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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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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...
over 1 year 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The WMI Plugin is quite outdated at this point.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...
over 1 year 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...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Planned for future release

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.
over 1 year ago in Instana / SLO/SLI (STAN) 2 Future consideration

Allow installation and patching via sudo rule instead of requiring actual root access

Our security teams do not like providing us access to root to perform installations and patching activities. Their stated preference is that we use sudo rules. Having to coordinate the activity with the Linux admins means double the human resource...
over 2 years ago in Workload Automation 2 Future consideration

Agent liveness check

While Instana Agent offers a health endpoint, this endpoint is only available on the localhost we are seeking a reliable way of validating that the agent is running by ie polling a heartbeat of liveness check without the need for another monitorin...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Agent 3 Functionality already exists

24 hour (daily) granularity on long term views

When looking at a few weeks worth of data in Instana granularity is set to 12 hours.When having a daily seasonality in traffic - which I assume most Instana users have to some extend - this means that data like the number of calls cannot be easily...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Application perspectives 5 Future consideration

Allow multiple Applicable Device Filters for ITNCM-Compliance Rules

When customers create a compliance Rule, they are only offered a single Applicable Device Filter.
over 5 years ago in Tivoli Netcool Configuration Manager 0 Future consideration

Ability to specify OS Type in ITNCM

ITNCM is based upon the concept of distinguishing between devices using Vendor/Type/Model/OS, however, this does not sufficiently take into account that there can be different OS Types.
over 5 years ago in Tivoli Netcool Configuration Manager 0 Not under consideration

ITP Variance Analysis - Add an Option for an "OR" Statement in the Variance Threshold

Currently, the Variance Analysis, when being set up, can only define a threshold as an AND statement (for example, Variance Analysis required if the variance is +-5% AND +-$10,000). Percentage and Numeric thresholds may be vastly different between...
over 1 year ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Planned for future release