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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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sshd and security ciphers that are no longer recommended by the industry

Within SSHD.conf there are older unsupported security ciphers that the industry has recommended to be mitigated. (This was found during a network security scan) Below is an export from SSHD.conf in its original file. # Limit the Ciphers and MACs t...
about 1 year ago in SevOne / Configuration and Administration 0 Planned for future release

Openshift Service Mesh support

Instana agent on Openshift currently does not support Service Mesh bypass and monitoring .
about 1 year ago in Instana / Agent 2 Planned for future release

Log4Net & SeriLog missing tags

Instana's log monitoring supports several very useful default tags, some of these tags are sadly not filled in for the popular .NET (Framework) logging frameworks, see below. Please fill these tags such that we can actually use the log monitoring,...
about 2 years ago in Instana / .NET / Logging 0 Planned for future release

TADDM DB2 sensor enahancement

DB2 sensor executes db2find.sh during discovery that uses list db directory command to find out the Databases. This command lists the contents of the system database directory. In the command output there is a "Directory entry type" showing the lo...
almost 8 years ago in Tivoli Application Dependency Discovery Manager 1 Planned for future release

Inport capability should not overwrite prior months

Im port capability within forecast overwrites prior months and not just future periods. For example, an April Forecast should only allow for modification April-Dec and not have an impact Jan-Mar. Currently, it impacts Jan-Mar and customer believes...
about 1 year ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Planned for future release

Support for MaprFS

The filesystems are not mounted but show up using iostat. Please make it visible in instana. Reference for MaprFS (https://docs.datafabric.hpe.com/60/MapROverview/c_maprfs.html)
about 2 years ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities / Sensor 2 Planned for future release

Event handler email attachments

An Action to send an email should allow one or more file attachments.
almost 7 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Planned for future release

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...
about 1 year 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...
about 1 year ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 0 Planned for future release

Make "In Error Predecessors" column clickable/to drill through the jobs via Monitor Critical Jobs in Dynamic Workload Console

Monitor Critical Jobs in DWC just shows the number of abend predecessor jobs in "In Error Predecessors" column. It will be better if the column is made clickable similar to "Not Completed Predecessors" so the errored predecessor jobs can be viewed...
over 2 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Planned for future release