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Add a Dry-Run Mode for SevOne Upgrades

Introduce a --dry-run mode that executes the complete upgrade validation and pre-check workflow without modifying the system or starting the upgrade. The dry run should validate: Installer archive integrity and checksum Required files, permission...
26 days ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) Is a defect

Upgrade Precheck Hardening: Detecting Corrupted Installers, Configuration Drift, and Container Image Failures Before Deployment

Problem During a recent SevOne upgrade, the installation failed because of multiple issues that were not detected before execution: Corrupted nms-installer.tar files on appliances Residual files from a previous 7.2.7 upgrade sshd_config incompati...
26 days ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) Is a defect

Configure idle session timeout beyond 8 hours and preserve URL context

Engineers and SREs routinely keep multiple Instana tabs open simultaneously during incident investigations, feature rollout, and long running analyses. The current 8-hour idle session timeout forces a logout for anyone who isn't actively interacti...
4 months ago in Instana / User Interface Is a defect

Support Additive Role Permissions for Users Assigned Multiple Roles

Problem Statement Instana currently evaluates multiple assigned roles using a restrictive (least-permissive) access model. When a user is assigned multiple roles, permissions do not combine into a cumulative set of privileges. Instead, restrictive...
3 months ago in Instana / Access Control Is a defect

Support for Azure Deployments' new requirements

Our IBM SevOne VHD images for Azure deployments are no longer supported. We have lots of customers already on said platform and many new customers might need fresh deployments on newer releases. Per our documentation SevOne supports only Standard_...
6 months ago in SevOne / Cloud Is a defect

Unable to assign User Groups Name containing spaces when creating API Keys

Group name with spaces in them should be allowed. Confirmed by support as well to not work in their environment.See case below.
7 months ago in Workload Automation Is a defect

Webhook Error Check - Feature

Currently NMS accepts carriage return (\n) in any condition (or trigger) message under policies. However, it breaks the webhook mechanism, if the same policy is tied up to the respective webhook. Please add Error check (or Not allowed) when a carr...
over 1 year ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) Is a defect

Improve visibility and clarity for “Unidentified Entity” Events in Instana

Problem Description In Instana, some events appear with the entity labeled as “Unidentified Entity”, even though the platform is still able to resolve and navigate to the correct underlying entity (e.g., host) when the user clicks the link. This c...
4 months ago in Instana / Common Is a defect

Flexibility to adjust the adaptive threshold to take a longer time-frame into account to avoid sharp changes to the adaptive threshold.

The customer requests more flexibility in the method of determining the adaptive threshold and allow the adaptive threshold to take a longer time-frame into account when modifying the threshold. In the cases experiences by the customer, when a tre...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Alert Is a defect

Update DI Device Summary to use High Speed Interface Metric

While reviewing a specific device's Device Summary in DI (7.2.3), the Interface Speed metric seems to be capped at 4294967295, the highest integer able to be stored on 32-bit systems. This seems to be pulling the out-of-the-box z-ifSpeed device in...
about 1 year ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) Is a defect

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