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Instana support local monitoring For IBM DataPower Physical Appliance

Currently, Instana’s support for DataPower is limited to remote monitoring options for the DataPower Physical Appliance. However, our client is requesting local monitoring capabilities on the appliance itself. Since DataPower operates as a black b...
5 months ago in Instana / DataPower / MQ / Sensor 0 Future consideration

include systemd scripts

Future FPs of TADDM should include systemd scripts for start/stop of the app. systemd is a system and service manager for Linux operating systems. It is the default initialization system for current versions of all major Linux distributions.
4 months ago in Tivoli Application Dependency Discovery Manager 0 Future consideration

Adding Front Side Protocol to monitoring by Instana IBM DataPower sensor

Instana provides monitoring of Multi-Protocol Gateway. But we need to know the status of Front Side Protocol eg. HTTP Handler of the Gateway. Knowing the status (up/down) is very important. Please see attachment.
7 months ago in Instana / DataPower 0 Future consideration

Adding the ability to filter IBM DataPower entities by IBM MQ v9+ objects

Dynamic focus query supports only filtering by appliance, cluster, domain or service objects. It would be useful to have the option to filter IBM MQ v9+ objects using name and status (see the idea INSTANA-I-3384), e.g., entity.ibmdatapower.qmv9.na...
8 months ago in Instana / DataPower 2 Future consideration

Adding status metrics for the IBM MQ v9+ object

The sensor for IBM Data Power and the object IBM MQ v9+ supports only Back-End Active Connections and Front-End Active Connections metrics. However it is important to know the status of the object because it has a tendency to shut down when IBM MQ...
8 months ago in Instana / DataPower / MQ / Sensor 1 Future consideration

To offer TADDM WMI extention update as a .msi file to simplify automating deployment in environments where the autodeploy feature is not an option

With each TADDM Fixpack, an updated TADDM WMI extention is offered. This WMI extention has to be installed on all Windows systems to ensure the Session and Windows Computer Sensors continue to work properly. One can use the WMI Autodeploy feature ...
almost 2 years ago in Tivoli Application Dependency Discovery Manager 0 Future consideration

Suppoert Hardware Management Console (HMC) v9 and 10 or higher

I currently have lost the ability to discover HMC as the Unix admins have updated the product to v10. TADDM currenly only supports v8 or lower. Need to support v10+
almost 2 years ago in Tivoli Application Dependency Discovery Manager 0 Future consideration

include support for the Kerberos/SAML authentication method

NTLM (Incl LANMAN, NTLMv1 and NTLMv2) was depreciated in Jun 2024 from Microsoft’s official announcement. Microsoft had released a MS Jan patch 2025 that enforce to remove the use of NTLMv1 in Win2025 servers. Microsoft may provide a MS patch to r...
8 months ago in Tivoli Application Dependency Discovery Manager 0 Future consideration

Add support for discovery of Cisco Nexus 9000 series switches in TADDM

Issue that TADDM is not supporting discovery of Cisco 9000 switches was raised with TS012734132 case. CTJTD0871W No IP interface was found error is being reported during the discovery of those devices. No relationships to endpoints is being discov...
over 2 years ago in Tivoli Application Dependency Discovery Manager 0 Future consideration

Provide improved Details panel for Cisco Stacked Switches

Improve the Details panel for Cisco Stacked Switches, so Switch information is buried below the physical frames. Support case TS001215656 has the entire history of the issue.
about 7 years ago in Tivoli Application Dependency Discovery Manager 2 Future consideration