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Enable Custom Certificate Duration and Support External Certificate Issuers for All Components in Cloud Pak for AIOps 4.x

During Cloud Pak for AIOps 4.x installation, the certificate creation step fails because the application default certificate duration does not align with the bank’s certificate manager requirements. Specifically, the default duration conflicts wit...
8 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review

Reflect scaling actions performed directly from AWS Management Console to the list of successful actions and Cost savings aggregated in ThoughtSpot

When the instance type of an AWS EC2 server is changed directly from the AWS Management Console (instead of through Turbonomic), please ensure that the following items are properly reflected: In the list of successful actions Cost savings calculat...
6 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud IaaS 0 Under review

Description of the workstations viewable from anywhere other than just "List Workstation" view

We utilise Dynamic pools that submit jobs to available resources (Actual workstations) within that dynamic pool, when a worksation that is a resource of a dynamic pool goes down OPS often check what batch is scheduled against that workstation, oft...
6 months ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

Farmacias Guadalajara is requesting to extend the observability of additional metrics for Informix DB that will complement the current sensor funcionality..

Farmacias Guadalajara has hundreds of branches distributed across Mexican territory. All the transactions generated on each branch are processed by Informix central databases, so it is critical to monitor the full health of Informix technology. We...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Sensor 2 Future consideration

Documentation on how to setup SevOne NMS to monitor kubernetes via eBPF

There are quite a few mentions in blog posts and videos about combining SevOne NMS with Network Observability (NetObserv Operator) in order to monitor kubernetes via eBPF Introducing IBM SevOne 7 - Now available https://community.ibm.com/community...
about 1 year ago in SevOne / Configuration and Administration 0 Future consideration

Snooze function improvements

1. Comment (Justification) field enhancementsRequest: Improve the comment/justification flow when snoozing resources by adding structured and mandatory input options.Requirements:   Pre-set (customizable) list of justifications available in a drop...
8 months ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 3 Future consideration

Ability to use wildcards/regex to ignore/blacklist processes from monitoring

Hi, During the rollout phase we need to exclude a serious amount of batch jobs and other processes, most of the java based, from monitoring/tracing. The documented process: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability?topic=cha-configuring-ho...
4 months ago in Instana / Agent 1 Planned for future release

Cloudability Rightsizing support for Dynatrace (APM Integration)

Similar to the existing Datadog or New Relic integration, leverage monitoring agent data from Dynatrace to better inform resource recommendations in Cloudability

Disable Advanced Feature Check

Enable to a toggle to stop accounts from showing errors on their Advanced Features status on Vendor Credentials. In the event that an account can't/won't be enabled, this would allow both the 'Account Status' banner and the Credentials Page to sho...
3 months ago in Cloudability / Vendor Credentials and Integrations 1 Future consideration

There should be a v3 API endpoint to run a ping command from any peer to a device

The ability to specify a specific peer to ping an arbitrary device by id, name or management address would be helpful for process automation, particularly for very large scale SevOne clusters. It's not clear what part of the API schema it should b...
9 months ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 0 Future consideration