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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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"number of restarts" as timeseries metric for K8s sensor

The priority for The customer is to get rid of prometheus  and move those infra structure related alarms to Instana. One popular subset / category is alert/alarm when PODs are restarting to avoid potential transnational issues.Example if POD is re...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Kubernetes 0 Planned for future release

conman to authenticate users through WAS/WLP and retrieve LDAP group to user information and authorize using group in assigni

DWC and composer are able to authenticate LDAP users and authorize using LDAP groups and assign security roles accordingly, but conman doesn't authenticate using LDAP hence can't authorize using LDAP groups and assign security roles. Separate ACLs...
over 2 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Planned for future release

JSON functions for rules file processing

The recently published OMNIbus 8.1.0 FP24 containes a new set of JSON processing ObjectServer SQL functions named json_prop_get, json_prop_set, and json_prop_dedup. This is great news! We'd highly appreciate having similar functions available in r...
over 2 years ago in Cloud Pak for Watson AIOps 1 Future consideration

Check Java version in prerequisite scanner

We recently updated one of our customers to ITNM FixPack 10. During preparation for the change, we checked the system requirements using the prerequisite scanner. Unfortunately, the prereq checker doesn't seem to check for the java version require...
over 2 years ago in Tivoli Network Manager 3 Not under consideration

Monitoring Module to support Nutanix

MUFG are investing heavily in Nutanix and need a solution to monitor it. Our competition, Applications Manager from ManageEngine, provide this function today.
over 2 years ago in Cloud Pak for Multicloud Management Ideas 0 Future consideration

Need Message Bus probe using webhook to authenticate client

Currently we have probe connecting to an endpoint as a secure client. But here, we want enable/start messagebus probe as server enabling secure webhook endpoint for clients to connect and post the JSON formatted data on the webhook endpoint.
over 2 years ago in Cloud Pak for Watson AIOps 0 Not under consideration

ITM Tag files for ILMT

US Customs and Border Protection uses ILMT to gather version information in use to ensure they are current. Currently, there are no tag files for the ITM v6 infrastructure components and some of the base monitoring agents (such as HMC). The reques...
over 2 years ago in ITM/IBM APM 0 Planned for future release

Endpoint as Token in Messagebusprobe

We read events from an kafkaserver, which are stored in several topics. The problem is the came from differnet networks and therefore the handling is also different because the inventory is different. It is for me not understandable that the Topic...
over 2 years ago in Cloud Pak for Watson AIOps 0 Not under consideration

Need to be able to configure non-standard ports for CP4MCM external communications

I was talking to TELUS regarding an upcoming POC. They have a requirement that you can't open standard ports for communications between firewall zone. They have requested that CP4MCM allow for the configuration of alternative ports. They indicated...
over 2 years ago in Cloud Pak for Multicloud Management Ideas 0 Not under consideration

Require support for OAuth in Message Bus Probe when connecting to Azure

Support for Azure Secure Webhooks leveraging OAuth2 security with the Netcool Message Bus Probe. System:Integration of Message Bus with AzureActor: User requires Secure Webhook integration with Message Bus As our clients adopt more Cloud-native en...
over 2 years ago in Cloud Pak for Watson AIOps 0 Future consideration