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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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Selective access to logs

Similar to Applications, Infrastructure, etc. It should be possible to restrict access to logs based on specific criteria. Ideally logs would be filtered according to permissions on Applications + Infrastructure. Additionally It'd be great to eith...
10 months ago in Instana / Logging 0 Future consideration

Selective discovery of Prometheus sensor in Kubernetes Clusters

When deploying the Prometheus sensor to Kubernetes it tries to discover prometheus metrics endpoints from every service. This can lead to increased load and logs created by services that do not provide fitting metrics endpoints. When deploying the...
10 months ago in Instana / Kubernetes / Sensor 3 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

SLES15 s390x Compatibility

We run our TADDM environment on SystemZ (S390x) SLES12/15. Looking for gaining ceritifcation and support for the tool on this platform.
11 months ago in Tivoli Application Dependency Discovery Manager 1 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 5 years ago in Tivoli Netcool Configuration Manager 0 Future consideration

Dashboard threshold - marked out/backlighted

In Big Number widget add a field, that will include threshold. When threshold will be reached widget should be marked out/backlighted.
over 1 year ago in Instana / Backend Enablement 0 Future consideration

Show interface bundle (link aggregation) mappings directly in out-of-the-box reports

Allows troubleshooting of bundle (link aggregation) related issues. Show interface bundle mappings directly in out-of-the-box reports, for example "Network Device Summary" and "Network Performance Report".
11 months ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) 0 Future consideration

Add Filter Check Boxes to SDN Fault Widget

The customer stated on a few occasions that "in its current state it is not usable," referring to the SDN Fault Messages widget in Data Insight. The corresponding page in the Cisco APIC GUI has check boxes to hide acknowledged faults and hide dele...
11 months ago in SevOne / Software Defined Networking (SDN) 0 Future consideration

Integrated with the Cisco EOS Portal

Compliance and reporting to be integrated with Cisco EOS Portal so that we are informed of devices / ios are unsupported by Cisco
about 5 years ago in Tivoli Netcool Configuration Manager 0 Future consideration

Zabbix v6.2 integration (scripts) for on-prem Netcool Message Bus probe (webhook)

Cloudpak currently provides the ability to generate scripts to run on the Zabbix admin server - which include the CEM webhook URL etc where Zabbix would then POST events to (https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/noi/1.6.1?topic=SSTPTP_1.6.1/com.ibm.netcool_...
over 1 year ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration