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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 Distribute the Instana kubectl plugin with Krew
Krew is a popular open source plugin manager for the kubectl command-line tool maintained by the Kubernetes SIG CLI community. The tool helps to discover, install, and update kubectl plugins by offering a centralised plugin repository. The usage o...

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ITNM poller - convert HEX to Decimal output form snmp get request

With snmp get, Broacade swith reports data in HEX format:SNMPv2-SMI::experimental.94.4.5.1.6.16.0.136.148.113.103.201.120.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.132 = Hex-STRING: 00 00 00 00 04 57 2F 5C If the same data is gathering by ITNM poller would be nice to conve...
about 4 years ago in Tivoli Network Manager 0 Delivered

Add suppoer for RabbitMQ 3.9 and 3.10 since 3.8 reaches end of extended support on 31 July 2022!

As you can see here https://www.rabbitmq.com/versions.html RabbitMQ 3.8 is going out of extended support on 31 July 2022 so I expect Instana to support version 3.9 in order to stay compliant with the valid Versions of RabbitMQ. I also expect Insta...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Sensor 1 Delivered

Support Mirroring Artifactory to Artifactory instances

You are able to reach artifactory remote shared but not able to reach remote storage (having 404 only on XML). You are able to download .pom, featureXML but cannot dosload maven-metadata.XML @support can you have a look at it ? JFROG support is al...
about 2 years ago in Instana / SRE 1 Delivered

Support of Data Leak Protection for Logging

In regards of the incident, ticket : https://instana.zendesk.com/agent/tickets/24625 ouiSNCF is asking for the support of a DLP Data Leak Prtotection for Logging.
about 2 years ago in Instana / Logging 1 Delivered

ITNM: support AddNode.pl without running full discovery first

the ability to run AddNode.pl without having to run a full discovery after a restart of ncp_disco. Currently, if there is a restart of ncp_disco.We will not able to run AddNode.pl. We are currently automated the discovery using addNode.pl.So, the ...
about 4 years ago in Tivoli Network Manager 1 Delivered

Display USRLEV setting in IWS via an operator command

With the introduction of Continuous Delivery, the USRLEV parameter can potentially be changed with new maintenance release roll-outs. To ensure that we are able to verify the USRLEV on each sysplex, we would like to have the option of displaying t...
over 6 years ago in Workload Automation 2 Delivered

Ability to group TDWC filters for jobs or jobstreams

The ability to group job or jobstream filters would be great help. Our monitoring team work with 180+ filters for jobs alone. Navigating this list is time consuming and cumbersome. Some are using the bookmark feature and then using sub folders wit...
over 8 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Delivered

RBAC UI - Ability to 'Select All' when selecting Product Areas, k8s etc

As an Instana administrator, I would like the ability to 'Select All' before or after filtering when setting up Groups so that I easily set up Groups with access to a large number of product areas. (Currently it is possible to filter but then you ...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Access Control 0 Delivered

Add Statsd Metric to TOP List

Trying to add Stasd metric in custom dashboard. I am able to find these set of metrics under Infrastructure and platforms for time series widget but unable to find it for Top List
about 2 years ago in Instana 2 Delivered

Cloud Automation Manager needs to have terraform Instance output variables API endpoint

CMSIBM-263 Instance output variables API endpointAs a consumer of the iCAM API, I need an endpoint to get the output variables and their values from the Terraform state for a particular deployed instance as an optimization over downloading the who...
over 4 years ago in Cloud Pak for Multicloud Management Ideas 0 Delivered