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PINNED Configure maintenance flyouts
User interface settings include the option “Show maintenance notes”. How can I as onprem-backend administrator configure and switch on such flyouts to inform my users about upcoming maintenance?

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Add alert archive widget to DI

It would be very useful to show alerts that have cleared in the past X amount of time. Works similar to the alert archive feature in NMS. Also needs to work with variables.
about 1 year ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) 0 Future consideration

Data Insight Report Widgets should allow the customer to save a report without choosing a resource.

At the moment when the customer copies a template to create a new report DI requires the customer to choose an object or group for the widgets within the report. This requirement causes issues with reports that have large object counts, and the cu...
about 1 year ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) 0 Future consideration

Specific Dates Identified to Amortize Bonus Payments

Customer needs the ability to amortize bonus payments over specific start and end dates.    Some employees get full bonus in first year regardless of start date, others do not.  So the ability to prorate the bonus over a period of t...
about 2 years ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Future consideration

IWS subtasks statistics

We have seen several errors in stats of IWS, the length of counters is incorrect and for that the most significant digit is lost (when next number to 99999 is 0).We need at least 7 digits in partial counters an 8 digits in total ones, according wi...
over 6 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Future consideration

For instana to support monitoring of Solace

We are positioning Instana for their MQ, ACE, and Datapower, and in progress to work with them on POC, they requested Instana support for Solace and Axway.
about 2 years ago in Instana / Sensor 2 Future consideration

renaming DB's

We love the new infrastructure view in instana and have been using the DB monitoring in particular. We've added 30+ db's and the information seems to be fine. Please see attached screenshots. The problem is that all of the db's in the list view cu...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Infrastructure / Sensor 0 Future consideration

Enforce Auditing justification and reporting in all interfaces, not just DWC

In 9.4 the ability to enforce the addition of a justification and a change/incident record number (from ServiceNow for instance) to all plan and database changes was added when these actions originate from the DWC. No equivalent ability to enforce...
over 7 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Future consideration

On linux JOB the JobManager should expand environment variable (if used) in stdout and stderr definition

On a JOB kind "executable" if we use environnement variable in stdout and stderr definition : they are not expanded as they should. May bhis include this another enhancemnt : possibility to add a ".profile" in configuration list of the JOB (becaus...
about 1 year ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

alerting on the dreaded "broadcast storm" scenario

as I am aware SevOne does not have a preferred way to alert on the dreaded "broadcast storm" scenario. This is how I have it configured within my deployment: Currently I monitor on broadcast storms in the following manner: -broadcast storm occurs ...
about 1 year ago in SevOne / Configuration and Administration 0 Future consideration

SevOne NPM - Data Insight Reporting Handcuffed by Data Source

Cigna divides their SevOne monitoring by business unit so when creating an over all health report they are required to also to use three different widgets for each data source making it very difficult to understand the over all health of their inf...
about 1 year ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) 0 Future consideration