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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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OS uptime

I would like to have a metric/event for this parameter. The system uptime value can indicate whether the operating system has restarted or not. The easiest way to do this is to check the uptime of the system. If the uptime of the system is less, t...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Future consideration

Being able to process v3 SNMP traps by auto discovering EngineID

Currently the SNMP (mttrapd) Probe only supports configuring the Engine ID's first, before being able to receive the SNMPv3 Traps. Probe should work in following fashion , this will take out of manual work to monitor traps from 100s thousands devi...
over 2 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

Add incident creation policies based on a specified number of alerts

Administrators should have the ability to create incident policies that specify conditions on number of alerts associated to an incident. For example, if incident policies are triggered only off of alert severity, a large number of incidents could...
10 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 1 Future consideration

Add noise reduction statistics and any other defined KPIs for every individual incident and event grouping

In the AIOps Insights dashboard, several KPIs (including noise reduction %) are automatically calculated across all system data over a specified period of time. In order to communicate unique value from CP4AIOps on a smaller scale, these numbers s...
10 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 1 Planned for future release

Allow multiple columns can be sorted at a time

Currently TEPS only allow a single column can be sorted at a time. It does not allow sub-sort and needs to get multiple columns to make more dynamic display.
10 months ago in ITM/IBM APM 0 Future consideration

Ability to open multiple browser sessions to view different filtered console views

NOC has different filtered views in the event browser and needs the ability to be able to open several browser windows. Currently, Watson keeps logging users out when trying to open multiple browser sessions.
10 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 1 Functionality already exists

Need ability to monitor files

Dear colleagues, our customer monitors existence of files with Tivoli Monitoring. They seek for transition to Instana, so they're interested in implementation of analogs to what they use in ITM. Below is the example of such ITM situation: *IF *SCA...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Sensor 0

Add an option to solve from the "Stuck Online" state, when you don't WANT to STOP the resource

In a DB2 HADR cluster been managed by TSA (SAMP) policy, somehow the hadr database resource was reporting "Stuck Online" state. Everyghing was fine from DB2 and HADR perspective, Instace was UP, HADR was running normally, both primary and Standby ...
about 11 years ago in Tivoli System Automation 4 Not under consideration

IBM APM Citrix Agent to support https connectivity for the citrix xenapp/Xen Desktop

Citrix XenApp/Xen Desktop is configured with https protocol. Currently we are facing a connectivity issue as IBM APM Citrix agent does not support https connectivity to the citrix application. So we request to provide a new version of IBM APM Citr...
about 3 years ago in ITM/IBM APM 2 Not under consideration

Add context aids when creating Rules for topology

When creating Merge rules and Tags rules within the Topology Configuration page, more context should be provided for the variable you supply in the "Tokens" field. If you are new to adding these kinds of rules, there is very little context in the ...
10 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Planned for future release