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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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Terraform support for Infrastructure Smart Alerts is needed

There is currently no terraform code available to creating Infrastructure Smart Alerts. This capability is missing but needed for a customer engagement.
3 months ago in Instana / API-C / Infrastructure 0 Future consideration

Support monitoring "IBM Cloud Databases for MySQL"

[Background] The customer is developing the system on IBM Cloud, and uses a lot of "IBM Cloud Databases for MySQL" instances.The customer wants to monitor all IBM Cloud services on Instana, but Instana doesn't support monitoring "IBM Cloud Databas...
3 months ago in Instana / IBM Cloud 1 Future consideration

Clone OCP and NOI configurations from an existing system to a newly created system

The customer has one OCP that runs NOI test and NOI prod as a full cloud installation. The problem with this setup is that sometimes operations are used on one NOI, that also affect the other NOI instance on the same OCP. To avoid such dependencie...
over 1 year ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

Integration with hashicorp Vault supported namespaces

A client uses namespaces in HashiCorp Vault, but namespaces are not supported for integration from the Instana agent, so the only option at the moment is to use the root in HashiCorp Vault which may result in a security observation as it would hav...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Integrations 0 Future consideration

Enable the use of Google Maps for Topology Resource Map

The customer would like to use Google Maps rather than OpenStreetMap for the Resource Map https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/cloud-paks/cloud-pak-aiops/4.6.1?topic=elements-configuring-advanced-settings#resource_map
3 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review

IWS : Undo cancel pending operation

Once a cancel pending operation is executed, there is no way to undo this action.
7 months ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

Map Visualization for reporting

Workforce accounts for a majority of spend and being able to view it in a map view to understand footprint and cost per area would be very helpful. View attached image for a reference. Would like granularity not just based on country but by states...
10 months ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Data/Model Studio 0 Future consideration

Update SNMP (Under TRAPD) to accept more SNMPV3 protocols

Within SevOne's SNMPV3 setup, (TrapD) only the following protocols are allowed to accept traps generated by SNMP : DES, AES128, AES192, and AES256. 3DES encryption is not a "supported protocol" to accept generated SNMP Traps inbound into SevOne......
about 2 months ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 0 Future consideration

Events - Event table should have the affected entity name

In the events-event table, with the title, on, started, end, timeline, state, the entity name is not present or sortable on the entity to determine if the events are focused on affected population. The on column should include the entity name not ...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Common 0 Not under consideration

All tables should be able to be sorted, filtered, shared and exportable to csv

Since there is not a way to inject custom fields/values such as a note that a specific agent, event, smart alert is a work in progress, or associated to a specific project task or incident response, we have to be able to create order listing of th...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Common 1 Under review