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PINNED Instana on OpenShift Route Flexibility
Hi, My customer has a question about Instana route definitions on OCP. Basically, they have an OCP console address like console-openshift-console.apps.ocpcluster.ibm.com. According to the document; - basedn URL should be like instana.apps.ocpclust...
PINNED Need documentation on how to uninstall Instana for K8 and Docker self hosted installation
We need documentation on how to uninstall Instana and the resources created during the installation of Instana on K8. These steps are helpful especially recovering from failed installation so that the customer could retry the steps.

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Infra metrics for IBM DB2warehouse monitoring

We have integrated IBM DB2warehouse production instance with instana and we are able to access the default dashboard with some metrics. We are exploring the available metrics to configure alerts, but unfortunately we don't see the required metrics...
about 1 month ago in Instana / DB2 0 Under review

Instana monitoring MQ can only filter on queues, not able to filter by a channel or topics and per client.

Instana monitoring MQ can only filter on queues, not able to filter by a channel or topics and per client.
3 months ago in Instana / MQ 0 Under review

Support auto scaling/increment of AIOPs component's PVC claim when current claim is 80% or more of current capacity of PVC storage and automatic End user notification about AIOPs health

We have observed one issue - the Netcool connector stopped processing new Events from ObjectServers. We founded out that pvc netcool-vct-netcool-conn- pvc was full, we extended it to 100mb from original 50mB. This has resolved the issue temporally...
about 2 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review

Grouping row in the alert list to support summarising custom view columns

Currently in latest AIOPs 4.5 version , we can added mapping for new custom field/s ( SiteId in our case ) in Netcool connector and and can add same in AIOPs alert view but like Resource , EntityTYpe , Sender column values for parent alert where W...
about 2 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review

Custom Report sharing

Today Reports that come with the product is shared amongst Tenants. When a user in a Tenant run a report, the report is run with that Tenants context in mind, and for example a Virtual Machine report displays the VMs the Tenant has access to, and ...
about 2 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review

Raw Netflow reporting scalability improvements

My customer experienced a reporting limitation when attempting to view raw Netflow data for a FlowPro Device (over any timespan).
about 2 months ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) 0 Under review

User role impactOpViewUser should not allow editing and deleting Operator Views

An explicit 'user' role should not allow 'admin' tasks such as editing and deleting components that are relevant to other users. However, this is the case with the Impact role impactOpViewUser. Users with this role are allowed to edit and delete a...
5 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review

Documentation around Openshift Operator management

Current Documentation does not cover managment of Subscriptions Install Plans Managing upgrades via Subscriptions and Managing the Operator deployment eg offline repo extra config eg CPU limits or custom build of operator to support hardend build.
about 2 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Documentation 0 Under review

For the Power systems, need local agent in VIOS similar to what others are certified for in https://community.ibm.com/community/user/power/viewdocument/vios-recognized-list

Local agent installations on the VIOS on Power Servers will help to fetch metrices at more granular level than the minimum 5m offered by the HMC. After discussion with Power sales team, this remains one of the main bottleneck to position Instana a...
about 2 months ago in Instana / IBM Power / Sensor 0 Under review

Data source encryption with AES

The current AES Encryption implementation in OMNIbus and WebGUI only allows passwords up to 30 characters long whether encrypted or un-encrypted. If you encrypt a password longer than 16 chars using ncw_aes_crypt script, the encrypted string becom...
about 2 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review