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Ability to generate topology for multiple devices at same time (currently only allowed with single device selection)

Would allow to save time when generating maps for different scope
about 2 years ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) 2 Planned for future release

Need ability to edit Topology generation results limit

Currently limit is 300 which is way too small for our network.
about 2 years ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) 0 Future consideration

nco_p_message_bus - message_bus_cisco_epnm supporting EMS server redundancy

To support redundancy at the endpoint, an enhancement is required for the probe to rotate endpoint addresses between the primary and backup servers depending on availability. EMS - Cisco EPNM Probe - nco_p_message_bus Transport - Websocket (messag...
about 4 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

Allow Mailman Server to continue processing other servers after a failed server

Please refer to We have 20 servers under the control of a single Mailman server , Which processes the message queue. We had a failure on 1 server , which in turn caused ALL other server messages NOT to be processed. which eventually IWS believed t...
about 3 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

Time data needed at the call details panel

It is not easy to know the starting time and the latency for calls, when the timeline is not shown in the analyzer, i.e., for big traces. My proposal is to show, in the call details panel, at what time the call started and which was its latency. T...
about 3 years ago in Instana / Application perspectives 0 Future consideration

Interface to verify Users are part of existing LDAP/AD Instana configuration and also to know the group mapping of a Active Directory user

Currently, Instana does not offer a built-in feature to directly view the users part of the AD group configured in Instana and also to view group membership of users (such as the "memberOf" attribute) within the platform based on Instana LDAP/AD c...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Self Hosted 1 Not under consideration

ThoughtSpot maintenance should be performed outside of working hours.

On the top page of ThoughtSpot, there is an announcement that "ThoughtSpot service will be unavailable from 10 11 2023 4:00 UTC to 10 11 2023 8:00 UTC due to maintenance".This is from 1:00PM to 5:00PM Japan time, which is during working hours. Ple...
about 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Reporting 0 Not under consideration

Alert on health check status of container not running in Kubernetes

Docker provides a healthcheck field, that determines the health status of a container (which can be retrieved from the .state.Health.Status field via docker inspect ). This field cannot be used in an alert today. Link: https://docs.docker.com/engi...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Alert / Sensor 0 Future consideration

Ability to have a "No Action" Compliance rule terminator

We want to be able to check if a device has a feature and then confirm it is configured correctly. If it does not have the feature, the compliance policy should not fail. There should be a rule "No Action" terminator for the compliance fule.
about 6 years ago in Tivoli Netcool Configuration Manager 0 Future consideration

Configuration option for Tracing of SQL query parameters (PostgresQL)

In certain cases, it would be helpful for us to see the query parameters of a query. We would like to have a configuration option to switch tracing on for specific services or even only database entities. E.g. we are having a concurrent access on ...
about 3 years ago in Instana / Tracing 1 Not under consideration