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WebSphere Automation

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Enhance filtering in the dashboard

On the WSA dashboard, 'Servers' tab, the filter is by cell name, CVE, and WAS version only, my customer prefers to have filtered by server name as well.On the 'Notification configuration', there is no filter to choose under what criteria to send n...
almost 3 years ago in WebSphere Automation 1 Future consideration

Ability to export events of WebSphere Automation to ELK

Customer requests audit trail at the server level and the events to be sent to ELK; events such as: 1. When a CVE is added to the database 2. When a particular server is scanned and first flagged with the CVE (e.g. due to a newly announced CVE or ...
almost 3 years ago in WebSphere Automation 1 Not under consideration

Include embedded products: BAW and ODM

I like the automation feature but it is incomplete without the embedded products. For eg, I cannot use its features on WebSphere that is underneath the BAW or ODM products. So far, I have discovered that even WAS that is installed as part of the p...
about 1 year ago in WebSphere Automation 0 Planned for future release

Enhancement Filtering in notification

There is no filter to choose under what criteria to send notification to whom. e.g. Different teams are responsible for different cells, so notification can be sent based on cell names and the target team. Or some managers prefer to get notificati...
over 2 years ago in WebSphere Automation 0 Future consideration

Provide "summary view" of WebSphere Automation registered servers, total servers, number of cores, etc

Since WebSphere servers are registered with WebSphere Automation, and WebSphere Automation is licensed on the total number of cores available to the registered WebSphere servers, we should provide a "summary page" that shows the total number of re...
over 2 years ago in WebSphere Automation 0 Future consideration

Add a "Test" email button

When configuring the email server settings, it would be very helpful to have a "Test connection" type button to ensure the mail configuration works. In the event of an error, exposing the error through the UI (and not requiring directions to the p...
over 2 years ago in WebSphere Automation 1 Future consideration

Enhance patch automation to support tWAS instances installed by IM in Admin mode

Many tWAS instances were installed by IM in Admin mode. During WSA patch installation, the playbook terminated with error message: >>> ValueError: Installation directory is not owned by wasadmin but IM accessRights is admin The tWAS was ...
almost 2 years ago in WebSphere Automation 0 Planned for future release

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

Export to PDF format (all assets, single server information)

At present, information can be exported as a CSV (comma separated values) format. Exporting the same data in PDF form would also be useful.
about 3 years ago in WebSphere Automation 1 Not under consideration

Integrate with ServiceNow

ServiceNow is how we track change tickets. It would be nice if WebSphere Automation integrated with ServiceNow so that the installations driven by WebSphere Automation could be started from ServiceNow flows.
about 2 years ago in WebSphere Automation 0 Planned for future release