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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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Dimensional Micrometer Metrics

Currently it looks like Instana is pulling in micrometer metrics using JMX. As shown in the micrometer docs JMX is Hierarchical which means the metric name is FLAT and includes all tags. This doesn't allow for filtering metrics BY TAG correctly wh...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Java 4 Future consideration

OMEGAMON Data Provider support

We are in the middle of a project to rebuild our event management solution. The target architecture should be based on Watson AIOPs and the OMEGAMON Data Provider will deliver data to the Watson AIOps Metric Manager. For this we need the OMEGAMON ...
over 1 year ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 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

Ability to synchronize TWS files between MDM and BMDM automatically

Replicate TWS, WAS files located under a particular directory structure in MDM to automatically synchronize with the directory structure available in BMDM. localopts, ~/TWS/methods/XA*.opts, security.xml, wimconfig.xml, WAS properties gets changed...
about 7 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Future 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

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

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

TNCM Self Monitoring - Healthcheck

Self Monitoring of TNCM The client would like to have self-monitoring of TNCM, to provide visibility to the Ops team managing TNCM. They would like this provided in the same way as other products in the Netcool suite, ie via events to Netcool OMNI...
over 5 years ago in Tivoli Netcool Configuration Manager 0 Future consideration

Improve customizability of resource management UIs to serve as landing page for specific operators / business personas

The resource management pages should provide more customizability to show different data types and KPIs relevant to specific operators / business personas / application owners. When you are viewing an application/service in the resource management...
10 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Planned for future release

Launch directly to resource management page from login for particular service views

Users should be able to set preferences for the first screen they see after logging in to CP4AIOps. End users may want to go directly to the resource management page or a customized dashboard that shows them high level information about the status...
10 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Planned for future release