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WebSphere Automation

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Support WSA deployed to Power (ppc64)

WebSphere Automation supports deployment to OpenShift on Intel / AMD (x64) and IBM Z Linux (s390x) platforms. This RFE is a request to support IBM Power (ppc64) platforms.
almost 2 years ago in WebSphere Automation 1 Not under consideration

Include configuration assessment in WAS security posture

Considering including a configuration assessment as part of determining the security posture of servers. An example would be to look for older SSL configuration and flag those as insecure. In general, look for configuration that is outside of best...
almost 4 years ago in WebSphere Automation 1 Not under consideration

Simplifying the installation process for fix packs and patches

Currently, updating involves installing fixes at the Deployment Manager (dmgr), which only updates one side of the cluster. The second side requires manual updates to each application server within that cluster, which can be cumbersome. A signific...
6 months ago in WebSphere Automation 1 Not under consideration

Configure Polling Intervals

Can we make the polling( WSA to WAS every 15 minutes, WSA to IBM every 1 hour) intervals configurable?
6 months ago in WebSphere Automation 1 Not under consideration

Support for System i

WSA currently does not support IBM i, see https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/ws-automation?topic=known-issues-limitations#ts-r-known__fixzosiseries. But my customer runs WAS ND on different platforms including Linux, Windows and System i and is interest...
about 2 years ago in WebSphere Automation 0 Not under consideration

Custom Health Investigations

Custom investigations (events and runbook jobs). Provide a means to tie together "custom events" with "custom actions", analogous to custom health policies in WAS ND Intelligent mgmt. Gives us a fallback answer for everything that is not built in ...
about 3 years ago in WebSphere Automation 1 Not under consideration

Integrate with Elastic Stack for health data

Integrate with Elastic Stack for health data
about 3 years ago in WebSphere Automation 0 Not under consideration

Integrate with Prometheus for health data

Integrate with Prometheus for health data
about 3 years ago in WebSphere Automation 1 Not under consideration

Configuration drift detection

Detect when configuration drift has occurred between different environments (pre-prod and prod) or servers within environments.
over 3 years ago in WebSphere Automation 1 Not under consideration

Define custom views tailored to different audiences

We would like to configure the live view to tailor it to different audiences, likely mapped to the Role that the user is in. E.g. An "executive roll-up" view with R/Y/G and a "security specialist" role that has deeper data on the vulnerabiltiies (...
almost 4 years ago in WebSphere Automation 0 Not under consideration