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Palo Alto & other SDWAN networks can be high-availability and nodes can be pairs to provide for failover, SDWAN device discovery involves incrementing through the device ports for an IP address that allow SNMP communications, client would like to be able to specify IP (VIP) address port/interface to use for discovered SDWAN device, not have to manually edit 1,000+ devices.

It would mean SDWAN devices could be added with HA pair VIP, when failover occurs NMS will keep monitoring the active device.
about 1 hour ago in SevOne / Software Defined WAN (SDWAN) Submitted

Add capability for "rules" in topology to be run manually

Add capability for the "rules" in "topology" to be run manually for debugging reasons. now. it only runs at the end of a job. but some jobs run for hours. e.g. itnm..but the data is already in the resource json. so the rule should be able to run w...
about 1 hour ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps Submitted

Mute alerts through "Application Perspective" as scope in Maintenance Window of Instana

Instana Maintenance Window has scope called "Application Perspective" where in the document says it mutes the alerts but when connected with product team, they say the feature hasn't been implemented. The synthetic tests provide the ability to be ...
about 3 hours ago in Instana / Synthetic Submitted

Expand ServiceNow marketplace Apptio application functionality to allow it to raise tickets from cost savings recommendations

The ability to raise tickets for cost-saving recommendations is a key enabler for managing our vast cloud estate at scale via automation; it was a core pillar of our original Apptio business case. Currently, integration between Apptio and ServiceN...
about 3 hours ago in Cloudability / Vendor Credentials and Integrations Submitted

Current View should be always visible

Currently if you scroll down on any Cloudability report or dashboard (or any other feature) your current view is not visible. To be able to see it you have to scroll up to the top of the page. This creates confusion when browsing through dashboard...
about 4 hours ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards Future consideration

Improve stanctl down behavior

We used stanctl down and rebooted. After system start gateway-controller and gateway pods were running. Then executed stanctl down again and got the following error: root@instanak3s1:~# stanctl down Do you want to shut down the Instana cluster? : ...
about 4 hours ago in Instana / Common Submitted

User should be able to copy or delete multiple dashboard objects at once

Currently users are only able to either copy whole dashboard or copy a single object from the dashboard. Same thing with the deletion. User should be able to copy or delete multiple objects at the same time instead of having to do it one by one
about 4 hours ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards Under review

Do not hide entities that are assigned to inactive teams in search and Quick Find by ID

If I have a entity like a UserStory, Feature etc. where a Team is assigned to the entity, and if the Team is later set as inactive, the entity can no longer be found in search (either by searching for keywords or by searching for the ID number. No...
about 4 hours ago in Targetprocess / Search Submitted

creating log level alerts directly from infra tab

in the log maps it would be easier to create logs directly from clicking logs to alert on , as smart alerts just give us the number of http calls .. we need log alerting
about 8 hours ago in Instana / Logging Submitted

worloads of particular hosts and their health/status

within a zone of hosts , it would be easier to select major hosts and group them together to check the status and health oh those hosts. i did not see that except for the concept of application services, we need a infra pov.
about 8 hours ago in Instana / Infrastructure Submitted