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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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Provide versioning for text mappings added to Generic Webhook connectors and Observers

When adding text in the "Configure event mapping window" within a Generic Webhook connector, there is no tracking changes or history kept from previous versions of the text mapping. The same goes for certain observers, like the Dynatrace observer,...
11 months ago in AIOps Integrations 0 Under review

Allow right click action in Alerts page to escalate an alert or group of alerts into an incident

In CP4AIOps 4.3, incidents can only be created off of certain policies created under Automations. If an operator has subject matter expertise on specific alerts and knows they should be escalated to the level of an incident, they should be able to...
11 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

Group Template Modify/Delete - Display user friendly message on UI

When Group Template is deleted/modified/enabled or disabled, user had no clue that re-computing is happening in the backend. User might go ahead and perform another action on the same template, while in background there is still consolidation happ...
11 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Planned for future release

Edit name of resource group after it's created

Once you create a resource group for topology resources in the UI, you can't go back and edit the name of the resource group. If you have to change the name of the resource group for a variety of reasons, you have to recreate the resource group fr...
11 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

Allow filtration by entity type in Group Management page

We have tons of groups for all sorts of use cases. Currently there's only exact match search, which is not the best especially when there are so many to filter from and having all engineers keep track of all sorts of naming conventions is not simp...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 3 Functionality already exists

Integrated with the Cisco EOS Portal

Compliance and reporting to be integrated with Cisco EOS Portal so that we are informed of devices / ios are unsupported by Cisco
over 5 years ago in Tivoli Netcool Configuration Manager 0 Future consideration

Temporal policies (all policies) should be visible in 'Created by analy...' tab in Manage Policies

Temporal policies (all policies) should be visible in 'Created by analy...' tab in Manage Policies. We selected the 'review first' option for temporal grouping and all temporal policies are now visible in the Suggested tab. But ideally all policie...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

To support HP-UX for installing agent with Unix

We wish to newly install an agent to a server whose OS is hp-ux. Currently, however, only Solaris and AIX can be chosen when we select "Unix" on the screen of "Installing Instana Agent". If you could support hp-ux as well, it'd be great for us and...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Agent 1 Not under consideration

We would like event rules to trigger off of object changes in the database and in the plan

We would like to allow application teams to perform updates in our production environment and we would like to have an event rule trigger when objects are updated in the database and/or in the plan and then send the following information either th...
over 2 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

Secure files in /tmp/.instana

Original issue description: Our security policy does not accept files with permission to write and execute inside the directory "/tmp", as INSTANA creates this type of file in "/tmp/.instana" we have several issues of vulnerability. We verified in...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Agent 3 Not under consideration