'ipmitool' preinstalled the DI also needs this tool if installed on physical appliance. If someone tries to install it afterwards it fails due to dependency.
about 1 year ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) 0 Future consideration