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On IBM AIX, Instana should not count filecache (completely) as "used_memory"

AIX by default uses available memory as filecache (between limits set by parameters minperm% and maxperm%), usually up to 90% of the total memory size. When the applications use only a small portion of available memory, the remainder (or large par...
about 1 year ago in Instana / IBM Power / Sensor 3 Future consideration

Monitoring AIX Metrics on Instana

Title: Monitoring AIX Metrics on Instana Details: IsBank would like to monitor and be able to create events on AIX hosts regards to the metrics below: - CPU run queue - NFS filesystem usage - Raw disk (not filesystem) utilization, for hdisks, read...
11 months ago in Instana / IBM Power / Sensor 1 Future consideration

Need to enhance the AIX / LPAR monitoring as the basic monitoring is not sufficient to understand the performance problems.

After speaking to the IBM Power Sales team, existing AIX metrices are not sufficient even when enhanced with the IBM pHMC sensor metrices. The customers are relying on the vmstat/iostat/nmon commands to extract reports and do manual work of assess...
over 1 year ago in Instana / IBM Power / Sensor 2 Future consideration

Executed Actions - Succeeded and Failed Dashboard enhancement

Executed Actions on the Cloud Executive Dashboard - Succeeded and Failed Dashboard shows all actions that have been actioned within Turbonomic and Externally. It would be good if the associated financials could be seen next to each action ie what ...
about 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Reporting 2 Future consideration

Record and preserve all data points in the Actions Executed log

Looking at the Executed Actions - Succeeded widget on the Action Impact & Savings dashboard, download the report. The issue is that in auditing groups of historical actions, it appears some of them are missing the volume and/or target IDs that...
11 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Reporting 1 Future consideration

Out of box Dashboards don't display consistent timeframes

When viewing the Dashboards such as: Cloud Executive Dashboard, Action Impact & Savings, all the widgets are using different timeframes and manual drop-down also doesn't offer consistent time frame. Example 1: The slider bar at the top shows 2...
about 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Reporting 1 Future consideration

For the Power systems, need local agent in VIOS similar to what others are certified for in https://community.ibm.com/community/user/power/viewdocument/vios-recognized-list

Local agent installations on the VIOS on Power Servers will help to fetch metrices at more granular level than the minimum 5m offered by the HMC. After discussion with Power sales team, this remains one of the main bottleneck to position Instana a...
over 1 year ago in Instana / IBM Power / Sensor 1 Future consideration

IBM PowerHMC Sensor - Enable Logical Partition "state" metric for custom event

We must be able to create a Custom Event for the LPAR status when it is not running.
about 2 years ago in Instana / IBM Power / Sensor 0 Future consideration