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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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IBM i - DATAQ message capacity monitoring

An event is required to be triggered when a DATAQ is close to full capacity. https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/i/7.4?topic=services-data-queue-info-view
over 2 years ago in Instana / IBM i / Sensor 0 Future consideration

To support HP-UX for installing agent with Unix

We wish to newly install an agent to a server whose OS is hp-ux. Currently, however, only Solaris and AIX can be chosen when we select "Unix" on the screen of "Installing Instana Agent". If you could support hp-ux as well, it'd be great for us and...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Agent 2 Not under consideration

Add support for a self-hosted appliance on public cloud IaaS

A number of customers are for a self-hosted deployment of a virtual appliance hosted on Public Cloud IaaS as they cannot use SaaS due to data privacy consideration and do not want to go for an OVA deployment as they either have outsourced the on-p...
10 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / General/Other 0 Future consideration

Enhance End user monitoring to make it fully functional with IBM Engineering Lifecycle Management platform

The IBM Engineering Lifecycle Management platform (ELM) is widely used within the automotive industry. It is based on IBM Websphere Application Server with IBM HTTP Server for the web based application. To be able to trace performance issues with ...
10 months ago in Instana / Real User Monitoring 1 Is a defect

Support of nvp_get function in restriction filters of OMNIbusEventReader

We need a policy to be executed by an OMNIbusEventReader when an nvp_attribute has a specific value. At the moment, nvp_get does not work if used in the restriction filter of an OMNIbusEventReader. The policy to be triggered is not being executed ...
about 4 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Not under consideration

Allow the option to set our own custom domain within Apptio

It doesn't look like there's an option in Apptio for true SSO currently unless we use the Azure My Apps URL. As this is quite long, we will implement a workaround where we setup a domain of customerurl and redirect that to the SSO URL. However, on...
10 months ago in Cloudability / User Management & Login 0 Under review

Request to display total number virtual logical processors in Instana dashboard when Windows Server 2019 has more than 64 cores assigned.

Windows 2019 Operating system's native applications such as Task Manager can manage and maintain to show more than 64 logical processors. Instana currently lacks ability to display total number of virtual processors assigned to Windows Server 2019...
10 months ago in Instana / Sensor 1 Future consideration

NMS plugin for Nutanix

Many prospect customer have intention to move out of VMware and 1 of the favorite choice is Nutanix. Demand for Nutanix Plugin to monitor the infrastructure and platform is increasing by day.
10 months ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 2 Future consideration

Displaying Incorrect Assigned Virtual Cores in Instana Dashboard for Windows Server 2019

Problem Statement: The Instana Dashboard does not display the full number of virtual cores assigned to Windows Server 2019 virtual machines due to a design limitation. This creates a discrepancy in monitoring data for Windows 2019 OS, which impact...
10 months ago in Instana / Infrastructure 0 Future consideration

IBM APM 8.1.4 supports RHEL 8.3 or RHEL 8.4?

Please let us know what will be the ETA for IBM APM 8.1.4 supporting RHEL 8.3 or RHEL 8.4
about 4 years ago in ITM/IBM APM 2 Not under consideration