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PINNED Configure maintenance flyouts
User interface settings include the option “Show maintenance notes”. How can I as onprem-backend administrator configure and switch on such flyouts to inform my users about upcoming maintenance?

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Add target support to IBM PowerVM

I received from Turbonomic & SevONE Sales Director, Technology Business Unit Data,AI&Automation Div. IBM Japan, Ltd. that IBM does not support IBM AIX and Oracle VM on Turbonomic. My client TOHOKU EPC's subisidiary TOiNX requested us to su...
about 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Target Support 2 Delivered

allowing Topology Manager to get all the informations about network interfaces of the devices on map imported from SevOne via dedicated observer

It is useful for all the opportunities in IBM that we must propose to customer where Watson AIOps and SevOne should be integrated.
over 1 year ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 1 Delivered

Add support for multiple ObjectServers in Runbook Automation (Netcool Impact)

Our customer is extending their Netcool landscape to integrate several sites into one centralized stack. Doing so, multiple ObjectServer (one pair per site) will be connected to this centralized approach, resulting in a need for Impact to support ...
over 3 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 2 Delivered

Upgrade TEPS - Embedded Jetty Version

As per recent security scan report Jetty Version 6.1.x ( TEPS - Embedded Jetty Version) was detected and pointed out as "Out dated version" and suggested for up-gradation to the latest version. Could please upgrade / release the latest TEPS - Embe...
about 5 years ago in ITM/IBM APM 5 Delivered

FR - Certificate Expiry Sensor

Hi, As an Instana user I would like the ability to have a metric showing the number of days until a certificate expires, including the ability to alert at x or y days until expiry, so that I can proactively prevent issues caused when this happens. BR
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Synthetic 4 Delivered

ITNM SNMP poll definition should allow setting specific index

When trying to snmp poll for e.g. a routing engine teperature index it resulted that it is not possible to query directly from the basic threshold policy on an indexed OID like 1.3.6.1.4.1.2636.3.1.13.1.7.9.1.0.0. It is only possible to poll for t...
about 10 years ago in Tivoli Network Manager 2 Delivered

Instrumention module for gorm databases

We understand that for golang database/sql tracing is available (https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=go-collector-common-operations#how-to-instrument-a-database-connection-created-with-sqlopen). However we use gorm.Open...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Go / Tracing 1 Delivered

Monitoring Weblogic - v14c not supported regarding IBM Instana documentation

Hi. Our big customer using Instana and core application on Weblogic. Recently they upgraded Weblogic ftom 12 > 14 but REGARDING Instana official documentation this is not supported: Currently supported versions are: 10gR3, 11gR1, 12cR1 and 12cR...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Agent / Java 4 Delivered

Add support for SHA256 encryption for SNMPv3 discovery and polling in ITNM

We all need a good hash encryption algorithm in SNMPv3. SHA 1 is likely to be broken and all the NE vendors and security policies are moving to SHA2. We opened the case TS007203260 recently and we were told that SHA256 support is not planned for t...
almost 3 years ago in Tivoli Network Manager 2 Delivered

RightSize vCPU and vMem at the Same Time

For on-prem VMs, I’d like Turbo to be able to RightSize a VM’s vMem and vCPU at the same time instead of requiring a reboot for each action - which further requires 2 separate outage windows because the recommendations go away for ~4 hours when a ...
about 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM 4 Delivered