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ScheduleExtractor

D298: Hi All, we are using the schedule_extract.cmd for schedule extracting. Unfortuatelythe commandline tools allows only one schedulename argument.(The only way to ...
Suggested by: Hidden identity (27 Apr, '16) Upvoted: 27 Jan, '21 Comments: 0
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Workflow Designer Quick Button

D215: I would like to see a quick button on the schedule and/or job master menus that would automatically take me to the workflow designer. It's more of a convenience ...
Suggested by: Hidden identity (27 Apr, '16) Upvoted: 27 Jan, '21 Comments: 0
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Search Operations by command line string

D156: In Operations views, provide a String Search option to find jobs containing specific strings in their command lines (e.g., *ged or *sen and etc...) Must ...
Suggested by: Hidden identity (27 Apr, '16) Upvoted: 27 Jan, '21 Comments: 0
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User defined Sort order for Categories in Self Service

D485: Today when we create categories in Self Service, they are sorted in alphabetical order of their names. Thats not what we want to have. It would be desirable to ...
Suggested by: Hidden identity (27 Apr, '16) Upvoted: 27 Jan, '21 Comments: 0
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File Watcher Job Action Advanced Failure Criteria?

So I really wanted to use this job action today since I'm at a site with 15.3. Here's my situation: I am attempting to download files every day from an FTP site ...
Suggested by: Hidden identity (15 Jan, '16) Upvoted: 27 Jan, '21 Comments: 0
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Self Service | User Input Type

Could we also include a check box option and radio button option for User Input Type of Self Service? I would assume that both would use a mechanism similar to the ...
Suggested by: Hidden identity (15 Jan, '16) Upvoted: 09 Mar, '21 Comments: 0
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File Watcher Job Action - check for X seconds/minutes

Instead of only a start/end time for file watching, it would be nice to have the ability to watch for X seconds/minutes before the it stops watching. Thanks, Josh
Suggested by: Hidden identity (15 Jan, '16) Upvoted: 09 Jan Comments: 0
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Notification Manager "missing" triggers

I just realized that in Notification Manager there is no capability for 'Job Completion Complex Expressions', or Exit Description' for an Event. The WSUS(Windows ...
Suggested by: Hidden identity (15 Jan, '16) Upvoted: 27 Jan, '21 Comments: 0
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Windows Batch User account integration with AD

| 8/26/2014 9:34:42 | [email protected] | Guam, George, and I are at Data Processing Inc (DPI) this week. They have a request which lead to multiple requests. ...
Suggested by: Hidden identity (14 Jan, '16) Upvoted: 27 Jan, '21 Comments: 0
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Capture parsed job output into Global variable or schedule/job instance

I'd like to take output from a job and capture some piece of that to help pass along to subsequent jobs. This would be more dynamic than parsing output to determine ...
Suggested by: Hidden identity (22 Aug, '19) Upvoted: 17 Aug, '22 Comments: 1
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Duplication Notification Trigger - Notification Manager

D249: Be able to replication/copy a notification trigger and its Defined Notifications rather than creating a new one from scratch.
Suggested by: Hidden identity (27 Apr, '16) Upvoted: 27 Jan, '21 Comments: 1
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SMA Self Service-need a way to control the display order

D421: All buttons are placed in order by their creation date. We need a way to control the display order otherwise the Buttons quickly get placed in a random order. ...
Suggested by: Hidden identity (27 Apr, '16) Upvoted: 27 Jan, '21 Comments: 1
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Job Sub-Type for SMARunJasperReportsJob

Hi Guys, I've already discussed this with Francios a bit. About 1/3 of what we normally do at a Corelation site is automating Jasper Reports. The Run Corelation Job ...
Suggested by: Hidden identity (15 Jan, '16) Upvoted: 27 Jan, '21 Comments: 1
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Create a null job type for all hosts, to allow for "prerun only" jobs

Sometimes it is useful to separate preruns from the jobs that require them, either to apply the same preruns to multiple jobs without rerunning them, or to simplify ...
Suggested by: Hidden identity (15 Jan, '16) Upvoted: 02 May, '22 Comments: 1
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Use Encrypted Tokens in Notification Manager

Hello, We would like to use Encrypted Token defined in Global Properties in Notification Manager In "Run Command" for example When we use Encrypted Token, the ...
Suggested by: Hidden identity (13 Nov, '20) Upvoted: 02 Jul, '21 Comments: 0
Collecting community feedback Automation Brick OpCon Security

Display the Next run schedule time for jobs with "Run again" option

When a job with recurring option has run at least one time, in all interfaces (EM, Solution Manager), the execution hour (in latrix or operations view) is the LAST ...
Suggested by: Hidden identity (26 Oct, '20) Upvoted: 07 Feb, '22 Comments: 0
Collecting community feedback OpCon Web UI

Forecast tool to show predicted jobs running during a time slot.

