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Administration & Configuration

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ControlCenter ActiveAlerts can be assigned to dedicated Person(/Admin)

ControlCenter ActiveAlerts can be designed to a dedicated Person/Admin.
about 6 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Administration & Configuration 0 Functionality already exists

Requesting archiving for partitioned database

System Settings, database has archiving functionality for non-partitioned databases. We are requesting a similar utility be designed for partitioned databases.
about 6 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Administration & Configuration 0 Functionality already exists

assign/choose a TLS protocol level from within configCC.sh

o I would like to see the ability to assign/choose a TLS protocol level from within configCC.sh during secure setup of secure ports (Apache and Jetty setup), such as TLSv1.2 to replace the default of TLSv1.0
about 6 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Administration & Configuration 0 Planned for future release

Cognos reporting does not return MQ return codes - Refer PMR 34702,442,000

When we run Cognos report, we filter based on Event Return Code under MQMFT FIle Transfer Report, it never comes with return codes as 40.We can see the return codes coming as 0,1,2 and 8 instead of standard MQ FTE return codes like 20,40 etc.
about 6 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Administration & Configuration 0 Not under consideration

Ability to generate alerts only when adapters on all nodes are down.

Currently we have the ability to get notified whenever the adapters are down, however we need to get alerts only when all the adapters in a cluster are down rather than getting notified when an adapter on a particular node is down.
about 6 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Administration & Configuration 0 Not under consideration

Add DVG to SNMP Alerts

We have a requirement to send DVG in a SNMP trap; DVG is available in the event but there is no field in SNMP to reflect that. Could you please add DVG in the SNMP trap.
about 6 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Administration & Configuration 0 Not under consideration

Control Center stopEngine.bat -np change to soft stop

Please change the stopEngine.bat -np to a soft stop. Currently using this command causes a hard stop to the engine. In my experience, it is not good pratice to do a hard stop on the engine service. This should only be used if a soft stop is not wo...
about 6 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Administration & Configuration 0 Not under consideration