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Disable/Delete Flow Interface not seen for X Months

Flow interfaces never get disabled or deleted once they are allowed for collection. Over time, interfaces move or are disabled thereby leaving these flow interfaces to consume licenses when nothing is being collected. There's no way to tell if a f...
about 2 months ago in SevOne / Dedicated NetFlow Collector (DNC) 5 Future consideration

"discover-netflow" should display the current source of flow in mapped instead of the last link

Given the way Netflow is design, its possible to fail over from a lab environment was able to continue collecting netflow. However, there is a little caveat when it comes to the display name and management: Currently the NMS does not actively trac...
about 2 months ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 0 Future consideration

How can we make it easier for MSPs like BT to roll out updates at scale for 7.2 and 8.x environments?

Large MSPs like BT manage environments with 30+ clusters. Even with a ~30-minute upgrade time per cluster, the cumulative effort, scheduling, and risk of downtime make frequent updates challenging. Simplifying the rollout process (e.g., automation...
3 months ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 2 Future consideration

Self-Monitoring Instana with Instana - Document Instana custom metrics

(Self-Hosted) Instana instances can be fully monitored using Instana. If you know which metrics (custom metrics in Instana) to look out for when workload or resources change. Instana should provide up-to-date documentation of internal custom metri...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Self Hosted 2 Future consideration

Sharing Private Layouts in IT Planning

We have a layout in the labor tab that is used periodically throughout the year when exporting out of IT Planning.  In order to prevent our user base from editing it, I have marked the layout as private.  However, this limits other admin...
over 2 years ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Future consideration

Support Webex Teams for AIOPS ChatOps

ChatOps would introduce a new way to collaborate that is one of the most important modernizations expected for this customer Operation
over 2 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

Ability to copy an entire tab including all visuals on that tab to another Apptio BI report

Problem:Right now you can duplicate an individual visual or an entire report. If you need to move a tab from one report to another, you need to create a new tab in the destination report and then copy the individual visual widgets from the source ...
5 months ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 0 Future consideration

Report owner/editor can re-order report tabs in the ApptioBI UI

Problem: Right now once tabs have been created in ApptioBI there is no way to re-order then in the UI. They are stuck in the order in which they were initially created. This is basic functionality needed for ongoing report development and maintena...
5 months ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 0 Future consideration

Metrics for Websites not stored for more than 7 days (historic data / representative sample)

Problem:------This is the case on the default Website Dashboard as well as for the Custom Instana Dashboards.When checking this in detail, we recognized no separate metrics and that the data is completely based on website (trace) data.Is this a bu...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities / Real User Monitoring 1 Future consideration

Alert clearing condition based on no change to indicator value

For generating an alert, there are trigger/clear conditions based on "Changed", "Changed To" and "Changed From" But there is no way to clear an alerts if it does not change for X amount of time. It would be helpful if there is an option to impleme...
about 2 months ago in SevOne / Configuration and Administration 0 Future consideration