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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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Report/Service access based on Parent - Child Entity mapping

Parent-Child entity mapping should allow selective access to services/reports based on the authorized list of child entities instead of providing access to all child entities.
10 months ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) 0 Future consideration

OMEGAMON Data Provider support

We are in the middle of a project to rebuild our event management solution. The target architecture should be based on Watson AIOPs and the OMEGAMON Data Provider will deliver data to the Watson AIOps Metric Manager. For this we need the OMEGAMON ...
over 1 year ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

Add incident creation policies based on a specified number of alerts

Administrators should have the ability to create incident policies that specify conditions on number of alerts associated to an incident. For example, if incident policies are triggered only off of alert severity, a large number of incidents could...
10 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 1 Future consideration

Allow multiple columns can be sorted at a time

Currently TEPS only allow a single column can be sorted at a time. It does not allow sub-sort and needs to get multiple columns to make more dynamic display.
10 months ago in ITM/IBM APM 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...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Java 4 Future consideration

OS uptime

I would like to have a metric/event for this parameter. The system uptime value can indicate whether the operating system has restarted or not. The easiest way to do this is to check the uptime of the system. If the uptime of the system is less, t...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Future consideration

Manually set interface speed

For devices that either don't have a speed such as virtual interfaces or interface where the speed can't be modified on the device side. It would be useful to be able to set the speed manually from SevOne. One example would be why we may not be ab...
10 months ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 0 Future consideration

Allow right click action in Alerts page to escalate an alert or group of alerts into an incident

In CP4AIOps 4.3, incidents can only be created off of certain policies created under Automations. If an operator has subject matter expertise on specific alerts and knows they should be escalated to the level of an incident, they should be able to...
10 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

Edit name of resource group after it's created

Once you create a resource group for topology resources in the UI, you can't go back and edit the name of the resource group. If you have to change the name of the resource group for a variety of reasons, you have to recreate the resource group fr...
10 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 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...
over 2 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration