Sterling Control Center

Gain control and governance over all file transfer

As file transfers connect your processes, they need to be monitored and managed across applications, business units, time zones, locations, customers, and trading partners.

Sterling Control Center gives you a consolidated view of your entire file transfer environment—plus the power to respond quickly and efficiently to exceptions, and changes in your environment. Sterling Control Center helps you:

Improve SLA performance with centralized exception management, notifications, rules, events, and reporting
Meet compliance and regulatory requirements via policy definition, auditing, and reporting
Simplify managing your file transfer network through central configuration management

Sterling Control Center can help you monitor your file transfer processes, and react to exceptions before they turn into problems. Maintain a complete view of your file transfer processes with capabilities that include:

Control Center Console

Provides visibility into file transfer processing across all supported file transfer servers within the network
Displays properties about all managed servers, including Connect® and/or Sterling B2B Integrator version number, license information, and high watermark for servers
Retrieves information about active and completed processes
Suspends, resumes, and deletes processes
Controls individual instances of Connect: Direct
Defines user roles and security
Aligns server views with operational

Monitoring Service

Displays alerts and sends notifications about process failures or processes that might not complete on time
Provides guided topology discovery
Provides SNMP interface to enterprise system management tools
Lets you run system commands and send server commands
Single click problem interrogation
Monitors file transfer activity:
- Server, daemon, and adapter status (up or down) even in clustered environments
- File transfer errors, exceptions and even successes, regardless of platform, location, protocol
- Business processes

Rules Engine

Simply define rules about events and actions similar to e-mail inbox rules (for example, send a notification when a server license is going to expire, or a transfer is late)
Defines match criteria and trigger actions
Defines schedules, processes, file names, and other metadata* all through a simplified GUI interface

Audit and Compliance

Consolidates and normalizes file transfer and process data from all managed servers into a single SQL database
License key management and node discovery
Manages Connect:Direct and Sterling Control Center configurations, including providing change control
Assess security and configuration compliance
Generates over 35 standard reports
Reporting for:
- Activity and throughput analysis
- Operational audit
- Proof of transactions
- Error analysis
- Proof of transactions
- Supports major third-party reporting tools
Control user access to specific data, through criteria based, "data visibility groups"

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