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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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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

Improving Kubernetes Alerting

Status quo Built-in event ("Kubernetes Pod condition status") for when a Kubernetes pod reports 'Not Ready' state for more than one minute. Desired Ability to get alerted when pods created within last 30 minutes reports 'Not Ready' state for more ...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Alert / Kubernetes 1 Functionality already exists

Map Groups with SAML (Okta)

We have SSO setup for the Instana Backend using SAML with Okta. We would like to be able to map groups provided by the Idp to Instana roles/groups. The ability to map our internal LDAP groups to Instana groups would give us the ability to apply ac...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Access Control / Security and Compliance 2 Functionality already exists

Spring Batch Tracing

We are trying to gather traces from Spring Batch applications running as steps in an Argo workflow. The applications may start processing before the Instana agent has discovered and instrumented the JVM. We need a method to effectively trace Sprin...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Java / Tracing 2 Functionality already exists

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

Integration of MCM with BMC Remedy

Lots of our customer user BMC Remedy as ITSM tool, need direct integration of MCM with BMC Remedy to push Incident data. Currently we are working for a Large Telecom client which runs a BMC heavy shop from ITSM perspective. We are looking for a wo...
almost 4 years ago in Cloud Pak for Multicloud Management Ideas 1 Planned for future release

Netcool WebGUI - Scope Based Event Grouping Page/Portal

On Netcool/OMNIbus WebGUI - Scope based event grouping portal, one cannot re-arrange SBEG policy based on Name, Last modified or Enabled/Disbaled etc. This makes it difficult to manage the SBEG policies created.
almost 4 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 1 Not under consideration

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