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Network Management System (NMS)

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SevOne NMS SelfMon using SNMPv3 OOTB

SevOne NMS SelfMon using SNMPv3 OOTBMore and more security concern and SevOne NMS is no exception and need to comply to SNMP v3
2 days ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 0 Submitted

syslog - 8 level(s) of notification - Customizing the SevOne alert levels for the 8 levels of Syslog Message.

When a syslog message is received by SevOne, we decide what color alert it gets. Currently there are default 8 levels of Syslog. Can those 8 colors be customized per NMS cluster instance? Like make it a whole new setting under "Cluster" > "clus...
3 days ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 0 Submitted

NMS needs to contain functionality pre process SNMP String type values and based on identifiable returned string values assign an integer/number value and record that as the associated indicator metric value.

Within the area of responsibility for Verizon GTS there are several hundred SNMP objects that need to be tracked the return a STRING value instead of a number or integer. Many of the strings are fixed. e.g. a status code of "active" vs "inactive"....
about 1 month ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 2 Future consideration

NMS plugin for Nutanix

Many prospect customer have intention to move out of VMware and 1 of the favorite choice is Nutanix. Demand for Nutanix Plugin to monitor the infrastructure and platform is increasing by day.
11 days ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 0 Under review

Adding Maintenance Window for Object/Object Group

We currently have the capability to add maintenance windows for devices in SevOne. However, we need to extend this functionality to specific interfaces or objects. We request the addition of Maintenance Windows at the object level, allowing for ma...
about 1 month ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 0 Future consideration

Update the NMS to allow customer defined VPC endpoints for AWS Monitoring

To gather monitoring metrics, the SevOne AWS plugin utilizes a set of unknown (to the user) AWS endpoints published by Amazon, and subject to change. https://ip-ranges.amazonaws.com/ip-ranges.json SevOne documentation requires only an outbound 443...
3 months ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 2 Under review

SNMP Polling inside unique contexts should be fixed. Never worked despite having some functionality already built in. Very important to us to monitor BGP Peers in unique contexts.

Routing tables are segregated based on VRF. Sevone NMS only able to see BGP Peering in Default VRF/ Default CONTEXT. This means we are unable to see bgp peers drop to remote networks. This has vast consequences for us. This is no good! Please refe...
26 days ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 0 Future consideration

Alert for device discovery

When the devices were not being discovered properly the user is unable to find out until unless they are facing any issue. So, I'm thinking to have an alert for the device discovery, which helps to notify the user when the discovery was stuck. Thi...
14 days 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...
over 1 year ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 5 Future consideration

IBM SevOne NMS upgrades should allow for limit or throttling of ssh connections

During a production upgrade for IBM SevOne NMS, a Palo Alto Networks firewall adaptive security policy automatically blocked traffic between IBM SevOne NPM peers due to excessive network traffic on TCP port 22. SevOne NPM uses Ansible to perform c...
17 days ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 2 Not under consideration