CMS Idea Exchange

This is a request to add powershell as supported protocol for Inventory Discovery by Scanner job. We cannot use NTCMD for windows discovery because of firewall restrictions, also NTCMD is not recommended by Micro Focus to use throw firewalls, therefore we want to use Powershell for discovery installed software to be able to use SSA. ... View more

Because PowerCMD is a PowerShell wrapper, IP addresses are generally blocked unless you use SSL or TrustedHost configurations, both of which are fairly uncommon and burdensome to implement.  The Host Connection by PowerShell does reverse the IP and use a FQDN; can this functionality be added to Host Connection by Shell for PowerCMD credentials?  At the very least make it an optional parameter to the job.  This will aid customers who need shell access for discovery but cannot use NTCMD due to security constraints. ... View more

The aging reports are often hard to read, not monitored properly and aging may delete large chunks of data. Working with several UCMDBs I often need to see what has been deleted by enrichments or by mistake and eventually to undelete the deleted Cis. I would love to have the option to see what has been deleted in more detail that the Audit Report available in Custom Reports section, as well as eventually to undelete the CI and relationships in question. Cheers, Petko Popadiyski Freelance Microfocus CMS UCMDB Consulting ... View more

Custom configuration files (e..g. UriEndpointConfiguration.xml, ucs_url_list.conf etc.)  are overwritten, after installing a Content Pack (CP) or Cumulative Update Package (CUP). This behavior generates errors and additional overhead.   Maybe its possible to introduce a switch during the CUP installation, whether custom configuration files should be overwritten or not. Since it is not possible to use such a switch for CP installations, it would be good to install only sample files on the CP if the synthax had changed.  ... View more

Hi all, Our users want to have a real date format in excel export to be able to sort on it. Date exported by uCMDB are just a string. For xemple we have certificats discovery and they want to filter on the expiration date. e BR Thomas ... View more

Often I meet situation when I need make parametrized filter by cardinality in report. For example, recently customer ask me make report about servers and related running software, where would be option find server by name and by name related Running Software. I created parametrised report: In this report I write cardinality 1..* for relation node-RunningSoftware But customer has usecase when he wants see all servers Hostname match to condition as with related runnig software so without this relation. I change cardinality to 0..*, but in this case when customer want find onli servers related to some specific running software he sees all servers that haven't relation with RunningSoftware. So it would be greate to have some way to manage cordinality in parametrised reports. In my case it may be check box in report: "with running software only". If it checked TQL executed with cardinality and then applied cardinality 1*, If uncheck with cardinality 0* applied, and so on. Or maybe it will be two parameters in report Min and Max value for this cardinality. Certain solution can be discussed, but I hope you understand my main idea.     ... View more

UCMDB stores data related to several critical areas of our business.  Therefore, our security team is asking us to secure access to the UI (including the JMX Console) via MFA.  All logins should be candidates to be secured by MFA, including the Admin logins.  We would likely prefer MFA be implemented via SMS to the mobile device listed in the user's profile or via an e-mail to the address listed in the user's profile.  After entering the userid and password on the login, a six digit code would be delivered to the mobile device or e-mail and the user would have to enter that to complete the login to UCMDB. ... View more

Smart Agent is one of the good feature that has been included recently but need some improvements. Smart Agent come very effective in the discovery of the Workstation. Specially, when the users' are on the move. Requirement: If the Agent is not able to communicate via Smart Agent configured in the registry key "SCHEDULER_ProbeBaseURL" then it should communicate with another proble. I don't see in the document, for configuring the secondary probe for Smart Agent. There should be a provision to at least configure a Primary & Secondary probe for the Smart Agent   NOTE: Not looking for a load balancer here because many organisation want cost effective solution but having the need for a external load balancer. ... View more

The display names for services, running software etc. are too short in UCMDB browser. Is there a possibility to display the whole name or to allow viewing more characters? ... View more

The ports should be found using discovery not set as an input into a ucmdb xml file. ... View more

