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PINNED Self hosted backed on Docker, Support for RHEL 9.x
According to support matrix RHEL 9.x is not supported for self hosted backed installations. However vast majority of customers are using RHEL 9.x RHEL 9.x OS support required for Instana self hosted backend
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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PHP CLI Support Configuration in Instana-Agent

As an Instana user, I would like to have PHP CLI support configuration in the instana-agent, so that the PHP sensor always initializes without needing to rely on a running php-fpm process for auto-detection. This would be especially useful when tr...
about 1 year ago in Instana / PHP 1 Not under consideration

Multi-Tenancy to support multiple customers with one CP4MCM Instance

Requirements: Ability to execute / trigger tasks / actions via (e.g. Ansible, etc. ) across multiple customers environments and received the results from multiple customers and display them on the CP4MCM Ability to provide the necessary RBAC struc...
over 4 years ago in Cloud Pak for Multicloud Management Ideas 3 Future consideration

Increase app_data_short_term max. value

Our company is working with banks as customers. For compliance reasons we have to store all traces,logs,... for at least 3 Months. In you documentation there is a config attribute called "app_data_short_term". Your support told me the max. value i...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Application perspectives 1 Not under consideration

ITNM Discovery Improvement for FULL And PARTIAL

Can we have Dual discovery or much controlled and customised discovery modes: main aim is to reduce long discovery times here. For Ex. what we are looking for is described below: Let us say we have seed based control not using scope based: [two se...
about 3 years ago in Tivoli Network Manager 2 Future consideration

Topology, Runbooks and CNEA Databases in Hybrid DR setup should be replicated automatically

Currently Automatic Data Replication is only supported in Full Cloud statck Deployment of Event Manager in Watson AIOPS, but In Hybrid Implementation still requires manual effort to back and restore process to sync two Clusters. Since fundamentall...
about 1 year ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

Restricted read-only permissions for non-technical users of custom dashboards

As an Instana admin configuring access to non-technical users who use Instana only to view custom dashboards, I want to ensure that such users can only view specific custom dashboards and not be able to: Create new custom dashboards Duplicate exis...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Access Control 1 Future consideration

Dedicated Juniper and Huawei telnet agents to collect and process OSPF data

Our customer have a need for specific Juniper and Huawei OSPF disco agents, because right now OSPF data for this vendors collected not fully (for example missing connections if OSPF protocol configured on a subinterface rather then on interface).
about 3 years ago in Tivoli Network Manager 1 Not under consideration

The ability to add a custom date range on the top of a page so it propagates to all the graphs – like the limited default selections do now.

Ability to view data within a specific scope.
about 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Reporting 1 Functionality already exists

The ability to download a list of group members and a 'download page' option so that all data is easily exportable

This will be useful for the client when needing to export data for other members in the organization to view.
about 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 0 Planned for future release

Turbonomic may not properly display costs when using a non USD currency

When a currency is changed from USD, costs may not be properly displayed in charts other than Top Accounts. For instance, the cost IS displayed properly for Yen, but NOT displayed properly for the Norwegian Krone
about 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 0 Is a defect