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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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Trap correlation and Send SNMP trap based alerts to Netcool or any event Manager

Sevone has the ability to receive the traps and generate alerts but its lack to send this alert to any of the event manager via Trap . Because of this trap processing bears no value . As an end user they prefer to see both threshold and trap based...
over 1 year ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 1 Functionality already exists

Currently Sevone lacking many of the fault monitoring features as follows.

Currently Sevone lacking many of the fault monitoring features as follows. > policy should allow multiple plugin metrics for better configuration: If a device is down , ideally it should not trigger 2 alarms , Now sevone policy it will trigger ...
over 1 year ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 0 Future consideration

Setting Delay in sending threshold trap to destination

If we impose a delay suppose 5 min , It will be helpful to avoid the alerts which are clearing in 5 minutes of time not send to netcool or the destination event manager and subsequently we can avoid these tickets. Now due to lack of this feature ,...
over 1 year ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 5 Not under consideration

Need to get performance data from IBM Storage and Brocade SAN into Instana

we using only IBM Storage e.g. FS9200, FS9500, FS5xxx and Brocade SAN Directors and Switches. We need to get performance data from these devices into Instana and also into AIOPS for ML purpose either from each device directly or e.g. from Storage ...
over 1 year ago in Instana / IBM Storage / Sensor 1 Not under consideration

Placeholder support for ComputerSystems not fully discovered

Option to set the isPlaceholder attribute to True for ComputerSystems that have not been fully discovered to provide a easy way to decide whether the discovered data can be considered complete or not
over 6 years ago in Tivoli Application Dependency Discovery Manager 1 Not under consideration

PowerVM - LPAR HA support

LPAR HA setup, when one LPAR from group scales so does also the other for consistency
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / On-Premises (Hypervisor & Storage & Network) 1 Future consideration

Adding sticky bits setgid and setuid on DB2 directories

System details: ITM version: 6.3.7 SP13OS: Linux OS RHEL 7.9TEPS-DB: DB2 v11.5.8.0TDW-DB: Oracle Database 19c We have received a security compliance finding related with DB2 world writeable directories. The following 2 directories are world writea...
over 1 year ago in ITM/IBM APM 4 Not under consideration

Java method tracing pre-defined options

Instana is unable to determine the time/performance at the Java “method” level. Instana requires either of the two of traces to be enabled to capture the method level performance, 1. Configuration based SDK trace: No changes on the application cod...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Java 1 Planned for future release

Supporting aio-pika 6.7.1 library for Python application

Hi, We our Python application makes calls to RabbitMQ by using aio-pika library and in Instana we dont see these calls.Could you please look at it and add supporting this library?Thank you.
over 2 years ago in Instana / Python 0 Planned for future release

Oracle agent (RZ) alert log monitor needs to handle a CDB/PDB setup where ORA-errors are now not at the beginning of the alert log entry

This is necessary else there would be no alert log monitoring capability (alerts missed)
over 2 years ago in ITM/IBM APM 1 Future consideration