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Allow polling of Strings via SNMP

Today Palo Alto Firewalls running in HA mode can be monitored via OID 1.3.6.1.4.1.25461.2.1.2.1.11 to see their current state of HA. The values returned are strings and can be "disabled", "active", or "passive" Other vendors like F5 have used inte...
over 2 years ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 0 Future consideration

SOL005 observer request

A dynamic virtualized network topology in telco needs sol005 interface.
over 2 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

Ability to Publish Approval Status to Cost Transparency

When publishing data from IT Planning to Cost Transparency, we'd like to be able to see the cost center approval status. We use automated data mgmt a on a daily basis, but we only want to publish the approved cost centers. Sending the status colum...
9 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 1 Future consideration

Change log for Agent/Sensor Updates

It's currently hard to learn which changes an agent update did bring. Since there is no dedicated changelog, the only way to learn about version updates is to look at the agent log and compare sensor/agent versions before and after the "Performing...
about 3 years ago in Instana / Agent 0 Future consideration

Indicate the reason for alert (e.g. instana-builtin, instana-custom-rule, etc.)

When an alert is fired, we never know its source. Would be great to have in the Alert itself an information of where it's coming from (smart alert, builtin, custom event, etc.)
about 3 years ago in Instana / Alert 0 Future consideration

To add custom time range in a instana chart filter/query

We don't have an option to add custom time range in a chart query - like need to display a chart for last 1 day but without changing time filter of the overall dashboard
over 2 years ago in Instana / Infrastructure / User Interface 1 Future consideration

IBM Netcool Omnibus Kafka Message Bus Probe to support protobuf message format parsing.

We are currently looking for an option to have an enhancement for Kafka message bus Probe, to be able to parse protobuf message format. We were implementing a new integration with the Nokia FSS system’s Kafka environment, using the Kafka message b...
over 1 year ago in AIOps Integrations 0 Future consideration

Dashboards with large timespans reduce the peaks and are less use-full

The "problem" I have is if you take a look as an example to the timings of the garbage-collection graph.I have here an app who does every 5 seconds a 300ms gc, if you are in the 10 minutes frame this is visible. I can go back 24 hours in this gran...
about 3 years ago in Instana / User Interface 0 Future consideration

Additional options for column colouring in Widgets

Currently in Data Insight when setting up Performance metrics, you can use custom color ranges to highlight different rows based on the values in 1 column, however when using multiple indicators there are times when multiple columns may be importa...
over 2 years ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) 2 Future consideration

nco_p_message_bus : Support to return custom message/ event tracking reference addition to HttpCode

nco_p_message_bus: Support for adding event tracking references or custom message returns addition with HTTP Status Code IBM should keep adding functionality to Message Bus as it becomes more and more popular as a webhook. nco_p_message_bus does n...
about 3 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration