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Allowing SNMP Trap Alerts to be related to the actual device

In many cases SNMP Trap based are sent by a single SNMP Trap Forwarder. The Genesys Call Center software, NICE Recording Software, and vmWare vCenter are classic examples of this. From a recurring failure point of view, it gives the impression tha...
over 1 year ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 1 Future consideration

Enhance AIOps-AWS Observer access to Role based tied when underlying AIOps platform is AWS.

having close to 900 accounts to discover and manage, we would require a single IAM access key and this would be needed if we were to move to AWS.
about 1 year ago in AIOps Integrations 0 Future consideration

Enhance AIOps-AWS Observer to use single IAM user to gather data from multiple EC2 instances tied to a single Application

we have hundreds of accounts, and require key rotation. having to manage so many tokens is impossible.
about 1 year ago in AIOps Integrations 0 Future consideration

Support monitoring "IBM Cloud Databases for MySQL"

[Background] The customer is developing the system on IBM Cloud, and uses a lot of "IBM Cloud Databases for MySQL" instances.The customer wants to monitor all IBM Cloud services on Instana, but Instana doesn't support monitoring "IBM Cloud Databas...
about 1 year ago in Instana / IBM Cloud 1 Future consideration

Disable what-if analysis on DWC for Z Engine

There is no option to disable what-if analysis on DWC for Z Workload Scheduler. For the Distributed masters there is a global option to disable what-if, but a similar option is not available in Z workload scheduler. Please provide with an option i...
about 2 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

AI Manager to send the story via email.

AI Manager can only send notifications using slack or Microsoft Teams. Some customers does not have ChatOps. Why not to allow AI manager to send them email notification so they can utilize the feature.
almost 3 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 2 Future consideration

Improve ApptioBI Alerting(Insights) to not require a manual reset

Provide the ability to automatically reset a trigger when trigger, without having to delete are re-create trigger. This will save time. Also provide the ability to generate multiple triggers/alerts for each Dashboard.
7 months ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 1 Future consideration

I want to prevent the file /tmp/.com_ibm_tools_attach/* that TEPS starting command creates.

When /opt/IBM/ITM/lx8266/iw/java/jre/bin/java is executed (when TEPS starts up), some files '/tmp/.com_ibm_tools_attach/*' will be generated. I would like to prevent these files from being generated. The related IBM support inquiry is this one: ht...
7 months ago in ITM/IBM APM 2 Future consideration

Enrich transactions in Instana with Network Flow metadata from NPM

Customers are looking for Instana to be their Single pane of glass for observability. A common question is how about the network, what if the problem is there? Our partner Rebendo and customer TINE has a suggestion that customers who use an NPM li...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 0 Future consideration

Unify resource ID display Azure

In the right sizing recommendations I the ResourceID some sometimes not displayed for Azure resources. Which makes it a bit cumbersome to find these resources if for instance you want to dig up details in for instance Apptio BI. In addition what i...
7 months ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 0 Future consideration