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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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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

Check subsystem availability in WAPL procedure EQQYXJPX

It could be useful to have the possibility to check the controller subsystem availability in WAPL procedure EQQXYJPX. Actually, if the subsystem is not active, the WAPL procedure ends immediately after INIT command and the job step terminates with...
almost 3 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

Currently Sevone lacking many of the fault monitoring features as follows.

Currently Sevone lacking many of the fault monitoring features as follows. > policy should allow multiple plugin metrics for better configuration: If a device is down , ideally it should not trigger 2 alarms , Now sevone policy it will trigger ...
over 1 year ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 0 Future consideration

PowerVM - LPAR HA support

LPAR HA setup, when one LPAR from group scales so does also the other for consistency
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / On-Premises (Hypervisor & Storage & Network) 1 Future consideration

Connect IWS CLI (conman/composer) DIRECTLY to Win/AD using LDAP

Instead of using the useropts_twsxxxx file to authenticate IWS users credentials , can we directly go to our Win/AD system via LDAP to authenticate this way. eg removed the useropts. file
almost 3 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

Coupa connector missing in Datalink.

Coupa is not supported in Datalink , but it is present in Datalink Classic. It will be the advantage if it is integration is available in   Datalink same as like Datalink(Classic)
over 1 year ago in Apptio / Data Connectivity (Datalink) 0 Future consideration

Increase Maximum Byte Constraint on "Node" (Currently 51 bytes)

Node name currently has a maximum byte size of 51 chars. We have nodes with FQDN's source AWS that require 75 chars. We request that node name be increased to some value at or exceeding 128 bytes to facilitate long node values in the future. Appli...
over 4 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Future consideration

ProcessID missing in joblogs for windows processes

CASE ID - TS003942595During investigations to identify long running issues of a job, we found that Windows ProcessID is not supplied back to the Job Log, Yet for Linux/Unix processes the ID is provided. This makes tracing the process thats causing...
over 4 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration