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PINNED Instana on OpenShift Route Flexibility
Hi, My customer has a question about Instana route definitions on OCP. Basically, they have an OCP console address like console-openshift-console.apps.ocpcluster.ibm.com. According to the document; - basedn URL should be like instana.apps.ocpclust...
PINNED Reduce Instana infrastructure footprint by reducing metrics resolution
First, we installed on self-hosted Instana Backend on Docker (on-premies). However, the backend didn't respond to the production load and lost monitoring data. Then, We decided to go forward with Openshift Installation. However, the recommended Op...

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Need Remote Separate CLI component for 9.5V

TS005199456: v9.5 Remote CLI not working We have recently migrated TWS from 9.3 to 9.5V to new servers. Previously we were using remote CLI software to connect composer and edit the jobs via notepad format.
over 3 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

ObjectServer REST API over HTTPS support using CA signed cert on OCP Platform

Product : Watson AIOps 2.1 Event Manager (NOI 1.6.3) on OCPOCP : 4.5 (1) PoC Customer (i.e. US Tier-1 Telco) wants IBM to enable HTTPS for ObjectServer REST API instead of HTTP. At present, ObjectServer HTTP REST service has been exposed and HTTP ...
over 3 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

To enable Headers and 'Store and Forward' mechanism to KAFKA gateway(nco_g_xml)

Product : IBM Tivoli Netcool/OMNIbus Gateway forMessage Bus The Message Bus Gateway(nco_g_xml) is used for our capability to forward messages from Object Server to KAFKA server. But it is found that the headers cannot be set in the gateway and als...
over 3 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

Conversions in NOI

This is for Netcool Operations Insight. Espacially the integration in DASH. Everywhere where the field is populated from the Object Server, I see the conversions. However, the fields in the reports (Seasonal and Related Events) in NOI seems to be ...
over 3 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

IWS Agent Install Account Check Local Admin Group Windows Server

When running the IWS agent install on Windows, we are wondering if the install process could check for the existence of the user account inside a nested Active Directory group inside the local administrators group?Today the install process adds th...
over 3 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Future consideration

Enhance 'Takeover' process in IBM Workload Manager

The 'Hot Standby' process for the Controller needs to be enhanced to allow for a very high availability environment. Specifically the 'TAKEOVER' command should be enhanced so that it functions when there is already an active Controller.
over 6 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Future consideration

apply updatefornewevents at filter level in Event Reader

This request is for Netcool Impact, not Omnibus (Omnibus is selected since there's no Impact option) The enhancement request is for the newly added "updatefornewevents" feature added to the Event Reader property file. The newly added Event reader ...
over 3 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 1 Future consideration

Provide GUI for polling confirmation

Add a GUI option to display which poll definitions and policies apply to a given device or set of devices.
over 6 years ago in Tivoli Network Manager 1 Future consideration

Provide enumeration lookup from within poll definitions

Provide an enumeration lookup from within the Event Summary of a poll definition to convert integer values into meaningful text.
over 6 years ago in Tivoli Network Manager 1 Future consideration

GUI for restarting processes

Provide a GUI to restart ITNM processes. This would be helpful for kill -USR, kill -HUP, and starting failed processes.
over 6 years ago in Tivoli Network Manager 1 Future consideration