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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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Expand All the Parent Child Grouping Alarms in WebGUI Event Viewer GUI

Our NOC team is looking for an option to expand all the parent child grouped alarms in single click. As of now, they are expanding single set of parent child group as per their need. If we have one option to use expand/collapse the grouping alarms...
4 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review

Allow temporary group creation within Plan function of the tool

Many times for running plans, I have to create a VM group here and a host group there. They all end up sitting in the environment indefinitely until I explicitly look for them for cleaning (being able to look for them by "Last Used" or "Last Updat...
11 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Planning 1 Future consideration

Improve the agent deployment process : have a dev/prod or beta/stable type of release

I/we would like to have a discussion about how agents are released into the "Dynamic Agent." What we are talking about is how the .jar files are pulled from maven into the dynamic agent. Today, you have a few options in how your agents work. If...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Agent 0 Future consideration

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...
11 months ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 1 Future consideration

Add "Carryover data" option for defining custom Data Freshness Rule

As an Admin of TBM Studio, I'd like to define which of my custom Data Freshness Rules will allow for data to carry forward into future periods by adding a [Carryover data] toggle option on the Define New Data Freshness Rule dialog. This will allow...
over 1 year ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Data/Model Studio 0 Future consideration

Reset Baseline on entire device history

Currently you are limited to resetting the baseline for the past week to correct abnormalities that may have had happen in the past week. There are times when new services are turned up or processes are changed so a device will deviate from its st...
4 months ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 0 Future consideration

AIOps should support display of pre-existing grouping

In the 25 years or so that Netcool has been around, there have been developed several means by which events can be correlated and grouped, not only by us, but by customers alike. It is obvious that rather than try and replace with AI/ML we should ...
7 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

Alert Audit Log, basically a trail of when an alert (not events) was sent out, who to, which channel, what payload, etc…

We would like to ask for a feature to allow for Alerts to be protocolled and saved (kind of an Alert Audit Log). Basically, a trail of when an alert (not events) was sent out, who to, what payload, etc…Website and Applications use Smart Alerts. I ...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Alert 0 Future consideration

Unique names for views

Hi Team, when creating views on the navigation pane, can a customer prevent duplicate naming, especially for common use views (like Team Backlog, for example). Are there any mashups or solutions that would help with that?
11 months ago in Targetprocess / Navigation/Menus 0 Under review

Instana Mule ESB V4.x Support

It is critical for the Mule ESB sensor to support more current versions of the product. Specifically v 4.3.0, 4.4.0 and 4.5.0. The only current support for the sensor is version 3.X, Mule 3 is in "extended support" and Mule 4.1.x and 4.2.x are end...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Sensor 3 Future consideration