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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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Custom events to support dynamic macros

Today, when we create custom event, we specify the title and description along with the event trigger criteria. Based on the trigger, event with the given title is created. And we see multiple events with same title, based on how many such events ...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Alert 0 Submitted

SevOne Cisco ACI Solution should write ACI Faults to the Database for Baselining

Currently today the Cisco ACI solution is able to visualize the Fault Messages that are available from the APIC and the POD but is not written to the database. This means that users of the solution can see what is available in real time but can no...
5 months ago in SevOne / Software Defined Networking (SDN) 0 Future consideration

IBM JDBC Gateway for Netcool should support PostgreSQL OR MongoDB?

PostgreSQL is Opensource and widely used DB. Similarly, MongoDB as well is getting wider recognition. Support of these DBs is already there in IMPACT but missing for IBM JDBC Gateway. So, IBM JDBC Gateway for Netcool should support PostgreSQL OR M...
8 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

update the Workload Improvements Charts to include what a workload is.

Customers want to track licenses - and often think they can use the workload chart to do so - but they cannot. A separate Idea for Enhancement will be added today. If the documentation was updated to include the following - it would add clarity. A...
about 2 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Documentation 1 Needs more information

Place holder for "offline" Event types

We have created alert based on "Offline" event, if a service goes down. But we need to insert a "place holder" so that it shows us what is the service which went offline in subject line or heading. This will help us identifying quickly what servic...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Application perspectives 1 Functionality already exists

Webhook for ElasticSearch Integration needs to support the objects included in the JSON format

The current Webhook for ElasticSearch Integration should be able to parse the current Elastic Common Schema as defined here: https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/ecs/current/ecs-log.html
6 months ago in AIOps Integrations 2 Under review

IBM SevOne NMS Alert Dashboard needs to display the Metadata column

The end-customers wants to display the Metadata field at the same time when he sees a problematic Object or Device on the Alert Dashboard (because there are fields such as the unit used and the contact person in the Metadata) The end-customer want...
over 1 year ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 5 Future consideration

Enhancement of Topology API to provide the "hostname" of the deleted/terminated resources.

NTT (Customer) is using our /events API to retrieve all events. The events API provides the snapshotId of the entity, such as a process. They want the host information for that process, and we suggested using the topology API (/api/infrastructure-...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Integrations 0 Planned for future release

Display QAUDJRN audit metrics in customized dashboard

This capability would be useful for our AS400 customers who needs to parse their QAUDJRN audit journal metrics to a dashboard. So far, Instana can retrieve the metrics but unable to display it properly in its dashboard. We can extract the journal ...
6 months ago in Instana / IBM i 2 Under review

Device Type Classification in SevOne REST API

My team owns IBM CP4AIOPS ASM observer that responsible for resource topology discovery. We do have an integration with SevOne, called SevOne Observer. At the moment. I have a request from StarHub and EastLink on the capability for AIOPs to classi...
7 months ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 4 Future consideration