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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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Exclude Local FileSystem from monitoring

Currently, there is only option to INCLUDE REMOTE filesystems to be monitored within Instana agent configuration file. Customer is looking for the option to EXCLUDE LOCAL filesystem from monitoring. They do have some filesystems which are nearly f...
3 months ago in Instana / Agent 2 Functionality already exists

AIOps should support display of pre-existing grouping

In the 25 years or so that Netcool has been around, there have been developed several means by which events can be correlated and grouped, not only by us, but by customers alike. It is obvious that rather than try and replace with AI/ML we should ...
6 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review

Add possibility to group alerts by geographic location

We have many smart alerts per country both in the application and website perspective, it would be nice to be able to set a geographic location (editable or not). In our case it would be very useful to have a distribution by continents so as not t...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Real User Monitoring 0 Future consideration

Add support for IBM PowerVS

A certain customer in Japan has finished Turbonomic's PoC and they found some Turbonomic's issues. I would like to describe one of them here. Turbonomic doesn't support Power VS now. They hope Turbonomic will support it. The customer is considerin...
over 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Target Support 1 Not under consideration

nco_p_huawei_u2000_corba - No Filtration properties available on subscribing to Event Notifiation

Probe - nco_p_huawei_u2000_corbaUnlike other CORBA probes where we have the option of filtering the alarms while subscribing to the real time alarms/Notification IRP services. nco_p_huawei_u2000_corba doesn't provide any options/properties to subs...
almost 4 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 2 Not under consideration

Increase MessageLevel logging for http interface separated from setting for the ObjectServer.

To increase logging for curl command control (making a POST request with a JSON body) sent. Now we have only messages about clients connected.
over 1 year ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

Product inconsistent behavior with undeclared variables

The RNA product behaves inconsistently when undeclared variables are used. While it might not be supported undeclared variabled (not in start block) can be leveraged with workflows except when you debug and step through a block that uses that vari...
3 months ago in Rapid Network Automation 0

CCSDWAN Dedicated Cluster: Philips : NMS 6.7.1: Flow reporting issue : Interface index visible instead of Interface name in FIM

In Flow interface manager, we are not seeing interfaces name for the sub interfaces, but it shows with ifindex id which is difficult for us to recognize and not acceptable in the flow reporting. Flow data receiving through sub-interfaces, however ...
3 months ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 1 Functionality already exists

Add top level cloud provider filter to the Action Center Global Environment UI

Currently when starting at the Action Center Global Environment, you have to click on Scale/Volume or Resize/App Component, etc and then select which cloud provider you are interested in. This must be replicated for each level down in the Actions ...
3 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 0 Future consideration

Document the recommended number of events and smart alerts the SaaS by default can support

The information would be useful when development of a solution in which is a replacement of an existing APM. The primary benefit would be to not pick a path only to find out after a large time investment that that option is not able to support the...
3 months ago in Instana / Alert 2 Not under consideration