The goal is to obtain jobs running during a maintenance time window (for a machine, or an application : i.e. filtering capabilities should be included). when ...
Suggested by: Hidden identity (26 Oct, '20) Upvoted: 16 Feb, '21 Comments: 0
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Use the Agent's UTC time offset to automatically adjust start times

Daylight savings time is not observed by all time zones. Not only that but the date the time changes is not consistent across time zones. If an Agent is running on a ...
Suggested by: Hidden identity (03 Aug, '20) Upvoted: 16 Mar Comments: 0
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Notification Manager - Trigger Based on End Code

We would like Notification Manager to be able to have notifications triggered based on a job's end code. We have a few scripts that depending on how the script runs, ...
Suggested by: Hidden identity (26 Dec, '19) Upvoted: 11 Feb, '21 Comments: 0
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Automated process that will extract Audit data daily to a log file.

We would like to have the ability to nightly be able to generate the prior days audit logs and have them placed into a daily file. They can still reside in the ...
Suggested by: Hidden identity (13 Dec, '19) Upvoted: 12 Mar, '21 Comments: 0
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Mask user/pass information in LookFor* job outputs

User/pass info is in clear text in the job outputs of LookFor* jobs (RSJ 19). Let's mask it please.
Suggested by: Hidden identity (15 Nov, '19) Upvoted: 27 Jan, '21 Comments: 0
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[[$SCHEDULE DATE yymmdd(bom)]]

Right now we have to hard code the (1st) of the month with several system properties when answering prompts. We have (-/+eom) offsets it would be nice to have a (bom) ...
Suggested by: Hidden identity (10 Oct, '19) Upvoted: 27 Jan, '21 Comments: 0
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Clear Resource Reservation Lock

We experienced an issue where a user removed the resource dependency on a daily job after it had already set a reservation lock (the resource was already in use by ...
Suggested by: Hidden identity (18 Sep, '19) Upvoted: 22 Aug, '22 Comments: 0
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Expandable forms/fields in Self Service

I'm running into a situation where it would be helpful to have self service act as a form for input information and be able to perform OpCon events based on each ...
Suggested by: Hidden identity (11 Sep, '19) Upvoted: 27 Jan, '21 Comments: 0
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Re-Name of SMA File Transfer in Enterprise Manager

Currently, when a SMAft job is created in Enterprise Manager, it is listed as a File Transfer. I would like it to be renamed to "SMA File Transfer (SMAft)" to allow ...
Suggested by: Hidden identity (05 Sep, '19) Upvoted: 27 Jan, '21 Comments: 0
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Specify instances to upgrade with MSI

Right now, if we have 2 LSAM agents on a machine, if we run the MSI for LSAM it will automatically upgrade the first one. Currently, there is no way to specify which ...
Suggested by: Hidden identity (13 Aug, '19) Upvoted: 27 Jan, '21 Comments: 0
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Menu Option to access Community Portal

Allow OpCon to access the Community Portal from within Enterprise Manager or Solution Manager. The user would be logged in behind the scenes when they login to ...
Suggested by: Hidden identity (07 Aug, '19) Upvoted: 27 Jan, '21 Comments: 0
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Parent Schedule Job Actions include nested Jobs

If a Schedule which contains Container Jobs/SubSchedules is clicked and Update Job statuses is selected, there should be an option to perpetuate the command through ...
Suggested by: Hidden identity (07 Aug, '19) Upvoted: 27 Jan, '21 Comments: 0
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Create Frequency from Frequency Manager

Can we add the ability to create a new frequency from within Frequency Manager?
Suggested by: Hidden identity (02 Jul, '19) Upvoted: 27 Jan, '21 Comments: 0
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Solutions Manage: Self Service - Create buttons with SMADDI

Similar to OPC-I-351 (https://smartideas.ideas.aha.io/ideas/OPC-I-351) , it would be useful if there were a way to export or import buttons, in similar way we could ...
Suggested by: Hidden identity (24 Jun, '19) Upvoted: 27 Jan, '21 Comments: 0
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Self Service Default Values

There is another idea out there that has this as part of it, but I wanted to split it off and make it its own. I think it would improve the process for the end users ...
Suggested by: Hidden identity (10 May, '19) Upvoted: 09 Mar, '21 Comments: 0
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Self Service - Display Global Variable

I have a button set up where an end user passes a check number to it. Once they submit, the value they typed gets passed to a global variable. There have been many ...
Suggested by: Hidden identity (10 May, '19) Upvoted: 27 Jan, '21 Comments: 0
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Option to ignore invalid/self-signed certificate errors in SMALDAPMon SSL/TLS connections

This is exactly as it sounds - an option to ignore invalid/self-signed certificate errors in SMALDAPMon SSL/TLS connections. This would be very useful and resolve an ...
Suggested by: Hidden identity (03 Apr, '19) Upvoted: 27 Jan, '21 Comments: 0
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Customized Size Option for Solution Manager Debug Logs

