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Add possibility to have longer retention periods for Logs in cold storage

Many clients have the requirement to keep logs for longer periods in a cold storage, for example 180 days. Main competitors in the Logging space do have this capability. We need to be able not only to store it but also to perform similar actions a...
3 months ago in Instana / Logging 1 Planned for future release

Monitoring capability for IBMi temporary addresss metric

Customer want to monitor temporayry address metric on IBMi(AS400), Because there are some issues for consuming this temporary address. So, it must monitor , but Instana can't monitor this metric. Please add enhanced function for monitoring tempora...
3 months ago in Instana / IBM i 0 Under review

A new ITNM Agent for vendor AKCP to do SNMP based discovery of all sensors supported by site device and build Site to Sensor Topology

Saudi Aramco want to build the end to end topology of the infra monitoring network and corresponding location hierarchy y starting from top level location Division , section , Area , Site and various sensors in each site where each site has a AKCP...
3 months ago in Tivoli Network Manager 0

ITNM polls end devices using multiple SNMP credentials to monitor their subcomponents effectively.

We have Customer Premises Equipment (CPEs) with multiple parts, such as firewalls and routers, that are monitored for their availability using ITNM's SNMP polling feature. Some newer models of these CPEs use NATed IPs, meaning their parts can only...
3 months ago in Tivoli Network Manager 2 Future consideration

Provide an Rest API to add, delete and enrich devices, interface and IP objects.

In our practice we have the need to Add (discover) new devices in an adhoc manner. Additionally, we also need to remove devices that are in the process of upgrades or RMA actions. Once devices are in ITNM we also have a need to manage meta data in...
8 months ago in Tivoli Network Manager 0 Future consideration

If Number of Jobs in Queue is >= threshold then the alert should be triggered.

We have configured some of the jobs visible in Smart alert but still many other jobs are not visible in smart alerts to enable this monitoring parameter. The support team has identified reason behind and it is that only Top 20 Jobs would be visibl...
8 months ago in Instana / IBM i 2 Planned for future release

Monitor subjobs

To be able to monitor subjobs. For example in the bank end of day process, the main job will have many subjobs. In this case the user of the subjobs can be the same with the user of the main jobs, but the jobName and jobNumber for the subjobs can ...
about 2 years ago in Instana / IBM i / Sensor 2 Future consideration

Add ITNM discovery capability for the Nokia CORE network topology

Though we have some (if not all) Nokia core network elements collected from the NetAct collector, we don't have the Core network topology. We understand we need to gather the topology information from multiple sources and stitch up the Core networ...
3 months ago in Tivoli Network Manager 0 Planned for future release

Enhance the collector based Nokia NetAct RAN network topology discovery

The collector based NetAct discovery needs to match the granularity, scope and naming convention that Nokia models and presents the RAN network. In particular, it shall model the network based on the Nokia provided hierarchy of MRBTS- LNBTS-- LNCE...
3 months ago in Tivoli Network Manager 0 Planned for future release

Add an option to change the severity of a built-in events

We need an option to change the severity of a built-in event as per the requirement from the customer. As of now it's fixed, therefore Priority events are getting missed because those are set as warning. For example, message queue, Top active jobs...
6 months ago in Instana / IBM i 3 Not under consideration