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IPv6 address discovery support was added to the NMS but the discovery of IPv6 topology links was not implemented. Customers rely on topology discovery and with IPv6 adoption ever increasing, it's important that NMS topology discovery is updated to support discovery for IPv6 relationships. Verizon needs this implementation to utilize the topology feature.

IPv6 address discovery support was added to the NMS but the discovery of IPv6 topology links was not implemented. Customers rely on topology discovery and with IPv6 adoption ever increasing, it's important that NMS topology discovery is updated to...
9 months ago in SevOne / Other 0 Future consideration

Self Service SSO Capabilities in the UI

Self-Service SSO configuration in the portal, this feature would allow customers to enable or disable SSO across all users in their account directly from the portal.
4 months ago in NS1 Connect / Managed DNS 0 Under review

Add download feature inside the certificates tab

Add the functionality to be able to download a full list of certificates from the portal.
4 months ago in NS1 Connect / Managed DNS 0 Under review

Allow shared users or team admins to edit and delete anomaly alert configurations

Currently, anomaly alert configurations appear to be editable only by the user who originally created them. This creates an operational risk when the alert owner leaves the team, changes roles, or is unavailable, because other shared users or team...
4 months ago in Cloudability / Anomaly Detection 0 Submitted

User should be able to see the entities explicitly tagged to a instana team

When part of a team, users should be able to use the filter function to search for specific team tag. If an entity/dashboard/AP has been tagged to a team, that team tag should be searchable in the UI to show the entities associated to that team. T...
4 months ago in Instana / Access Control 1 Future consideration

Add additional configuration possibilities to the Ansible Inventory authentications

At this time the Ansible Inventory authentications only provide Private Key and Inventory fields. This idea is add some more fields at an authentication level:- Username / Password, to allow the user to dynamically override only the hostname defin...
4 months ago in Concert Workflows 1 Submitted

Ability to specify component level PVC starting capacity for all supported stateful components (that require a PVC).

Multiple reasons, primarily though, improved install experience in an automated flow, and also in cases of public cloud deployments where configuring storage class IOPS and throughput settings for AIOps means enforcing a minimum volume capacity, e...
about 1 year ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review

Support the ability for an Operations Engineer / SRE to set VolumeAttributesClassName on PVCs and ensure the AIOps operators do not reset or override those settings.

This is important in Cloud storage environments, e.g. AWS, to be able to cost-effectively set and tune IOPS and throughput settings to meet AIOps component requirements and in a way that is supported by cloud provider storage solutions. Without th...
about 1 year ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review

Monitoring of Specific Local Network Port and Distant (reacheable port)

We request a Plugin that would basically check the status of a specified local port or a reacheable port from where the agent is residing. USE CASE #1 ( Local Port ) This would be usefull to validate the status of an application port . Sometimes a...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Sensor 1 Not under consideration

Enable Synthetic Test Metric Collection for Custom Dashboards

Summary:We would like to request the ability to capture and store custom metrics gathered during the execution of synthetic tests in IBM Instana. These metrics, which can be extracted from SQL queries, API responses, or other synthetic test result...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Synthetic 5 Functionality already exists