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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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Add Visualization on view as WEEKLY in visualization report

to better visualize data on weekly progress on savings
18 days ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 2 Submitted

Instana must provide a "Matching Operator" that should be a 'NOT' (The 'NOT' is not available in the Instana UI drop down) for host entity types

Bradesco customer is moving from ITM into the realm of Instana. There are currently using several thresholds that involves checking a disk NOT equal to /disk-path-here. For example look at the below ITM situations; i) *IF *VALUE KLZ_Disk.Inodes_Us...
24 days ago in Instana / ITM v6, ITCAM v7, APM v8 2 Submitted

Improve Instana SaaS Account & Billing features by Billing Simulation

The feature of Billing Simulation and Forecast Event Notification in Dynatrace is needed at Instana. - Billing Simulation is displayed until the contract end date, showing three values: upper bound, lower bound, and average. - If an event occurs t...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Observability of AI 1 Submitted

Would like an API call to write to the alert details timeline

currently only users can add to the timeline via the UI. We would like to provide additional information from our impact automations and present it in this area. Please provide an API to do this.
7 days ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Submitted

Managing Validation Rules and Metrics

As a Targetprocess admin, it would be very useful to be able to search Validation Rules and Metrics. One easy way would be using tags like for Automation Rules Even better way would be a search for specific fields used in a VR or Metric Also, bein...
7 days ago in Targetprocess / Search 0 Submitted

Integration with CISCO call manager or Cisco Unified Communications Manager CUCM

We need to integrate CISCO call manager or Cisco Unified Communications Manager CUCM with sevone to get information in below CUCM information - CPU, memory, disk utilization of CUCM nodes. - Active calls count. - Trunk utilization (PRI, SIP, H.323...
7 days ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 0 Submitted

log host agent id to identify slow processing or network congestion in instana module acceptor for dropwizard metric 'out-of-order-sequence'

We are on-premise with LTS-R 293. Monitoring Instana data ingestion we found it handy to log source host or agent id along with dropwizard metric 'out-of-order-sequence' to identify poassible root. We have been told these out-of-order-sequence dat...
7 days ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Submitted

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...
7 days ago in Tivoli Network Manager 2 Submitted

Email - To field displays only a single email address

Description: Currently, when multiple email addresses are configured in the Instana Email Alert Channel (To field), all recipients successfully receive the alert email.However, in the received alert, the “To” field displays only a single email add...
7 days ago in Instana / Alert 0 Submitted

Direct action scheduling - Allow actions to be directly scheduled instead of needing to associate entity to policy and policy to schedule.

Allow actions to be directly scheduled instead of needing to associate entity to policy and policy to schedule. Direct scheduling should override any execution schedule at policy level until the action has been successfully executed. This would al...
12 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 0 Submitted