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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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Simplify ACL/SDOM management with IWS >9.5

Hello, Currently we use SDOM structure to limit our applicative manager to their application and to force norm usage. For exemple - For Job name: 3 characters for application code (CCX) 1 character for job type (one of these 3 letters XTM) 1 chara...
over 1 year ago in Workload Automation 9 Future consideration

Tellabs Probe to fetch alarms from EMS through Authentication

Tellabs Probe doesnt support Authentication (Username/Password) properties. Customer EMS allows to fetch alarms only based on credentials.
over 1 year ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

Alert if a file is created

Get an alert if a file is created in a mount/directory/drive for example if a .dmp file is created in windows etc.
over 1 year ago in Instana / Alert / Sensor 0 Future consideration

Data source encryption with AES

The current AES Encryption implementation in OMNIbus and WebGUI only allows passwords up to 30 characters long whether encrypted or un-encrypted. If you encrypt a password longer than 16 chars using ncw_aes_crypt script, the encrypted string becom...
7 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

Customize Start up page by users preference

Currently the start up page is hard set for ALL users. The users are now requesting to be able to save their own start up page in the start up view when they login, that they would like to see.
7 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review

Webservice Job: Pooling the execution status in the same webservice jobs

Hi team, We are using webservice jobs run various seeded jobs using the webservice plugins. In second step we are defining an executable job to fetch the report id/request id from the XM response. In last step we are doing the conditional checks i...
7 months ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

Add alerting condition / Request Impact "Total Calls in Alert Scope" to smart alerts

Using smart alerts in Instana, we are currently able to define the absolute number of requests Impacted within the alerting condition (time threshold). See attachment 01 It is however in most cases much more relevant to set up a threshold for a to...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Alert 1 Not under consideration

Sorting option for CNEA-policies (e.g. suggested) in NOI 1.6.5

Currently it is not possible to sort by the different columns in the policies (Created by analytics/Suggested/Archived). Especially with a large number of policies, this is absolutely necessary.Our Environment: NOI Version 1.6.5
about 2 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Planned for future release

Disable normal user login / automatically purge users from User DB

Customer wants to enable SSO. When they do this, they want to make sure that existing Instana users can no longer login with they email/password, and that new users can no longer create regular logins (only login via SSO).Once the user is deleted ...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Access Control 3 Functionality already exists

Ability to create SmartAlert based of the executed Analyse query

When in unbounded analytics finding an "interesting" situation it would be practical to directly create a SmartAlert based on this to be alerted in case such situation arises again,
about 2 years ago in Instana / Alert 1 Not under consideration