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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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IBM Runbook Automation (RBA) - Add support for WinRM connectivity

Why is it useful? - This would give a (more?) secure option to connect to Windows servers, which is built in to the OS, instead of requiring SSH Who would benefit from it? - All customers of IBM Runbook Automation would benefit from this, particul...
about 1 year ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

Latency Timings for PageTransistions

Instana monitors PageLoads and PageTransistions. For PageLoads we see Latency, Traffic, Errors. For PageTransision we also want to monitor Latency as it is available for for Page Loads. We want to have this metrics available for PageTransistions o...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Real User Monitoring 0 Future consideration

Monitoring Active Transactions running at threads in Pods on Kubernetes called as "X-Active" is required.

There are dominent competitors against Instana in Korea Market.All of them are providing the feature called as "X-Active" that monitors active transactions running in pods on Kubernetes whether or not their state are normal or pending and provides...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 3 Future consideration

In the Netcool JDBC Probe it should be possible to configure a limit for the select statement

The Netcool Omnibus JDBC Probe uses a select statement to read event data from a table. The select returns everything that falls under the "where" condition - and all that data is ingested into the memory of the Probe for processing. When the numb...
over 3 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 1 Future consideration

Metadata attribute to be added to Webhook's General Variables to be used as tag for routing alerts, assignments etc.

Most of SevOne customers have alerts integrated into external Event Management or Service Management system. Having tag that indicating to which operations support group the alert is forwarded would help customers to enhance alert processing makin...
about 1 year ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 0 Future consideration

Update The NFVD observer Listener job to connect and process the data by listening of Apache Pulsar topic

As customer is moving from their existing messaging stream from kafka cluster to Apache Pulsar, NFVD observer listener should also made compatible with Apache pulsar message streaming cluster
about 1 year ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 1 Future consideration

ITNM capability to create wireless heatmaps

This RFE is to suggest adding wireless heatmaps to ITNM to enhance mangement of wireless networks. A wireless heatmap would allow end-users to discover wireless access points and create a floorplan to show the signal strength of the access point e...
over 4 years ago in Tivoli Network Manager 0 Future consideration

Session timeout for Netcool/OMNIbus Administrator

From security/compliance perspective, there is a need for enforcing session timeouts for Netcool/OMNIbus Administrator & Event List.In case of any inactivity of user-admin logged into Netcool/OMNIbus Administrator, a session/inactivity timeout...
over 3 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 4 Not under consideration

SNMP Probe able to handle v3 traps with 100+ end points

When using the SNMP Probe to receive v3 traps, these need to be added to the mttrapd.conf file. When the Probe starts, it reads in this file and creates a hash table of the entries. For 5k entries, this process can take 10 to 20 minutes just to lo...
over 3 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 2 Future consideration

Implement Synthetic Monitoring function in Docker (self-hosted) version

Customer is considering using Docker version in DMZ for open internet applications. Main Instana will be migrated into OCP version.
about 1 year ago in Instana / Extend Domains / Platform Coverage 1 Not under consideration