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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

Add COBOL tracing on distributed environments

The idea is to Add COBOL tracing on distributed(Linux/Windows) environments. Background: There are still many customers running critical COBOL applications, and monitoring these applications are vital. Currently, there are no Otel SDK/APIs for COB...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Tracing 9 Future consideration

Request for Native Support for PHP Applications on Azure App Service

Dear Instana Team, We would like to request native support for Azure App Service running PHP applications. Our current workaround involves installing the Instana agent in the startup script as a Linux agent. This approach is not convenient for our...
10 months ago in Instana / PHP / Tracing 1 Planned for future release

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
4 months ago in Tivoli Network Manager 1 Not under consideration

Feature to filter HTTP calls

Customer needs a way to disable some HTTP calls to be detected, for example filter the calls that contains a specific string in the path
2 months ago in Instana / Tracing 0

Support for FrankenPHP

FrankenPHP, a PHP server built on top of Caddy, was recently adopted by the PHP Foundation (see https://les-tilleuls.coop/en/blog/frankenphp-is-now-officially-supported-by-the-php-foundation and https://github.com/php/frankenphp), and it can be us...
2 months ago in Instana / PHP / Tracing 0 Future consideration

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...
2 months ago in Tivoli Network Manager 0

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...
2 months ago in Tivoli Network Manager 2 Under review

Tracing: Ensure 365-Day Retention for Critical or Viewed Traces and Calls

Overview: Our current Instana environment does not reliably persist traces and calls beyond the default 7-day retention period. According to documentation, when a trace meets specific conditions—such as being viewed or containing critical errors—i...
7 months ago in Instana / Tracing 1 Future consideration

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