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Single place to manage agent configuration

Now to configure the agent you must modify the configuration.yaml on the server. The idea is to have a place inside instana front to configure the configuration.yaml of each agent.
12 days ago in Instana / Agent 2 Future consideration

Availability of Metadata Field in Webhook

If Webhook has a ability to incorporate device Metadata , we can use this fields to steer ticket / INC while raising webhook to Service Now / any other 3rd Party Tool
6 days ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 0 Future consideration

Allow the NMS to purge SNMP devices either missing at the SNMP agent (packet error on polling that OID) or missing completely (no response to TCP packets)

As per title, the cluster settings call for set up parameters that take care handling operative or missing objects. However, this should also allow for the removal of any objects with a SNMP Operational or Administrative Status other than down per...
15 days ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 0 Future consideration

support Scala 3.x and ZIO

this feature request based on debug case number TS018964881. right now instana agent does not support Scala 3.x and ZIO. can you support in next release.
6 months ago in Instana / Agent 5 Future consideration

S3 scripting enhancement to allow index to be variable if the values of that variable is integer or another OID.

SNMP scripting documentation explains that "A variable cannot be used as an index number. The index number must be an actual number". Indeed, S3 fails if for example you try to get values of the last character of the string of variable length. Wit...
about 2 months ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 0 Future consideration

Allow Multiple Metadata Fields in Device/Object Group Membership Rule

As we are using Metadata fields to store device or object extra static data, we are facing challenge of only one metadata field can be used in Device/Object Group Membership Rule. Sometimes we can get by creating multiple rules to mimic 'OR' multi...
5 months ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 0 Future consideration

Add a synthetic indicator expression for poll frequency

When creating a synthetic indicator, it was found that if you are trying to convert data to a per second output, rather than the poll frequency, this can be difficult to do in specific situations. For example, a device has an multiple interface ob...
13 days ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 0 Future consideration

Having baselines shifted automatically whenever clock change happens in UK. We do it manually with a php now.

Whenever we had a clock change, all our baseline alerting will report false alarms because of the 1 hr drift. We have to run a custom php provided by support in all the appliances to shift the baselines by 1 hr. Having the baselines shift as part ...
13 days ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 0 Future consideration

Utilise K8s secrets for InstanaAgent configuration

We are currently using the Instana Agent operator in Red Hat Openshift, and need to configure the Instana Agents. There are several places where use of secrets are in plaintext - this is problematic as we use gitops to manage the configuration of ...
6 months ago in Instana / Agent 0 Future consideration

Requesting that an enhancement be created to allow SevOne NMS to interface for user token card authentication on IBM Tivoli WebSphere Application Server using Single-Sign-On

I work for the US Air Force and we need to be able to use our token cards to authenticate from IBM Tivoli JazzSM/DASH to SevOne NMS and SevOne Data Insights. Currently the NMS only supports Okta/Azure SSO/SAML providers. I am not seeing support fo...
11 months ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 8 Future consideration