Every administrator, every user often look at metadata attributes about creation, touching, discovery and modification of a CI. Therefore the corresponding attributes should be grouped together (by their names) - thus eliminating need for scrolling up and down and re-focusing eyes. It is called ergonomics. But look at those current attributes (in Properties):   Last Access Time --------------------- LastDiscoveredTime LastDiscoveredBy LastDiscoveredByProbe --------------------- LastModifiedTime Updated By !!! --------------------- Create Time !!! Created By   As you can see the "touching" and "discovery" attributes are grouped together. The same is true for "create" attributes. But Last ModifiedTime and Updated By are not in line. Please rename display names of the attributes to keep the logic and make them to appear one next to another. And improve consistency. The idea is simple - change the display names as follows.   Updated By --> LastModifiedBy  (for better ergonomics, consistency and look-and-feel) Create Time --> Created Time  (for better consistency)   So ne new look would looks like this ...   Last Access Time --------------------- LastDiscoveredTime LastDiscoveredBy LastDiscoveredByProbe --------------------- LastModifiedTime LastModifiedBy --------------------- Created Time Created By   Better, isn't it ? :) Low hanging fruits... The database names can remain intact. PS : And can we be looking forward to the last missing piece - Last Access By attribute ?   Thank you Ivan ... View more

Now REST API support authentication for local users only (or it is a issue?). As a result if we use some external enterprise system to change some data in uCMDB we can't have history who make this change. Or we have to crate local accaunts for each users and authenticate it by them (but as you understand it is not good idea for big enterprise system). ... View more

Hi All, My customer want populate the software installation date in CI Instances.   As I know the Software Installation Date populated in the CI Instances by running the Host Applications by Shell/WMI, Host Resources by Shell/WMI. But customer only want to run the Inventory discovery by Scanner job to populate the  Software Installation Date because run Host Applications by Shell/WMI, Host Resources by Shell/WMI discovery to populate Software Installation Date on installed software Cis as this will creates all unnecessary packages as installed software Cis.   I can see from the QCCR1H108120 it's the same issue, however the issue under investigation. So please help us to check and give some solution for that. Best regards! Tan   ... View more

It would be grate opportunity make authentication with permanent token (do not request token every time) for some users. In case there are some system that use UCMDB as data source it would save some resources and make using REST API easy. ... View more

Currently RESTful API productivity is restricted by 15 requests per second. But our Service Management system (not MF Service Manager) that use uCMDB as main CMDB and interact with one by JAVA API sent about 6000 requests per second. To be able to migrate from JAVA API to REST API (as I understand it is general dstrategy now) REST API poroductivity must be impruved to maintain 6000 requests per minute and request time should not be greater than 0,1 sec. ... View more

As impruve previous idea about retrieving data from reports by Rest API. It would be great to have ability use parametrized filters by REST API. It make easy configurable flexible API in the fact. ... View more

Now we can retrieve by REST API results of query only, it would be helpfull function to retrieve results of reports too. It make REST API more effective and easy configurable to retrieve data you need. You can make many operation to merge data and calculate it in GUI. ... View more

Enrichment rules are very powerful but at the same time quite limited. Here is a list of things I would like to get improved: - There is not way to clear an attribute - Queries having an "or" cardinality don't work - There is a weird error when adding a node condition to a node not related yet - There is no way to compare attribute values in join relationships: greater than, lower than, string contains string, a list of strings contains a string , etc. - Adding a relationship to a non query-related node involve creating a dummy join relationship - There should be an easy way to "move" a relation. Currently, 2 enrichment rules are needed - There should be a "run" button. Often, enrichment rules are to fix things and they have to run once - As in the modeling studio, the "Change query node type" should be available - Add to possibility to rename an enrichment rule ... View more

The following logs do not conform to the standard log file format and so cannot be parsed by the Excel log parser: wrapper.log store_install_data.log store_master_key.log postgresql.log store_store_pass.log checking_thread.log normalization.log probe_post_upgrade.log probe_upgrade.log probe-adhoc.log probeGw-taskResults.log probeinfra.log XmlEnricherService.log probemgr*.log Please add the standard UCMDB formatting to these logs so that they may be parsed by the new excel log parser. ... View more