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Custom Agent installation path

This request is related to a missing option that allows to define a custom path for agent installation on both Windows and Linux. The need is to install the agent in a folder other than the default folder, for security compliance reasons.
over 1 year ago in Instana / Agent 2 Not under consideration

Automated Custom certificates with no down time

We have a huge environment and distributing the certificates or scripts to each agent is not feasible. Provide an automated certificate process where the new certs are provisioned on each agent in parallel with the existing ones to allow either of...
9 months ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

Be able to change work station type

To simplify transition for objects defined on extended agent to dynamic pool agent. To be able to change workstation type from extended agent to dynamic pool on the go for migrations purposes.
over 4 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

GCP Workflow Plugin: Enable Custom Project ID for Execution

We request the implementation of a new feature in the Google Cloud Workflows plugin (12.2.0.03) for IBM Workload Automation (IWS) that allows users to explicitly specify a Google Cloud Project ID for workflow execution. Currently, it appears that ...
6 months ago in Workload Automation 0 Under review

GCP Workflow Plugin: Allow Specifying Different Billing/Quota Project

Currently, the Google Cloud Workflows plugin (12.2.0.03) for IBM Workload Automation (IWS) appears to limit workflow execution to the Google Cloud Platform (GCP) project associated with the Service Account specified in the IWS connection definitio...
6 months ago in Workload Automation 0 Under review

In the "Oracle RAC" configuration, we would like to be able to monitor without using "SCAN IP" or "SCAN hostname."

Instana's monitoring of "Oracle RAC" only supports "SCAN IP" or "SCAN hostname." Therefore, we would like to be able to monitor in the "Oracle RAC" configuration without using "SCAN IP" or "SCAN hostname." There are "Oracle RAC" configurations w...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Agent 1 Future consideration

News Banner on IWS DWC portal after user login

If there option to add cusmised Colored scrolling or fix News Banner on IWS DWC portal after any Oprator login to portal,Thsi will be very usefull to anounce planned CRQ for IWS or DWC portal or Admin can put outage details in advance in News Banner
about 2 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Future consideration

Host Agent to run without sudoers permission

We've gotten this request from a few customers that don't want processes running as root. The request is to provide support for the Host Agent to run as non-root user. The customer understands that they would be giving up some of the discovery cap...
almost 3 years ago in Instana / Agent 3 Future consideration

Ability to customize messages displayed in the DWC

We would like the ability to customize the text of messages used in the DWC. Specifically, the message that says, "User is not included in any role, please ask your administrator to include user to roles." We would like to direct users to an inter...
6 months ago in Workload Automation 1 Not under consideration

The Job run history query on DWC monitor workload/jobs panel is not sorted DWC.

The users find it very difficult to search and compare historical runs of a certain job. The actual start date and time on the list are not in order. Can the query have an Order by Actual Start ASC statement to have the result in ascending order
6 months ago in Workload Automation 0 Under review