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Increase Device inventory report raw limit more than 1000.

We have to schedule the device inventory report but facing following challenges . 1. NMS device inventory report limited to export 1000 raw ( devices ). 2. Metadata report from DI doesnt have the default fields like Device Availability which is a ...
almost 2 years ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 0 Future consideration

To be able to use SNMP OIDs in Metadata

For example to have the serial number or software version of devices in SevOne. It would be good if this was based on device type. Each device type would then have its own snmp OID. The serial number would be requested during the discovery.
over 2 years ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 0 Planned for future release

Manually setting sampling rate to SevOne NMS.

When monitoring Sampled NetFlow, It needs to configure the sampling rate on the network device to send it to SevOne.Without this configuration, SevOne will not recognize the sampling rate, and the traffic volume displayed on the Flow widget will b...
8 months ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 0 Future consideration

User onboarding dialog requires selecting preferred timezone which is limited/outdated. Provide a means to customize.

We have customers in a wide variety of geos and tailoring to their needs is necessary and useful.
over 1 year ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 1 Functionality already exists

Synthetic Alerts

Alerts that are defined within SevOne are restricted to the trigger conditions within that policy. The idea here is to be able to define synthetic alerts based on the presence or count of another alert (or multiple). The main requirement is for al...
over 1 year ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 1 Future consideration

Add poll_rate option for Apache HTTPd

Hi, Currently there is no poll_rate option in instana agent configuration for Apache HTTPd plugin (com.instana.plugin.httpd) and therefor instana agent requests server status page every 1 second. Can you please add poll_rate option so that we can ...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Agent 0 Planned for future release

Encrypting passwords in the configuration.yaml

following case TS018716765 it would be important to have the possibility of encrypting passwords in the configuration.yaml file of instana agents.
8 months ago in Instana / Agent 1 Functionality already exists

On-prem agent to ensure no data loss even there is Internet failure or connectivity issues

Customer is on Instana SaaS. Customer environment has frequent internet connectivity failures. In such cases, the Instana agent deployed is not able to send the data collected to Instana SaaS for the duration of the connection failure. To address ...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Agent 1 Not under consideration

Easier agents update in air-gapped environment

Dear colleagues, our customer is using Instana in air-gapped environment. They had system administrators installed static instana agents and want simple procedure to upgrade them by Instana administrators who are responsible for Instana and agents...
8 months ago in Instana / Agent 1 Not under consideration

Both the v2 and v3 API's require customer facing documentation that covers the rate limits for the various endpoints contained where in.

Information such a rate limits for updates to API is a critical oversight in the SevOne published documentation. Customer uses api for a significant portion of SevOne functionality for large updates e.g. device adds, interface description updates ...
over 1 year ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 2 Is a defect