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SevOne DI application if installed on physical appliance may need 'ipmitool' installed as well.

Similar to NMS application, which has 'ipmitool' preinstalled the DI also needs this tool if installed on physical appliance. If someone tries to install it afterwards it fails due to dependency.
almost 2 years ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) 0 Future consideration

Allow polling of Strings via SNMP

Today Palo Alto Firewalls running in HA mode can be monitored via OID 1.3.6.1.4.1.25461.2.1.2.1.11 to see their current state of HA. The values returned are strings and can be "disabled", "active", or "passive" Other vendors like F5 have used inte...
almost 2 years ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 0 Future consideration

NMS Device Grouping by Product OID/Device Type

A device post discovery is always defined as a particular device type, such as F5, Cisco ASA, etc. Device Group Membership rules should allow for the ability to use Device Type as a means of membership. Currently I am forced to define what the OID...
almost 2 years ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 3 Future consideration

Updates on the WMI Plugin

The WMI Plugin is quite outdated at this point. Additionally managing the mapping of devices to WMI Proxies is a nightmare, as it can only be done through the API. Additionally, WMI Proxies are set on a per device basis. Ideally I'd like the abili...
almost 2 years ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 0 Future consideration

Disk Trends - Ability to aggregate all disk usage trends into an aggregated single metric

Today, if we look at an AIX host within Instana, all it shows in the prebuilt view are insights from individual file systems in terms of disk I/O. What is missing is an aggregated view that combines all the disk I/O together on the host like is cu...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Planned for future release

Lock only the contracts tab

Customer would like the ability to only lock the contracts tab and not the entire plan 
almost 2 years ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Future consideration

SOL005 observer request

A dynamic virtualized network topology in telco needs sol005 interface.
almost 2 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

Alerts on Apdex/SLA/SLI/SLO

Currently the data is only visible on custom dashboards It would be nice to have the option to alert on this, and also have those more prominent in the Application Perspective Overview.
almost 2 years ago in Instana / SLO/SLI (STAN) 2 Future consideration

Sensor for TMON is needed (z/OS clients running MQ)

We have several clients using TMON instead of Omegamon. We have several clients that run MQ and error messages are written to TMON. Without the ability to monitor TMON, we lack visibility to other issues when they crop up as a result of service de...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / MQ / Sensor 1 Not under consideration

Give Teams option to hide their services & infrastructure from other teams, in case of sensitive data (Deny-listing)

Give Teams option to hide there services & infrastructure from other teams, in case of sensitive data (Blacklisting) Futher improving the granularity of the RBAC in Instana
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Access Control 1 Functionality already exists