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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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Schedule X working day of the month

Hello.When planning in a distributed environment from the graphical console, I don't see the possibility of planning a certain working day of the month, I have seen that it allows planning, for example, the second calendar day of the month, or the...
over 1 year ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

Dimensional Micrometer Metrics

Currently it looks like Instana is pulling in micrometer metrics using JMX. As shown in the micrometer docs JMX is Hierarchical which means the metric name is FLAT and includes all tags. This doesn't allow for filtering metrics BY TAG correctly wh...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Java 4 Future consideration

Being able to process v3 SNMP traps by auto discovering EngineID

Currently the SNMP (mttrapd) Probe only supports configuring the Engine ID's first, before being able to receive the SNMPv3 Traps. Probe should work in following fashion , this will take out of manual work to monitor traps from 100s thousands devi...
about 2 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

When using an Event Viewer in WebGUI, the customer would like to be able to see configurable 'mouse over' or mouse 'hover' text for any column.

When using an Event Viewer in WebGUI, the customer would like to be able to see configurable 'mouse over' or mouse 'hover' text for any column. With the following :- The option to be able to add custom text to be displayed on mouse over for any co...
over 1 year ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

Watson AIOPS / Netcool® Operations Insight - Event Manager Operator to support manual PVC provisioning

Currently the Event Manager operator(https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/noi/1.6.7?topic=about) requires specific storage classes to be selected when installing the Operator with the persistence option enabled.This approach requires to have a storage clas...
over 1 year ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 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...
over 1 year ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

Citrix Hypervisor Monitoring

Thinking if a sensor could be able to consume RRDsCustomers can monitor the performance of their Citrix Hypervisor servers and Virtual Machines (VMs) using the metrics exposed through Round Robin Databases (RRDs). Here is the link for details: htt...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Future consideration

Event Analytics : Sort/Filter/Search

Enhancement 4 – Functionality IBM to create: Sort, Filter and Search on Policies including the Custom Fields
over 2 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

Configuration of Access and Error Logs Retention and Size Policies for Nginx in Instana

Currently, the access and error logs generated by Nginx in Instana are stored under /var/log/instana/nginx and can occupy significant disk space. However, there is no way to configure retention and size policies for these logs, which can lead to s...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Self Hosted 5 Future consideration

Drag And Drop within "Object Rules"

It would be useful if you could drag and drop rules with an popup "Confirmation" window within SevOne's "Object Rules" page. Wight now if you need to move a new or existing rule from the top to the bottom it can take quite a bit of time if you hav...
9 months ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 0 Future consideration