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SNMP Probe able to handle v3 traps with 100+ end points

When using the SNMP Probe to receive v3 traps, these need to be added to the mttrapd.conf file. When the Probe starts, it reads in this file and creates a hash table of the entries. For 5k entries, this process can take 10 to 20 minutes just to lo...
over 3 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 2 Future consideration

Improving Resiliency #2: temporarily "pausing" the Agents if SAP ABAP is not stable

Agents needs to have the ability to temporarily "pause" its operations if the SAP Database is "in-accessible" or non-writable, or if SAP ASCS failover is currently in progress.
about 1 year ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

Custom dashboards: Copy a dataset or filter from one widget to another

Background and context When creating a dashboard it's often useful to re-use datasets or filters between different widgets. If it's the same widget, the duplicate widget functionality can be used, but there is no way to re-use a dataset or filter ...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Infrastructure / Metric Store 2 Future consideration

Mobile Monitoring: Filter out network errors by default so mean latency is correct

Background and context The mean latency information in mobile monitoring is currently very skewed by that some calls show extremely high latencies. This is due to that Instana measures some corner cases that is not really interesting from performa...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Real User Monitoring 1 Future consideration

Grouping Live pipe interfaces ( ie interfaces which are interconnected with devices which are in Sevone)

Live pipes are basically trunk interfaces which interconnected with downstream and upstream devices . Sevone have this details as it detecting topology but currently we are unable to use this detail effectively to create a group of trunk interface...
about 1 year ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 18 Future consideration

Able to add Runcycle to job

We have requirement where some job instead job stream should run only on Workdays and currently we split them into 2 job streams1) To run on every day at certain time2) To run on workdays at certain time If we get option to setup runcycle at job l...
almost 4 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Future consideration

Event Rule file detection at start up

File monitoring in Event Rules currently does not detect pre-existing files at startup. I would like to option to have file be detected at monman startup.The PMR field does not accept the new Sales Force case number it is (TS001148396)
over 6 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Future consideration

Bank of America looking for the ability for SevOne to be able to alert on and collect string OIDs

The customer is looking to alert on several different OIDs which produce data of type string. Their use case is as they move from their old monitoring platform some vendors only offer specific OIDs in string form. (For example HA state with fortin...
over 1 year ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 0 Future consideration

Additional Topic Metrics for Kafka

Customer monitors Kafka performance based off lag with the topics. Right now we have bytes metrics along with messages in but they need visibility for the Messages Out metric too. Metrics needed: Messages Out Lag (difference in Messages in and out)
over 1 year ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Future consideration

Process-Level Configuration for Prometheus Scraper in Instana Agent (Kubernetes/OpenShift)

Summary: This idea outlines the essential need for a generic per-process configuration for scraping Prometheus data in Instana. The current missing of this feature limits Prometheus monitoring on Kubernetes and OpenShift; workarounds are causing u...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Agent / Sensor 0 Future consideration