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Install Windows Agent without administration privileges

Hi team, we would like to have the option to install the Windows Agent without needing to have administration privilege. Could you consider this, understanding this might limit some of the functionality that the agent provides? Thanks in advance, ...
16 days ago in Instana / Agent 2 Needs more information

Provide safe way to execute certain tasks which had been automated prior to 7.0 as a root user

Root access removed in NMS 7.0+ breaks customer automation workflows, particularly certificate renewal automation. As certificate lifecycles decrease, manual renewal becomes unsustainable without a least-privilege alternative. Operational Risk Cer...
17 days ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 4 Needs more information

Cloud Pak for AIOps - VMware vCenter Observer capabilities

Improved and enhanced functionality of the Cloud Pak for AIOps - VMware vCenter Observer capabilities
18 days ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Needs more information

[GOV][INSTANA][PROD][PLATFORM] Feature Request: Automated Log Retention Policy for Instana

Hi Team, We are currently experiencing frequent disk utilization issues in our Production Instana environment. At present, we are relying on manual cleanup activities every month to maintain stability. While we have a temporary workaround in place...
29 days ago in Instana / Self Hosted 1 Needs more information

Windows Top 10 processes

Provide the ability to display top 10 processes by CPU/Memory much like the Linux agent can.
about 1 month ago in Instana / Sensor 1 Needs more information

Integration with Microsoft Hyper-V

The customer who is gradually adopting Concert Workflow in his hybrid cloud env. (Azure, on-prem, etc.) would like to test integration between CW and Microsoft Hyper-V. Looking at the CW catalog there are several integration blocks for VMware. The...
about 2 months ago in Concert Workflows 1 Needs more information

Add Kubecost as a standard connection for importing data

Create a connector that will import data from a standalone Kubecost installation to allow import to Cloudability similar to FOCUS format or other vendors. We have multiple years of history that we want to load into Cloudability for reporting and p...
about 2 months ago in Cloudability / Container Reporting 1 Needs more information

Clean & Pruning Poll Database

We need a way to prune and clean poll database, like the one done in ncim when we start fresh discovery and remove old caches and DNCIM folder. this is very important as there a lots un-needed data from testing and trying different combination of ...
about 2 months ago in Tivoli Network Manager 1 Needs more information

Message bus probe is unable to perform the resync when the target system requires a multi-step authentication flow

Currently, the probe is unable to perform native resync when the target system requires a multi-step authentication flow, specifically:a. Resync request requires a valid token and Token can only be generated using a ticketb. Ticket itself is gener...
2 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 1 Needs more information

Smart alerts on Core Web Vitals statistics

It'd be useful to be able create smart alerts based on Core Web Vital statistics like "Interaction to Next Paint (INP)". Being able to create alerts based on these would open multiple possibilities to monitor web application performance. For examp...
2 months ago in Instana / Alert 2 Needs more information