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IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps

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Import multiple XML files to topology module in AIOps via file observer

We seek to import multiple XML files in Topology module rather than JSON files.The file observer can ingest JSON format as provided in this documentation (https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/cloud-paks/cloud-pak-aiops/4.8.0?topic=jobs-file-observer). Howe...
18 days ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

Provide the ability to merge dissimilar resources.

Sometime various observers, integration or data sources create too many resources that have limited value and may be more suitable as properties of another resource. Often these resources are of a different classification (eg virtual server and CP...
about 2 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

Improve the vCenter observer for CP4AIOPS and ASM.

Current observer contains a lot of resources that have limited value by themselves and should be properties of a parent. For example virtual servers are a resource but the observer also creates a child resource for each VM called CPU that contains...
about 2 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

Resource alerts in Topology

When looking at a resource in topology, we have a tab showing the resource's alerts. Unfortunately, we can only see a summary, severity and the last change. Seeing full details on the alarm, we have to switch to the Alerts Viewer. It would help a ...
2 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 1 Future consideration

Supported observer for ingesting Forward Networks topology

We have several customers asking for the ability to leverage Forward Networks topology data in Cloud Pak for AIOps. Forward Networks is their main source of truth used for network discovery and network management, and we should be able to incorpor...
2 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

AIOps Topology template to filter on elements' alert status

When creating dynamic templates, we sometimes run into issue that the resulting resource groups are quite huge (1000+ elements). From an operator's perspective, the focus is usually on resources having issues (alerts). We'd therefore like to have ...
3 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

Customisable legend in AIOps Topology Viewer

Looking at the screenshot attached, we are using some custom background and border colors. Within the topology view, there is a legend, which explains to the users, what the icons and colors in a topology visualisation mean. Having a customisable ...
3 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

We would like for the default comparison operator in Maintenance mode to default to the "in" operator.

Per our NOC, they would find it easer to setup Maintenance Mode when the default operator is set to "in" rather than the "=". Please reference IBM PMR Case TS016792091.
3 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

Strengthening bus safety policies for clients with regulatory compliance

Customers in industries that are subject to regulatory review may comply with required security controls. This customer currently requires these security controls that are not implemented in OMNIBus: New passwords must not contain a sequence of th...
4 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

JDBC gateway supporting PostgreSQL database

GSMA accounts are requesting Netcool to integrate to PostgreSQL database. PostgreSQL also known as Postgres, is a free and open-source relational database management system. Many accounts are looking to integrate to postgressql. I see Netcool impa...
5 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 1 Future consideration