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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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Additional Topic Metrics for Kafka

Customer monitors Kafka performance based off lag with the topics. Right now we have bytes metrics along with messages in but they need visibility for the Messages Out metric too. Metrics needed: Messages Out Lag (difference in Messages in and out)
over 1 year ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Future consideration

Process-Level Configuration for Prometheus Scraper in Instana Agent (Kubernetes/OpenShift)

Summary: This idea outlines the essential need for a generic per-process configuration for scraping Prometheus data in Instana. The current missing of this feature limits Prometheus monitoring on Kubernetes and OpenShift; workarounds are causing u...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Agent / Sensor 0 Future consideration

Oracle E-Business Plugin for Workload Scheduler - Job isn't terminated in Oracle upon termination in IWS.

After submission, when the job is running and is reported in EXEC status in IBM Workload Scheduler, you can stop it if necessary, by using the kill command. The kill command stops the job in IBM Workload Scheduler, but not in the Oracle E-Business...
almost 4 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

Currently Sevone lacking many of the fault monitoring features as follows.

Currently Sevone lacking many of the fault monitoring features as follows. > policy should allow multiple plugin metrics for better configuration: If a device is down , ideally it should not trigger 2 alarms , Now sevone policy it will trigger ...
over 1 year ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 0 Future consideration

PowerVM - LPAR HA support

LPAR HA setup, when one LPAR from group scales so does also the other for consistency
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / On-Premises (Hypervisor & Storage & Network) 1 Future consideration

Certify Multi Factor Authentication IBM DASH integration with Okta

Default Authentication for IBM DASH using Websphere is not sufficient to protect unauthorized users into system. Enterprises use Okta's web-based, single sign-on (SSO) application to provide a single centralised interface to access third-party p...
over 2 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

Monitor Workload Filtering

Within Workload Scheduler include an extended filtering mechanism on the Monitor Workload screen. Currently it only works as an include. An extended option would enable filtering for NOT containing or using AND/OR to display more complicated sched...
over 2 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

Oracle agent (RZ) alert log monitor needs to handle a CDB/PDB setup where ORA-errors are now not at the beginning of the alert log entry

This is necessary else there would be no alert log monitoring capability (alerts missed)
over 2 years ago in ITM/IBM APM 1 Future consideration

SevOne DI application if installed on physical appliance may need 'ipmitool' installed as well.

Similar to NMS application, which has 'ipmitool' preinstalled the DI also needs this tool if installed on physical appliance. If someone tries to install it afterwards it fails due to dependency.
over 1 year ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) 0 Future consideration

Ability to create a compliance policy with parameter(s) in compliance manager

Goal is to create a compliance policy where you can set values for validation and remediation on execution.
over 1 year ago in Tivoli Netcool Configuration Manager 0 Future consideration