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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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Optimize download when installing in an offline environment

When following the documented installation procedure for CP4AIOps Infrastructure Automation offline deployment, an extremely large download file is produced. This download contains multiple versions of operators and components and requires conside...
7 months ago in Infrastructure Automation 0 Under review

DI Widget Concept - Quick Inventory Widgets - Chained Inventory Metrics

In Data Insight, the Metadata widget in its core function acts as a representation of inventory and asset data separate from the typical inter-based metrics that are gathered today. It would be beneficial to have an Inventory widget where you coul...
7 months ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) 0 Future consideration

Stop Azure Application Gateway via a schedule/policy to reduce costs when back-end pools are off line or shutdown.

Azure Application Gateways cannot be stopped/started via the Azure Web Portal, but they can be stopped or started using Azure CLI or Powershell. There is also a POST command API method to start/stop an Application Gateway that can be found in the ...
about 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM 0 Future consideration

ScopeBasedGrouping GUI should expose the Policy Name to the parent event of the group

The GUI available in DASH/WebGUI to configure a policy for Scope Based Groups should expose the policy name to the parent event. Otherwise it is not possible to associate any further logic to the group or its parent event.It's probably relatively ...
almost 4 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 1 Planned for future release

SELinux support for Netcool Omnibus on RHEL8

The default configuration of SELinux on RHEL8 is set to 'enforced'. During a Netcool Omnibus 8.1 installation on RHEL8, we noticed that the installation as such was fine, the ObjectServer and probes also were running. BUT, the nco start-up scripts...
over 3 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 1 Future consideration

Need to be able to create a custom Event via the Agent API and specify a Host other than the Host of the Agent

Need to be able to create a custom Event via the Agent API and specify a Host other than the Host of the Agent. A customer is doing remote detection of problems. They want to be able to open an Event and have the Event indicate that it is affectin...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Alert 2 Not under 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...
over 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
over 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 ...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Access Control 3 Functionality already exists

DWC - Filters Improvements

We have more than one team that manages the production environment and in most of the time each team takes care of a group of applications running under IWS. Using standards for Job, JobStream and Resource names we managed to create filters that c...
over 5 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Future consideration