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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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Service Entity rules with an Application Perspective scope should only fire if calls in the AP are impacted

TL DR - the customer expectation when setting up a Service alert with an Application Perspective scope is that it uses the same KPIs that they see when viewing the service within the AP.
almost 5 years ago in Instana / Alert 0 Functionality already exists

Alerts for endpoints do not contain details of the service they are part of

Service details should be included in Endpoint events when sent via Alert Channels. Without this information they can't route events to the correct team and want to use us as a key part of their alerting strategy.
almost 5 years ago in Instana / Alert 0 Functionality already exists

AI Ops - automated Cost/Quota based selection of Clusters to provision Apps.

Add policies and cost analysis to provision based on Cost or quota policies. leverage model in CloudForms. and Extend to Containers.
almost 5 years ago in Cloud Pak for Multicloud Management Ideas 1 Functionality already exists

Usage and Metering

As an MCM service provider, I’d like to be able to retrieve usage and metering data through our MCM hub via a multi-tenant aware API at relative high frequency (on demand) for billing purposes.
about 5 years ago in Cloud Pak for Multicloud Management Ideas 0 Functionality already exists

Need to create alert based on trace / http metric value

create a custom alert (and thus event in the first instance) in our Production Instana instance.EVENT: The application is "Card Services" the metric is "Call latency" (P99) and the filter I'm trying to apply is on call.http.path that equals a spec...
about 5 years ago in Instana / Alert 0 Functionality already exists

Provide annotation and export of maps to Visio, PDF, PNG and print.

Provide annotation and export of maps to Visio, PDF, PNG and print.
over 5 years ago in Tivoli Network Manager 1 Functionality already exists

Capability to create custom roles in addition to the available standard roles

ICP is missing custom role creation option as per APIC 2018.4.1.0. It will give admins the flexibility to create the purposely build custom roles to cater the need of individual teams. Example: New role with the standard viewer plus access to the...
almost 6 years ago in Cloud Pak for Multicloud Management Ideas 1 Functionality already exists

NOI Network Health Dashboard does not support Load Balancer rul properly

This is happening on NOI 1.4.1.When launching Network Health Dashboard, the Percentage Availability Widget is not able to display data and it is showing Data retrieval error in our Environment. Further checking with IBM Support and found that it i...
almost 6 years ago in Tivoli Network Manager 2 Functionality already exists

GUI for creating key-value pairs for custom information

System: IBM Tivoli Network Manager Actor: User needs to create key-value pairs in custom data tags. Description: Having a GUI to create these tags, upload the contents, and manage the data and data values would greatly increase the effectiveness o...
about 7 years ago in Tivoli Network Manager 2 Functionality already exists

HA capabilities for Predictive Insights

We are expecting to implement High availability capabilities for Predictive Insights.
over 7 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 2 Functionality already exists