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SevOne

Improve SNMP walk API endpoint in SevOne NPM

There should be a v3 API endpoint to run a SNMP walk command from any peer to a device. Enhancing /api/v3/metadata/devices/snmpwalk might work for this purpose. Currently, it does not take a peer ID as an argument. The ability to specify a specifi...
13 days ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) Needs more information

"Di Device Summary" Customize or Disable

The "Device Summary" option works fine in a "small environment". When there are thousands of devices / thousands of objects for a device this functionality is incredibly painful. Either it should be able to be customized or disabled completely. Fo...
15 days ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) Needs more information

Support for GCP PubSub in addition to Kafka on SevOne Data Publisher

We would like to make use of the performance data exposure using a message bus for northbound data transfer . It is much cheaper to use Google PubSub instead of a managed kafka instance . We would like IBM to develop an SDK/gRPC based PubSub conne...
19 days ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) Needs more information

Reachability Metric

SevOne has a unique way of providing "Availability". What is desperately required is a "Reachability" metric that is just a basic snmp test that quickly highlights "possible network issue, device is down, credentials incorrect etc (and done from t...
20 days ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) Needs more information

Platform Clustering (S1NPM-109893 / S1NPM-110145) — Request: Configurable SelfMon Cluster Member Auto‑Discovery (Enable/Disable Toggle)

IBM introduced an enhancement where SelfMon automatically discovers all members of the cluster. In the current implementation, this behavior appears to be always enabled and there is no supported way to disable it. This is impacting/breaking our o...
27 days ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) Needs more information

Expose Indicators Per Second (IPS) per Device for Reporting

The Indicators Per Second (IPS) metric is currently visible in the Device Manager page in SevOne NMS/Data Insight, but it is not available as a reportable indicator within the SevOne reporting. It cannot be used in Instant Reports or DI Performanc...
2 months ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) Needs more information

Provide safe way to execute certain tasks which had been automated prior to 7.0 as a root user

Root access removed in NMS 7.0+ breaks customer automation workflows, particularly certificate renewal automation. As certificate lifecycles decrease, manual renewal becomes unsustainable without a least-privilege alternative. Operational Risk Cer...
3 months ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) Needs more information

Enable adding synthetic indicators to object types created by IP-SLA Poller

When IP-SLA Polled is turn on it generates object types with multiple indicators but Add Synthetic Indicator Type is greyed out.
8 months ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) Needs more information

System Uptime value should be displayed in years/week/days/hours/minutes.

The default Network Device Summary report in Data Insight displays the System Uptime value in seconds as the default setting. The idea is for the System Uptime value to be displayed in years/week/days/hours/minutes instead, so that it is easier to...
6 months ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) Needs more information

More customization to Goal Lines based on Metadata values

Performance Metrics in many visualizations allow to use Goal Lines, set their colors and units. However, this same level of customization is not possible for Goal Lines meant for Metadata values. Feature parity for them would be extremely useful.
6 months ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) Needs more information