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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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Allow resizing action of namespace quota

We, IBM CIO, set default namespace quotas in OpenShift clusters. However, some applications need to use more resources than the default resource quotas set. Either due to a technical reason or business criticality. Today, we need to contact SRE te...
about 6 hours ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Container Platforms (K8s & OpenShift) 0 Under review

Update the NMS to allow customer defined VPC endpoints for AWS Monitoring

To gather monitoring metrics, the SevOne AWS plugin utilizes a set of unknown (to the user) AWS endpoints published by Amazon, and subject to change. https://ip-ranges.amazonaws.com/ip-ranges.json SevOne documentation requires only an outbound 443...
6 days ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 1 Under review

Node logs(kubelet logs) by using Instana sensor or configurations

to get insights on the events and issues at Node level.
17 days ago in Instana / Logging 1 Under review

OMNIbus SNMP Probe should support SNMPv3 SHA512 authentication type

Security is important for every customer and they want to use strong encryption modes. The SNMP probe is based on net-snmp 5.8 which supports SHA-512: http://www.net-snmp.org/wiki/index.php/Strong_Authentication_or_Encryption Question: Authenticat...
23 days ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review

Support Kafka Protobuf integration in Message Bus probe

Activating this type of integration will allow our clients to continue incorporating the latest technology equipment into their event and alarm management platforms, which positions the product in a better way compared to the competition in the ma...
about 2 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review

Add Alert Channels as scope option in Maintenance Windows

Context: Instana's Maintenance Windows feature offers, at the moment, either Application Perspective, Selected Entities (Dynamic Focus) or Synthetic Tests as scopes in order to generate silence windows. Problem: Maintenance Windows is the only fea...
16 days ago in Instana / Alert 1 Under review

Deploying POP without the need for a Kubernetes cluster

We want to deploy a Synthetic Monitoring POP in a remote location in order to perform synthetic tests. The location does not provide a Kubernetes cluster of any flavour which blocks our use case. We would like to deploy a POP on an Android device ...
9 days ago in Instana / Synthetic 0 Under review

Improve API v2 robustness and error checking

V2 APIs are “blind” and do not consider the health state of the cluster during execution. For example, when creating a device, a success message is returned but when using subsequent API to apply device metadata, device does not exist error is ret...
6 days ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 0 Under review

Functionality to integrate with MAS (Maximo Application Suite) for IT to be able to create incidents, collect changes, etc

Raised on behalf of Telecom Egypt: "What we need is to have a functionality to integrate with MAS for IT to be able to create incidents, collect changes, etc. I took an example of what is already implemented in AIOPS which is “ServiceNow”, this is...
3 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 1 Under review

Chatops should support Webex Messaging (also known as Webex Teams). Currently only Slack and MS-Teams are supported.

WE currently use Webex Messaging as our enterprise collaboration tool. AIOps currently only supports chatops integration from the incident view (and change risk notification) via Slack and MS-Teams, tools we do not currenlty use.
13 days ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review