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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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Support multiple SMTP hosts

When Customer has s Separate SMTP hosts to send email to External and Internal email id, it is currently not possible to configure multiple SMTP IPs on the NMS. So he has to choose either of these(external or internal SMTP Host). This can be achie...
over 1 year ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 0 Not under consideration

The WMI Proxy ID should be visable in the Cluster Manager Settings under the WMI Proxies tab

In order to add a WMI managed device via API you are required to enter the WMI Proxy ID, the ID is not made available anywhere in the product UI or CLI other than make a MySQL query, which is expressly stated as not a recomended process for custom...
about 1 year ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 0 Planned for future release

ITM 6.3.0.7 all service packs only allow keyfile.kdb for certificate usage. For automation reasons it would be very helpful to offer Microsoft Crypto Api and/or Windows keystore usage instead ITM keyfile.kdb.

Microsoft Crypto Api / Windows keystore are standards which would help to automate cerificate maintenance.
over 2 years ago in ITM/IBM APM 1 Not under consideration

AWS EMR Cluster Support and handling

Turbo does not inherently recognize this particular type of device (EMR Cluster) as a “special handling” instance; in effect it sees a list of instances that can be optimized. Without scaling these devices concurrently/consistently, the cluster wi...
about 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Target Support 1 Future consideration

ASM ITNM Observer should support Node to Node links

Currently ASM ITNM Observer shall bring in port to port level or Interface to Interface level link connectivity from ITNM Topology to ASM Topology but do miss the Node to Node or Chassis to Chassis level inferred connections. So ASM ITNM Observer ...
about 1 year ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

Link Description details on link focus in Map

In SevOne Maps, when focus on link customers are interested to view more details w.r.t Link like Link Description, Link Name, Link Speed etc along with InOctet and OutOuctets that are available in SevOne.
about 1 year ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) 0 Planned for future release

Allow "patch" method to HTTP actions

When I try to create an HTTP action in Instana Automation feature, I can see the most common HTTP actions such as GET, POST, PUT and DELETE, but some APIs require the PATCH method, which represents a partial update https://developer.mozilla.org/en...
6 months ago in Instana / Automation 0 Future consideration

Ability Change the Timezone for the Event Viewer

Hello Team, We have a Global Networking Team that are looking at the events in the Eventviewer but they are being displayed in their local time. We have check the Node timezones and all are being set to UTC by default and We are assuming it is tak...
over 1 year ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

Support for platforms such as Docker and Azure to deploy a PoP for synthetic monitoring

We are users of the Instana APM solution and have been trying out the Synthetic Monitoring feature to help ensure the performance and availability of our applications. However, we have found that the current implementation of this feature only sup...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Synthetic 2 Not under consideration

negate condition in custom event definition or negate matching operator

In custom event definition it will be good to have negate condition (besides AND) or to have negate Matching Operator for certain metrics. ITM has a NE operator for this purpose.
over 1 year ago in Instana / Alert 1 Functionality already exists