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Add support for the Hypervisor HPE Morpheus VM Essentials

A number of customers are migrating to HPE Morpheus VM Essentials as VMware vSphere alternative, partly supported by the GSIs or as part of Managed Services. Please add the support for this this hypervisor as it's gaining traction in the market.

Modification requested for the behavior of the "Default event deduplication policy"

We request that the behavior of the "Default event deduplication policy" be adjusted to exclusively handle deduplication, and not the Event to Alert Promotion.As of AIOps version 4.10, this policy has become mandatory for events to be promoted as ...
4 days ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps Under review

Support MSSQL Local Windows Authentication with FQDN-based Certificates

Description: Today the Instana MSSQL sensor in local mode with Windows Authentication validates the server certificate against the machine’s hostname. This fails in environments where SQL Server is configured to issue certificates that contain onl...
9 days ago in Instana / Sensor Under review

The gateway for message bus should flag events which were not successfully passed to an HTTP endpoint

We are using the gateway to forward events to an HTTP endpoint as JSON webhooks. The processed events are flagged using the "AFTER IDUC DO" clause.The gateway directly flags the events after they were read and before any HTTP sent attempt. If the ...
9 days ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps Under review

Need to organize the Agent installation screen differently

As we have added more and more installation options, the installation screen as shown in the attachment has gotten unruly. There are two major problems. First, we now have so many options that you require a scroll bar to see all of the viable opti...
11 days ago in Instana / Agent Under review

Omnibus needs to move away from Java 8 just like Impact has to the newer Semeru Runtime versions

IBM has already modernized Netcool Impact by adopting newer IBM Semeru Runtime releases, gaining improved security posture, performance, and long‑term platform viability. Netcool/OMNIbus, as a core component of the Netcool suite and a mission‑crit...
14 days ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps Under review

Implement "Hover Tooltip" for truncated text in Event Viewer columns

In the IBM Netcool/OMNIbus WebGUI Event Viewer (running within Dashboard Application Services Hub), column widths are often insufficient to display the full string of data for fields like Summary, Node, or custom Extended Attributes. Currently, wh...
16 days ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps Under review

Enable monitoring of interface flapping.

Clients can monitor for interface integrity.
16 days ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) Under review

Allow Automatic Definition of AIOps Applications (Services) based on predefined rules / templates

AIOps provides various template mechanisms to automate the creation of Resource Groups, however Applications/Services must currently be defined "by hand" individually by an administrator. This is not feasible for customers that have many (hundreds...
17 days ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps Under review

Add support for Cisco SDA (Software Defined Access)

Fidelity is not using ACI but rather SDA. They would like to be able to monitor SDA
17 days ago in SevOne / Software Defined Networking (SDN) Under review