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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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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.
over 1 year ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) 0 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...
over 1 year 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
over 1 year ago in Instana / Access Control 1 Functionality already exists

Ability to create a compliance policy with parameter(s) in compliance manager

Goal is to create a compliance policy where you can set values for validation and remediation on execution.
over 1 year ago in Tivoli Netcool Configuration Manager 0 Future consideration

FR - Python sensor support for Tornado 6

At this moment instana python sensor it's only support Tornado bellow version 6.0.0 but we need to update and app that depends on Tornado 6.1 and we need the Instana monitoritation. It's possible add support for Tornado >= 6.0.0 to Instana Pyth...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Python / Tracing 3

Gateway for Message Bus (XML Gateway) Should Allow Inclusion of Custom Headers When Running in HTTP Transport Mode

Allow inclusion of custom headers when the Gateway for Message Bus (nco_g_xml) is running with Gate.XMLGateway.TransportType : 'HTTP'Most significantly, an authentication header. Currently per IBM support, only basic authentication is supported, a...
almost 4 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 1 Not under consideration

Openstack agent for CP4MCM

On Telco to support network virtualization is very common to use Openstack as the cloud operations which operators runs their VNFs (Virtual Network Functions) and is very important to monitor this environment. A CP4MCM agent for Openstack can help...
almost 4 years ago in Cloud Pak for Multicloud Management Ideas 0 Not under consideration

Provide a means of formatting time properties in Webhook workflows

As a user I would like the ability to format time properties for webhooks as Unix epoch milliseconds rather than iso8601, so I can store the action times in an external systems and plot them on a timeline, allowing me to correlate when the Turbono...
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Custom Workflows 1 Future consideration

Add functionality to retrieve the Instana agent configuration file content in the Instana Agent UI

When troubleshooting Instana agent configurations then it is necessary to have SSH access to the host or Kubernetes cluster. If the UI had this feature then I could get the configuration file with a click of a button which would speeds up troubles...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Agent 0 Functionality already exists

Allow Impact role 'impactWebServiceUser' to be able to run API Calls

Currently only one user group 'impactAdminUser' is a having access to run REST API in Netcool/Impact. Role 'impactAdminUser' has elevated permissions and dont want this permissions for users who just want to run REST API calls. Could you please se...
over 1 year ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration