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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 a description field of at least 256 characters to Groups and Policies to allow for annotation of when and why they were created for and what other objects they correspond to.

Just as this description field is used in this idea submission, a description field in the Groups and Policies will allow us to tag them with metadata that will be useful in remembering when and why we created them.
8 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 1 Future consideration

We need the Event for ACE Integration Node offline and should be able to generate separate Alerts for PROD and NON-PROD.

We tried with SystemRule "Offline Event Detection" and Dynamic Focus Query "entity.selfType: IntegrationNode". This is generating Event/Alert when any of the Integration Nodes is down. But we are looking for separate Event/Alert for PROD and NON-P...
2 months ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Submitted

Synthetic Alerts

Alerts that are defined within SevOne are restricted to the trigger conditions within that policy. The idea here is to be able to define synthetic alerts based on the presence or count of another alert (or multiple). The main requirement is for al...
2 months ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 1 Future consideration

Alert on error logs (new logs, log rate)

It would be nice to be able to trigger alerts on different error log metrics like: - new errors (in past week, past month or similar)- error rate So we would like to be notified if new error logs pop up and if the error log rate is increasing or h...
6 months ago in Instana / Alert 1

Supporting the Monitoring Agent for HTTP Server on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS

I checked the KHU module for HTTP Server monitoring and found that when executing ./http_server-agent.sh start, a file named `khu.opt.IBMIHS.conf.httpd.conf` is automatically created, but it should be `khu.opt.HTTPServer.conf.httpd.conf`.
about 1 month ago in Cloud Pak for Multicloud Management Ideas 3 Is a defect

Enable the use of Google Maps for Topology Resource Map

The customer would like to use Google Maps rather than OpenStreetMap for the Resource Map https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/cloud-paks/cloud-pak-aiops/4.6.1?topic=elements-configuring-advanced-settings#resource_map
about 1 month ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review

Allow for selecting multiple blocks for bulk operations

Allow selection of multiple blocks to allow for copy, clone or delete operations.
about 1 month ago in Rapid Network Automation 1 Functionality already exists

Add Network Diagram type functionality to Maps visualizations

Customer is requesting, in addition to the "canvas" and "maps" type of visualization for map device/object data and metrics, to add a network diagram type visualization with the ability to use standard icons for network elements (Routers/Switches ...
3 months ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) 0 Future consideration

Allow for the use of 12:xx to be used in time fields

Since moving to v10.1, we have noticed that the Workload Designer does not allow us to use the "twelve o'clock hour" in any of the time fields. This has been tested by our team at stream level as well as within a run cycle, on the earliest start t...
4 months ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

Add Resources in Join Dependencies - IWA 10.1

Hello We are using IWA 10.1 and want to create JST using more than 40 resources. The composer add command returns the message AWSJOM138E The dependencies defined for job or job stream "******GVC010VERA" are incorrect because they would give a tota...
6 months ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration