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New collector development required to discover from NMS - ABB Hitachi

A new collector is required to fetch topology data from ABB Hitachi. Vendor: ABB Hitachi Name: FOXMAN UN R9C Technology: DVM Protocol: SFTP
about 10 hours ago in Tivoli Network Manager 0 Submitted

Need ability to configure retention period for Traces and Transactional data - Backend database

In Instana we have ability to configure retention period for metrics data and but not for Traces and Transactional data, I need the same flexibility to configure retention period for Traces and Transactional data as well. for example my clickhouse...
13 days ago in Instana / Backend Enablement 0 Planned for future release

Alternative Identity Provider Support for IBM Concert on OpenShift (LDAP & Local Users)

Solution Value Statement Customers deploying IBM Concert on OpenShift often lack OpenID Connect with Keycloak. Providing alternative authentication options such as LDAP or local user management ensures broader adoption, simplifies onboarding, and ...
10 days ago in Concert 2 Under review

Deploy and upgrade all the components in Instana Backend on Openshift with a single Operator

We need to simplify the upgrading and deploying procedure for INSTANA Backend on Openshift, A standard Openshift Operator could be the solution. It should allow to install the components and to upgrade it and the components as a standard Operator ...
3 months ago in Instana / Backend Enablement 0 Under review

Perform the incorrect ifIndex treatment on Extreme equipment.

It has been verified that Extreme devices return ifIndex IF-MIB values ​​that differ from the standard (starting from value 1), while for the LLDP protocol the ifIndex values ​​are correct (starting from value 1). This causes problems in topology ...
5 days ago in Tivoli Network Manager 0 Submitted

Netcool/OMNIbus : RHEL10 support

We plan to use Netcool/OMNIbus 8.1 Core and EIF SDK on RHEL 10.RHEL 10 has already been released, but it is not yet supported for NCO 8.1.Please support Netcool OMNIbus 8.1 Core and EIF SDK for RHEL 10.We hope that this support will be realized soon.
6 days ago in Tivoli Network Manager 0 Submitted

Enhance the event table

Let's say i have 20+ IBMi systems all under the same zone.I have a filter within the Event page that only show me my IBMi Zone, and the table is really hard to read because:- "On" always shows the sensor name (which can be like Active jobs on..., ...
3 months ago in Instana / Backend Enablement 1 Not under consideration

Monitor WebSphere Application Server Thread Usage Percentage with Alerting and Exclusion Support

To further enhance operational visibility, we request an enhancement to monitor thread usage in WAS as a percentage metric with alerting capabilities. Specifically, we propose the following features: Monitor the number of free threads in each WebS...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Backend Enablement 0 Under review

Provide minimal Helm charts for Instana Enterprise Operator and Instana Backend

Summary Our CI/CD pipeline (Jenkins) and artifact-mirroring process are Helm-centric. Today, Instana Enterprise/Backend requires copying individual images and using kubectl instana to render/apply manifests. We request official minimal Helm charts...
25 days ago in Instana / Backend Enablement 0 Under review

Allow multiple custom rules setup including http.header fields e.g. X-Instana-Service

We run multitechnology service architecture and therefore want to be able to map instana service name on multilevel custom rules e.g. http.header fileds.
about 1 month ago in Instana / Backend Enablement 0 Submitted