When debug is turned on for Solution Manager it creates huge logs. The api and dependencies logs that are generated can easily reach multiple gigabytes in size. ...
Suggested by: Hidden identity (26 Mar, '19) Upvoted: 27 Jan, '21 Comments: 0
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Expression, Global and Instance Property resolution "preview"

It would be very handy to be able to see the value of a global property when hovering over it in various windows. For example, recently, I was building a cmd job and ...
Suggested by: Hidden identity (25 Mar, '19) Upvoted: 27 Jan, '21 Comments: 0
Collecting community feedback OpCon Web UI

Solution Manager Console - API Calls

A console to submit events is a nice addition. It would be even better if we could submit API calls from the console. Especially if we could test the command and get ...
Suggested by: Hidden identity (13 Mar, '19) Upvoted: 27 Jan, '21 Comments: 0
Collecting community feedback OpCon Web UI

LDAP or Active directory sync with nesting AD group

We use LdapMon to sync a active directory group with a role in Opcon. Actually the active directory can contain only Users. I wish I could add existing Active ...
Suggested by: Hidden identity (25 Feb, '19) Upvoted: 27 Dec, '22 Comments: 0
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Global property usable as job event value

It would be useful if we could use global properties as the value iin the job event definition. For example, if we had a job configured to mark itself, and a number ...
Suggested by: Hidden identity (22 Jan, '19) Upvoted: 27 Jan, '21 Comments: 0
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Rights for Global Properties

Currently there is just the option to grant rights to ALL global properties, but not to selected once. This does cause issues as I cannot allow users or events (which ...
Suggested by: Hidden identity (29 Oct, '18) Upvoted: 07 Apr, '22 Comments: 0
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Named Instance : Predecessor dependencies with named instance

In the case of a design that works with a normal schedule and predecessor named instance schedule, the named instance predecessor MUST BE fill in the normal ...
Suggested by: Hidden identity (16 Oct, '18) Upvoted: 27 Jan, '21 Comments: 0
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Audit history for Service Request changes

I just realized today that there is no auditing available if someone makes a change to a Service Request button. With OpCon Deploy you would have the ability to see ...
Suggested by: Hidden identity (10 Aug, '18) Upvoted: 27 Jan, '21 Comments: 0
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Improve Escalation to support Text, Events, and CMD

Escalation currently only supports Emails. This greatly limits usability because it is tied to one address in the User Account. To Support Text, and third party ...
Suggested by: Hidden identity (07 Aug, '18) Upvoted: 27 Jan, '21 Comments: 0
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Make Date Collapsable in Solution Manager Processes View

When working on my mobile phone in the Processes view, it is almost impossible to search for a schedule because the Date section's minimum width still takes up half ...
Suggested by: Hidden identity (27 Jul, '18) Upvoted: 27 Jan, '21 Comments: 0
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Secure a user's default password

We have data center clients who have started using Solution Manager and Self Service. During the setup of their users, the automated temp passwords were emailed to ...
Suggested by: Hidden identity (25 Jul, '18) Upvoted: 27 Jan, '21 Comments: 0
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Generate perldoc like doc from opcon database

Hello, Sometime schedule are really complicated. It could be nice if we could generate a doc from database : From top schedule, list jobs. For each jobs, show ...
Suggested by: Hidden identity (13 Jul, '18) Upvoted: 27 Jan, '21 Comments: 0
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Provide a test capability when defining a Remote Instance host

When defining a Remote Instance host definition it would be beneficial to have a test button to verify the connection details are correct. At present you have to ...
Suggested by: Hidden identity (13 Jun, '18) Upvoted: 27 Jan, '21 Comments: 0
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SMASmartEmail Installation Enhancement - Userid Password confusion

From: Mike Grieco Sent: Wednesday, June 6, 2018 4:20 PM To: William Pool Subject: smasmartemail 18.1 Hi William I think we spoke to this before, but why doesn't the ...
Suggested by: Hidden identity (11 Jun, '18) Upvoted: 27 Jan, '21 Comments: 0
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Authentication for SMTP connection in Hung Scripts

Improve hung scripts to allow an authenticated smtp connection (as Notify handler does). sendemail.exe is able to use authentication, but our scripts don't allow it. ...
Suggested by: Hidden identity (08 Jun, '18) Upvoted: 27 Jan, '21 Comments: 0
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Embedded Scripts Comparison tool

It would be very useful to have a side-by-side file comparison tool for files stored in the Embedded Script Repository.
Suggested by: Hidden identity (06 Jun, '18) Upvoted: 09 Mar, '21 Comments: 0
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Self Service, job Completed with error - more information

When looking at the execution history of a Button in Self Service, it is hard to clear error messages for Administrators in an effort to solve the issue. Right now we ...
Suggested by: Hidden identity (23 May, '18) Upvoted: 09 Mar, '21 Comments: 0
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