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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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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 ...
over 1 year ago in Instana / IBM i / Sensor 2 Future consideration

Monitor disk IOPs on VMs

To get events on issues with disk IOPs on VMs
2 months ago in Instana / Infrastructure 1 Under review

Give the possibility to copy/duplicate several budget lines in one action

Currently, we can only duplicate one line. Goal is to be able to copy/duplicate several lines in one action. Maybe possible to implement it with the new view thanks to the CheckBox selection present at each line ?
2 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Under review

Possibility to create report on the "Report Collection" table

Give the possibility to create a report allowing to have the information stored in the "Report Collection" Goal should be to obtain easily wat are the selected role assigned to a collection but also the report assigned to it. This will be more eff...
2 months ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Report Studio 0 Submitted

Alert Group Naming

Rather than use the summary of one of the grouped alerts allow the organization to use a combination of alert properties, resource name, highest priority for the group name. Adjust group priority dynamically based on the highest alert property.
2 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 1 Under review

Impact MWM entries export and import option

We are looking for an option to export the all MM entries from GUI. Also, if we have bulk MM entries to add, we are looking for option to add MM entries using excel file import or any such option.
2 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review

We can see the interfaces and their IP in object summary. These IP's are ipv4 need ipv6 aswell.

The SNMP walk file was able to find the IPv6 address for the interface object "GigabitEthernet0/4/0/19.1202". The OID for IPv6 is "'.1.3.6.1.2.1.4.34.1.3.2'".IP-MIB::ipAddressIfIndex.ipv6."24:00:52:00:a0:00:00:00:00:00:00:0d:04:00:0d:b9" = INTEGER...
2 months ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 0 Future consideration

I want the SNMP Working Yes/No filter to be real-time - not based on the last successful discovery

When I set the SNMP Yes / Working No filter, I expect the result to be accurate - not based on the result of the last successful discovery. I should not have to manually check the results of the filter to see if they accurate.
5 months ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 0 Future consideration

Need a way to disable GeoDB database for air-gapped environments

Dear colleagues, Customer uses custom deployment of Instana in air-gapped environment, they see error tat GeoDB database can’t be loaded in eum-acceptor, self-monitoring agent reports it to dashboard and this way the event started to bother them. ...
5 months ago in Instana / Self Hosted 0 Future consideration

Instana kubernetes container memory monitoring improvement

What is your recommendation for monitoring memory usage for kubernetes pods/containers? So far we are using this in Instana: Kubernetes -> Container -> Memory Usage. (Prefer this as compared to pods because sidecars can get in the way) The p...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Kubernetes 4 Future consideration