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Edit the evaluation granularity for a smart alert

The minimum evaluation granularity for a smart alert is limited at 5 mins, We need to change it so that we get alerts related to slow calls etc which may not persist for more than 5 minutes. Below is a real time scenario. When will a person be ale...
about 3 years ago in Instana / Alert 0 Functionality already exists

Data Insight Maps : Support for multiple data sources in the same Map.

Larger customers have their network performance data collected and stored using multiple NMS Clusters. It would be deeply beneficial to support adding nodes/paths to a DI Map that represent devices/objects managed across multiple NMS Clusters. Thi...
over 1 year ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) 0 Future consideration

Preserve comments in ITNM's config files

When saving changing to a configuration file via the Discovery Configuration GUI, custom comments within the header of the document are lost.
almost 10 years ago in Tivoli Network Manager 2 Not under consideration

Add alerting condition / Request Impact "Total Calls in Alert Scope" to smart alerts

Using smart alerts in Instana, we are currently able to define the absolute number of requests Impacted within the alerting condition (time threshold). See attachment 01 It is however in most cases much more relevant to set up a threshold for a to...
over 3 years ago in Instana / Alert 1 Not under consideration

Ability to create SmartAlert based of the executed Analyse query

When in unbounded analytics finding an "interesting" situation it would be practical to directly create a SmartAlert based on this to be alerted in case such situation arises again,
over 3 years ago in Instana / Alert 1 Not under consideration

Trigger alert from offline event only if there was no restart after a configurable amount of time

Currently, if I create an alert based on an offline event, the alert will immediately be triggered when the entity goes offline. Often an entity is only restarted, so if an alert is generated that would be a false alert. Instead it should be possi...
over 3 years ago in Instana / Alert / Infrastructure 1 Planned for future release

Support multiple SMTP hosts

When Customer has s Separate SMTP hosts to send email to External and Internal email id, it is currently not possible to configure multiple SMTP IPs on the NMS. So he has to choose either of these(external or internal SMTP Host). This can be achie...
over 2 years ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 0 Not under consideration

negate condition in custom event definition or negate matching operator

In custom event definition it will be good to have negate condition (besides AND) or to have negate Matching Operator for certain metrics. ITM has a NE operator for this purpose.
over 2 years ago in Instana / Alert 1 Functionality already exists

logs when status maps are updated

Currently, logs are only recorded in the audit logs when maps are created, deleted, or renamed. However, there are no logs generated when the contents of status maps, such as nodes or paths, are updated. Implementing such logging would help identi...
10 months ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 0 Future consideration

IBM SevOne NPM TMForum API standard usage and adoption

Create a simpler System to System digital data communication or exchange and scalable integration based on the variety of TMForum APIs (i.e. 621, 639 or 642)
over 1 year ago in SevOne / Other 3 Future consideration