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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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Device Mover GUI Updates

When using device mover it can be very easy or tedious. Adding updating functions to device mover would allow the use of it to become easier. for example adding: a larger selection box under "Device Name" the option to perform one device move by s...
11 months ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 0 Planned for future release

exclude a specific peer from having new devices added to it

I think it would be helpful if there was a drop down list that you could you add to "Cluster Settings" of available peers that you want to allow to be use when a new device is added, essentially adding the functionality of marking peers or HSA's a...
11 months ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 0 Planned for future release

Drag And Drop within "Object Rules"

It would be useful if you could drag and drop rules with an popup "Confirmation" window within SevOne's "Object Rules" page. Wight now if you need to move a new or existing rule from the top to the bottom it can take quite a bit of time if you hav...
11 months ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 0 Future consideration

We would like to control what information is written to the ../TWS/audit/plan files

We can see in the ../TWS/audit/plan the following messages. CONMAN |20231221|095021|20231221|095021| PLJOB |STDLIST | SERVERNNN| twsUSER| | SERVERNNN#Y-ABCDEFG-HIJ[(0800 12/21/23),(0AAAAAAAAAAZGYUW)].Y-QWERTY_JOBLOG sj YBSXLXNNN#0AAAAAAAAAAZGYUW.Y...
11 months ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

Improve i-Series agent performance

Using Instana to monitor IBM i-Series system is not being to successful due to the agent being to heavy on the CPU usage of the i-Series. We need an improvement on the performance of the agent, which currently is to heavy and clients are not willi...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / IBM i / Sensor 1 Is a defect

Durable Topic Subscription in JMS Probe

For high availability, we need to have a durable subscription for the MQ topic which pushes events into the Message Bus Probe. We are using a JMS subscription to push these events. We have noticed that other probes than the Message Bus Probe suppo...
over 3 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 3 Future consideration

Extend the agent API for finer tuning

Hi, We recently came across a monitoring issue of "max_metrics_reached" on an agent. We wanted to investigate which metrics were collected by this agent, to be able to fine-tune the max_metrics parameter without resorting to trial and error. This ...
11 months ago in Instana / API-C 1 Not under consideration

Resource Filtering for Mediation Packs in Predictive Insights

It's currently only possible to filter on Metrics being pushed into Spark/Cassandra, being able to further filter and exclude resources deemed unimportant will help refine and focus Metrics being consumed by the Analytics engine and therefore gene...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 2 Not under consideration

For instana to support monitoring of Solace

We are positioning Instana for their MQ, ACE, and Datapower, and in progress to work with them on POC, they requested Instana support for Solace and Axway.
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Sensor 2 Future consideration

renaming DB's

We love the new infrastructure view in instana and have been using the DB monitoring in particular. We've added 30+ db's and the information seems to be fine. Please see attached screenshots. The problem is that all of the db's in the list view cu...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Infrastructure / Sensor 0 Future consideration