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PINNED Configure maintenance flyouts
User interface settings include the option “Show maintenance notes”. How can I as onprem-backend administrator configure and switch on such flyouts to inform my users about upcoming maintenance?

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WAS/JBoss heap size alerting

We would like the ability to have events, so that we can alert, on the heap size of both Websphere and JBOSS JVM's so that we can be alerted if the size approaches the maximum amount.
about 2 years ago in Instana / Alert 1 Functionality already exists

Consider disabling file serving and directory browsing (fileServingEnabled & com.ibm.ws.webcontainer.disallowAllFileServing)

According to Visa Security policies fileServingEnabled property should be disabled on all the /WEB-INF/ibm-web-ext.xmi' file(s). This property is managed by global property which is com.ibm.ws.webcontainer.disallowAllFileServing. If this is set tr...
about 2 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 8 Functionality already exists

Enable custom Instana SDK instrumentation on an individual pod

Adding custom spans to Java applications using the Instana SDK requires configuration on the agent. https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=references-configuration-based-java-trace-sdk#example When the Instana agent is dep...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Tracing 1 Functionality already exists

Monitor number of pods in a specific namespace in Kubernetes

It is useful to monitor the number of pods especially if the pods reaches a threshold.
about 2 years ago in Instana / Kubernetes 4 Functionality already exists

Create a new "Search ASM" widget for ASM topology search in DASH which should be case insensitive and searches using "NodeClickedOn" event and able to search node name with exact match

Create a new "Search ASM" widget for ASM topology search in DASH which should be case insensitive and searches using "NodeClickedOn" subscribed event and able to search node name with exact match.
over 3 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 2 Functionality already exists

QoS Reporting to be enabled on SDWAN Health Dashboard for CCSDWAN customers

Existing polling-configured APIs are unable to obtain these metrices. For e.g Post Policy Rate, etc. So need a solution to enable a QOS reporting.
about 1 year ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 1 Functionality already exists

DWC - Manage Engine function was not enabled for Developer and Operator role to create Engine

DWC server - ttfai740OS Version - AIX 7.2.0.0DWC version - 9.5 FP02 Manage Role Section --> Only Administrator role have access to "Manage Engine" function, there are many application teams in our environment, we had plan to assign Developer an...
over 3 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Functionality already exists

Trap correlation and Send SNMP trap based alerts to Netcool or any event Manager

Sevone has the ability to receive the traps and generate alerts but its lack to send this alert to any of the event manager via Trap . Because of this trap processing bears no value . As an end user they prefer to see both threshold and trap based...
about 1 year ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 1 Functionality already exists

Give Teams option to hide their services & infrastructure from other teams, in case of sensitive data (Deny-listing)

Give Teams option to hide there services & infrastructure from other teams, in case of sensitive data (Blacklisting) Futher improving the granularity of the RBAC in Instana
about 1 year ago in Instana / Access Control 1 Functionality already exists

Add functionality to retrieve the Instana agent configuration file content in the Instana Agent UI

When troubleshooting Instana agent configurations then it is necessary to have SSH access to the host or Kubernetes cluster. If the UI had this feature then I could get the configuration file with a click of a button which would speeds up troubles...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Agent 0 Functionality already exists