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IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps

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User-friendly way of managing SNMP MIBs and traps for alerting/eventing

Currently, in order to manage SNMP MIBs and traps for alerting, you must create a rules file that will map the OIDs and Varbinds of the trap, as defined in the vendor's MIB, to the event schema. We do offer some tooling that will take a vendor MIB...
over 2 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 1 Future consideration

Extend Incident Restriction Filter capability to allow custom Alert Fields to be used

Access Control (RBAC) is generally aligned to categories such as affected customer/environment, security restrictions etc. Source data allowing classification is present in the Alerts (and used successfully to enable Restriction Filters in the Ale...
3 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 1

More granular authorisation to execute impact policies via the REST API

As of Impact 7.1 Fix Pack 23, Impact policies can be triggered using the REST API. This is great and we have some use case where our Netcool users could benefit from this feature. Unfortunately, a user must have the impactAdminUser role to access ...
10 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review

Improvement of status of file-observer

When the file-observer has the state "finished", there are still some jobs in the background, i.e. indexing in Elasticsearch. The state in the overview of topology-management is irritating, as the user might still see some undefined resources in ...
over 3 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Planned for future release

make ldap-configuration more customizable

For a NOI installation running on OCP with LDAP mode proxy, it is an absolute requirement that the users icpadmin and impactadmin must exist in the connected LDAP. The names of these users are not freely selectable, but must be exactly the same. T...
almost 4 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 8 Planned for future release

Authentication with OMNIbus jconnect only supports passwords up to 30 characters

Customer is using the ObjectServer for authentication of users logging into WebGUI/DASH. The password for the users is coming over an LDAP-integration of the ObjectServer. For users that do not have OMNIbus client libraries and due to password siz...
about 3 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 1 Future consideration

Clone OCP and NOI configurations from an existing system to a newly created system

The customer has one OCP that runs NOI test and NOI prod as a full cloud installation. The problem with this setup is that sometimes operations are used on one NOI, that also affect the other NOI instance on the same OCP. To avoid such dependencie...
over 2 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

ASM Topology Dashboard Favorites Inner Status Coloring

When I create a topology dashboard template and set it as favorite, a nice bubble icon with status colors appear for topology drill down. The pie chart around the icon is actually showing status severity of all topology related objects. Which basi...
over 4 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 1 Planned for future release

Auto-Creation of Suppression Policies from Seasonality Policies

Background In our AIOps implementation, Alert Seasonality detection has been successfully enabled. The AI model is identifying recurring alert patterns and has generated over 2,900 seasonality policies. These policies are used as a basis for creat...
3 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review

Support Asynchronous API calls in Runbook

Runbook Automation uses Synchronous calls when doing http/s calls. when you have a API that is Asynchronous, it will give a "statusID" or reference number when doing a API call,this StatusID will then have to be used to query the state of that cal...
3 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review