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NCIM support for MS SQL Server

We are primarily an MS SQL DB shop. We have a lot of support of This DB not very much support of DB2 especially in distributed platforms. Using MS SQL would be extremely beneficial.
8 months ago in Tivoli Network Manager 0 Planned for future release

Provide initial REST API Token without going to UI to support seemless automation

Customers want to setup and configure Instana Backend and the tenant units in an fully automated way with no/minimal manual intervention. Many of the configuration tasks (like e.g. configure RBAC etc.) can only done with Instana REST API ( https:/...
9 months ago in Instana / Self Hosted 1 Not under consideration

Instana run under a non-root after installation (Standard Edition)

Customer is expecting that all Instana processes should run under a non-root user after issuing stanctl up command. We were advice (by an Instana site reliability engineer) to do the following and if would solve the problem but it did not: copy /r...
6 months ago in Instana / Self Hosted 1 Functionality already exists

Discover devices with DHCP configuration

Hi Team, Devices with DHCP configurations pose challenges for availability monitoring due to their dynamic IP addresses. Without a mechanism to track these devices effectively, UFM may lose visibility or fail to maintain consistent monitoring when...
4 months ago in Tivoli Network Manager 0 Needs more information

Entity name without prefix and should be usable in relationship building in ASM

Entity name without prefix and should be usable in relationship building in ASM
5 months ago in Tivoli Network Manager 1 Not under consideration

Need to fix Agent download process for air-gapped customers

This is related to support case TS018328082 The issue is with Standard Edition when working with air-gapped customers. The behavior was different with the Docker backend. But, with standard edition, here is what happens. The customers have access ...
9 months ago in Instana / Self Hosted 0 Under review

A new ITNM Agent for vendor AKCP to do SNMP based discovery of all sensors supported by site device and build Site to Sensor Topology

Saudi Aramco want to build the end to end topology of the infra monitoring network and corresponding location hierarchy y starting from top level location Division , section , Area , Site and various sensors in each site where each site has a AKCP...
3 months ago in Tivoli Network Manager 0

Provide an Rest API to add, delete and enrich devices, interface and IP objects.

In our practice we have the need to Add (discover) new devices in an adhoc manner. Additionally, we also need to remove devices that are in the process of upgrades or RMA actions. Once devices are in ITNM we also have a need to manage meta data in...
8 months ago in Tivoli Network Manager 0 Future consideration

ITNM polls end devices using multiple SNMP credentials to monitor their subcomponents effectively.

We have Customer Premises Equipment (CPEs) with multiple parts, such as firewalls and routers, that are monitored for their availability using ITNM's SNMP polling feature. Some newer models of these CPEs use NATed IPs, meaning their parts can only...
3 months ago in Tivoli Network Manager 2 Future consideration

Need improved prereq checking for Standard Edition

There are a number of common problems that we've seen with customer installs where better prereq checking could have prevented an installation failure. We would like to see the prereq checker improved to check for additional prereqs. The following...
3 months ago in Instana / Self Hosted 3 Under review