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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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Data Insight Report Widgets should allow the customer to save a report without choosing a resource.

At the moment when the customer copies a template to create a new report DI requires the customer to choose an object or group for the widgets within the report. This requirement causes issues with reports that have large object counts, and the cu...
10 months ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) 0 Future consideration

AWS Lambda "invoke" instrumentation

Hello, Recently we have been trying to add our AWS Lambdas to our instana monitoring. We successfully added the node package where it was needed and got good results on lambda call via Messaging (like SQS) or Api Gateways. But we have a problem wh...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Java 1 Future consideration

UI configuration option for case-insensitive username with LDAP

Currently, IBM Cloud Private only accepts case-sensitive usernames from LDAP. This is atypical and confusing for users as a result, especially if they're not even aware of how their username appears in the database. It can currently be configured ...
almost 6 years ago in Cloud Pak for Multicloud Management Ideas 1 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

add cgroups v2 PSI metrics to Instana

With the cgroupv2 starting to emerge maybe is a good idea to start collecting and using the PSI metrics available in machines/containers that enabled cgroupsv2. They are valid for Servers and containers. You can find details here about the PSI met...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Future consideration

Variance Analysis Report

There needs to be a report available in IT-Planning or CT to display the summary of Variance Analysis.  1) Summary of Analysis or comments that users provided 2) Summary of users that missed to update the Analysis even after the threshold for...
10 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Future consideration

On linux JOB the JobManager should expand environment variable (if used) in stdout and stderr definition

On a JOB kind "executable" if we use environnement variable in stdout and stderr definition : they are not expanded as they should. May bhis include this another enhancemnt : possibility to add a ".profile" in configuration list of the JOB (becaus...
10 months ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

alerting on the dreaded "broadcast storm" scenario

as I am aware SevOne does not have a preferred way to alert on the dreaded "broadcast storm" scenario. This is how I have it configured within my deployment: Currently I monitor on broadcast storms in the following manner: -broadcast storm occurs ...
10 months ago in SevOne / Configuration and Administration 0 Future consideration

SevOne NPM - Data Insight Reporting Handcuffed by Data Source

Cigna divides their SevOne monitoring by business unit so when creating an over all health report they are required to also to use three different widgets for each data source making it very difficult to understand the over all health of their inf...
11 months ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) 0 Future consideration

Updated Email Log

Sometimes there are email issues... An updated email log would be very helpful to SevOne admins. Just an email only log that easy to get to, look at, understand and no need to dig thru any other noise within the logs. I do understand that you get ...
11 months ago in SevOne / Configuration and Administration 1 Future consideration