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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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To be able to convert strings from snmp OIDs to values for indicators.

To be able to convert strings from snmp OIDs to values for indicators.
over 1 year ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 1 Planned for future release

Detecting When Devices are Unvailable and Be Notified

For example: If a device is via SNMP and ICMP not available/reachable, then it is most likely down (severity: critical). Otherwise, it is still up (severity: error). So that I can better distinguish whether a device is actually down
over 1 year ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 1 Planned for future release

Oracle Service Names

Discovery Oracle database service names. Discovery the various service names for each database discovered. This information is used by many applications in the connection strings and can be used to build out dependencies and discover configuration...
almost 5 years ago in Tivoli Application Dependency Discovery Manager 2 Planned for future release

attach the joblog to the email for failing job

on SAAS, customer is requiring that in the email received when job is failing, the joblog is also included in the email as an attachment.
about 8 years ago in Workload Automation 2 Not under consideration

Message Bus gateway MQTT transport username/password

The MQTT transport for Message Bus gateway only allows for anonymous connections to an MQTT server. If connection is to a RabbitMQ server, an anonymous connection is usually only allowed from a localhost for security reasons. The transport module ...
almost 5 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 2 Not under consideration

instana ELK plugin is not working as expected if we use someother logshipper like vector

out setup Instana version : 241 Elastic version 8.2 Kibana : Stack Management 8.2.3 vector: 0.27.0-debian if I click on pod or container link as it launching the correct kibana dashboard without any logs as there are some issue in filter string it...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Logging 1 Future consideration

Intgration qradar

In monitoring you need a holistic view, like cloud, multicloud, etc. also you need a main dashboard where everything comes together. security and performance are related to each other. So it will be great if qradar can be integrated in the Instana...
over 3 years ago in Instana 2 Not under consideration

CST. Fix scriptRunner issues (missing runAnyOutputScript in sdriptRunner.ps1 etc

Fix scriptRunner issues (missing runAnyOutputScript in sdriptRunner.ps1, support for spaces in directory/sensor names, and correction of the invocation of the ASDMAINSCRIPT in the archive file). To provide a work-around to officially support async...
over 6 years ago in Tivoli Application Dependency Discovery Manager 1 Not under consideration

analytics - dynamic column width

We use Instana to log behaviour of mobile app. the issue is even with large screen, and small font, the browser cannot display properly the column, in analytics, custom events, or analytics - http request : because all column have the same size, e...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Real User Monitoring 0 Future consideration

Mount Point monitoring for Windows

We need to monitor Infrastructure metrics for Mount points in Windows.
over 1 year ago in Instana / Agent / Sensor 0 Future consideration