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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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Could not find any Instana API to enable or disable all built-in/Custom events at once

Hi we are trying to disable all buit-in events at once and then enable few which we need for our infrastructure. Instead of walking through all existing events we found this would be more helpful to have an API to disbale/enable all events at once.
over 1 year ago in Instana / Alert 1 Not under consideration

Add integrated links/info for far-end interface in out-of-the-box report

SevOne already understands the 2 device/interface mappings for a given link. WHen looking at a given interface, a link towards far-end interface should be provided in out-of-the-box report (ex: Network Device Summary, Interface Object Summary, etc.)
9 months ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) 0 Planned for future release

Show interface bundle (link aggregation) mappings directly in out-of-the-box reports

Allows troubleshooting of bundle (link aggregation) related issues. Show interface bundle mappings directly in out-of-the-box reports, for example "Network Device Summary" and "Network Performance Report".
9 months ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) 0 Future consideration

Add Filter Check Boxes to SDN Fault Widget

The customer stated on a few occasions that "in its current state it is not usable," referring to the SDN Fault Messages widget in Data Insight. The corresponding page in the Cisco APIC GUI has check boxes to hide acknowledged faults and hide dele...
9 months ago in SevOne / Software Defined Networking (SDN) 0 Future consideration

Feature Request - Internet Explorer 7 Compatibility for Instana

We are requesting the implementation of a new feature in Instana to ensure compatibility with Internet Explorer 7. Our current configuration involves code injection at the F5 level, transitioning from the previous IIS level injection Observations:...
9 months ago in Instana / Tracing 1 Not under consideration

Tracing for COBOL/C/C++

I want to add custom instrumentation to a COBOL/C/C++ process to hook into the call and instrumentations pipeline in Instana enabling end-to-end traceability from our front-end through all the tiers and including the SQL queries in SQL server. In ...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Agent / Tracing 1 Not under consideration

Find a way to store historical vm data after cross-vcenter vmotion

Application and capacity teams would like to have important historical information, which get lost on cross vcenter vmotions. This is a hurdle to really adopting superclustering throughout our environment.
about 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / On-Premises (Hypervisor & Storage & Network) 0 Planned for future release

Support Yocto Linux for IEAM edge device

Add support Yocto Linux 2.5.1 and 2.5.1+ on Intel Atom processor for IEAM edge device prerequisite OS. IEAM edge device prerequisite OS is described below. https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSFKVV_4.1/devices/installing/adding_devices.ht...
over 4 years ago in Edge Application Manager 4 Not under consideration

ScopeID and Policy information on Alerts detail

Customer wants to have more datail about how alerts are grouped and what policy was used for that. This help to improve policies and it's configurations, and a better understanding when they are troubleshooting incidents.
9 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 1 Planned for future release

Instana fix pack upgrade directly from one version to any version should be possible

Currently we are using 1.239 version which is 6 months old than the latest version 1.263. Currently Instana doesn't support direct upgrade from one version to any version. We have to upgrade atleast 6 times to reach to the latest version 1.263. In...
9 months ago in Instana / Self Hosted 0 Not under consideration