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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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More verbose/readable audit logs in Instana UI

I would like more verbosity in the Audit Log with more detail of what exactly changed so that I can more accurately evaluate (or undo) changes made by users.
 IIRC this was mainly around 1) the use of IDs rather than display names and 2) vagu...
over 3 years ago in Instana / Access Control 1 Not under consideration

Support of IMS and STP Inventory/Topology Discovery is required in ITNM Collector HuaweiM2K

ITNM Collector HuaweiM2K designed for PSCORE and CSCORE does not discover IMS (IP Multimedia) and STP (Signalling) Inventory/Topology . Enhancement of Collector is required to support same. Note: HuaweiM2K collector works on XML files received fro...
over 7 years ago in Tivoli Network Manager 2 Not under consideration

Separate PATH and user id for ASD DB2 Discovery

Currently the ASD scripts for DB2 uses db2inst id for discovery. the script paths are derived from the home directory of db2inst user id (db2 installation path) we need to seperate the user id used for discovery to something other than the db2 ins...
over 7 years ago in Tivoli Application Dependency Discovery Manager 2 Not under consideration

Set different thresholds for different interfaces

NPI supports setting a threshold value for a metric that will result in an Alarm raised when that threshold is crossed. This allows to take an action when the system is degraded. Current implementation allows to set a threshold value for each metr...
almost 4 years ago in Cloud Pak for Network Automation / Performance 1 Not under consideration

NPI Restoration Blueprint

It is not possible to backup the installation just by copying the folders, because most of the services are installed as OS level service. we can use below options:1. Backup the VM of all the NPI nodes. (should stop all services including Hadoop &...
almost 4 years ago in Cloud Pak for Network Automation / Performance 1 Not under consideration

WebGUI 8.1 : Export to CSV right click tool

Users want to have a right click tool to export all alarms from current event viewer (as per chosen filter) directly to excel/CSV.
almost 4 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Not under consideration

posteifmsg support for RHEL8 on Power8/9 (ppcle)

This RFE is to request to support RHEL8 Server on Power8/9 (ppcle) for posteifmsg command which may also require the support for EIF SDK .
almost 4 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Not under consideration

B2B Branding

Business to commercial enterprise (B2B) groups are special from business to patron (B2C) agencies, so it makes experience that their advertising, advertising, web site design, and so on. Might be special from B2C versions. Yet, topics are somethin...
almost 4 years ago in Cloud Pak for Multicloud Management Ideas 1 Not under consideration

Page administration for NPI to hide some page that not being used

NPI has multiple pages to display stats for multiple service like WIFI, Load Balancer etc. However this may not applicable to individual customer. Looking for an option to disable some of the pages that not being used as it is misleading to users ...
almost 4 years ago in Cloud Pak for Network Automation / Performance 1 Not under consideration

NPI 1.3.1 user interface to manage user and doesn't need to shutdown service to add/remove/modify users

NPI 1.3.1 doesn't have user interface to add, remove or modify users. There is command utility to di user administration however it requires dashboard to be stopped to do user administration.
almost 4 years ago in Cloud Pak for Network Automation / Performance 0 Not under consideration