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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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Request support for Oracle Fusion Middleware Versions - 12.2.1.2 and 12.2.1.4

Request to support Oracle Fusion Middleware 12.2.1.2 and 12.2.1.4 Currently tracing shows "Source not monitored by Instana" for 80% of the SOAP calls.
about 2 years ago in Instana / Java 3 Future consideration

Add Windows Active Directory group (Security Group) to Instana

As per support case #27832, We asked to add AD group to instana to provide the permission to groups, but that feature is not available it seems, please check to add AD group for providing permissions.
about 2 years ago in Instana / Access Control 3 Not under consideration

support for aws china region and azure china region

csm is proposing Turbonomic to customer MCDONALDS-CN together with seller and tech sales team. customer is satisfied with the POC result against their VMware and K8S environment, wish Turbonomic can support their public cloud providers(Azure China...
about 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud IaaS 3 Future consideration

Support OpenSearch as Self-Hosted datastore

As an user of the Self Hosted Instana Backend/Datastore, it would be beneficial to be able to replace ElasticSearch with OpenSerach (Interpropability of ES and OS). OpenSearch is available as a managed service on AWS or as K8s operator (https://gi...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Self Hosted 3 Not under consideration

Add alerting condition / Request Impact "Total Calls in Alert Scope" to smart alerts

Using smart alerts in Instana, we are currently able to define the absolute number of requests Impacted within the alerting condition (time threshold). See attachment 01 It is however in most cases much more relevant to set up a threshold for a to...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Alert 1 Not under consideration

Sorting option for CNEA-policies (e.g. suggested) in NOI 1.6.5

Currently it is not possible to sort by the different columns in the policies (Created by analytics/Suggested/Archived). Especially with a large number of policies, this is absolutely necessary.Our Environment: NOI Version 1.6.5
about 2 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Planned for future release

Disable normal user login / automatically purge users from User DB

Customer wants to enable SSO. When they do this, they want to make sure that existing Instana users can no longer login with they email/password, and that new users can no longer create regular logins (only login via SSO).Once the user is deleted ...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Access Control 3 Functionality already exists

need the driver download link with following VTMOS:- V-CISCO T- AVG M -4331 OS- 16.09.05

Hello Team, We need the driver download link with following VTMOS:- V-CISCO T- AVG M -4331 OS- 16.09.05
about 2 years ago in Tivoli Netcool Configuration Manager 2 Functionality already exists

Make action script population context aware

Turbonomic reads an existing manifest to determine where to make an action script visible when orchestrating an action. However, it only considers the phase and does not consider the entity being orchestrated. That means you can have an action scr...
about 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Custom Workflows 1 Not under consideration

Add a Native Dashboard to control the PODS and Deployments - Has the ability to add Nodes and Control the Kubernetes World

Customers and Teachnical (IBM Employees) would have a GUI interface to manage Kubernetes and not be restricted to command line only - https://kubernetes.io/docs/tasks/access-application-cluster/web-ui-dashboard/
about 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 0 Functionality already exists