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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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Add support for Ed25519 SSH keys in Discovery Credentials.

Add support for using Ed25519 SSH keys with Discovery Credentials using pki authentication.
over 4 years ago in Tivoli Application Dependency Discovery Manager 0 Delivered

Check disk space of pods before attempting instrumentation

Check disk space of pods before attempting instrumentation. Instana injects a 12 MB jar file in the /tmp folder if pods in the OCP cluster. If the pods do not have enough space, then the pods may be evicted. By checking if there is enough space be...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Agent 0 Delivered

Ability to resize Azure App Service Plans

Our app service plan environment is extremely overprovisioned, similar to our Virtual Machines, disks, and databases because of the ease of resizing through azure portal. Some of these plans cost a significant amount of money, and they are seeing ...
about 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud PaaS & DBaaS 5 Delivered

support Zhone vendor (EMS ZMS) , Device/NE model MXK-F 1421

we appreciate to have this device is supported in ITNM for both device structure and discovery
almost 3 years ago in Tivoli Network Manager 1 Delivered

User defined Business App (ATD) should have more application components: Namespace, Workload Controllers, Clusters

AppDev personas want to interact with Turbo from their perspective: their application. The definition of this application is a hybrid set of services that come together to form a composite app. This application is frequently made up of hybrid set ...
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / APM & Applications & Databases 0 Delivered

install LWA with a local system user that will not requires any password

Modify the install process for a LWA so it reqires no password to be input or the LWA can just interact with the Local System Account TS005072883
over 3 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Delivered

Recalculate smart alert baseline via API

We're managing multiple instana backends via API configuration. This works for many configuration items. However it doesn't work for Smart Alerts with a daily or weakly seasonality. Seasonality differs per system. While it is possible to recalcula...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Alert 2 Delivered

What happened to Filters?

Our cluster was running 8.7.5 release and filters worked like a charm in Target Configuration. I could filter by Hypervisor Type and other parameters. Since we upgraded to 8.8.3 release, the only filter criteria available is Account/Subscription S...
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 1 Delivered

Restrict access to Heap Dumps

Currently everyone who has access to a JVM infrastructure perspective in Instana can also create a heap dump from there. Heap dumps might contain sensitive information. This access to the heap dump implies a major security and compliance issue for...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Access Control 2 Delivered

Missing condition "OR" while configuring thresholds

Dear colleagues, In Instana we miss condition "OR" while configuring thresholds. Our customer uses it in Tivoli Monitoring situations. Customer seeks for transition to Instana, so its implementation is highly demanded or at least any analog. Below...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Common 2 Delivered