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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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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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API token for configuration only

Currently - when creating an API token, this token allows full access to monitoring data, including traces and potentially user data. Considering that API tokens are widely used in automation use cases and CI/CD pipelines it should be possible, if...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Access Control 1 Not under consideration

Putting module EQQSSCNMx above the line

Due to administrative rules we are forced to run multiple IWSz Systems in parallel on one SYSPLEX. When migrating IWSz we are using BUILDSSX REBUILD and SSCMNAME TEMPORARY to avoid IPLs. After migration we are restarting IWSz with SSCMNAME PERMANE...
almost 4 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

One Tracker per LPAR serve all Controller

Due to administrative rules we are forced to run multiple IWSz Systems in parallel on one SYSPLEX. So we have to start tracker STCs for each of our multiple IWSz controllers on every system of the SYSPLEX. As the tracker STCs all do the same work ...
almost 4 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

Impact nci_import/nci_export: improve handling of command line format errors

nci_import and nci_export do not handle command line parameter mistakes properly. And the --help function is misleading regarding the sequence of parameters: The position of "OPTIONS" is not mentioned in the "Synopsis" *and* is listed after the ar...
over 3 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Planned for future release

Script output monitoring using Instana (similar to IBM APM)

IBM APM customers can currently run scripts and monitor the output using regexpressions and create alerts on certain conditions. Similar capability is required in Instana to run scripts periodically and process the output. Example: Run a simple sc...
7 months ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Future consideration

Implement multi-factor mechanisms (2FA+) for any authentication

Netcool Products, including Omnibus WebGui as well any IBM tool must adhere and comply to the Security and policy standards and ITSS advises and requests that 2FA is enable for all products
over 3 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 2 Not under consideration

Custom time period at top of page to apply to all widgets on page

I’d like the ability to add a custom date range on the top of a page (Dashboards, regular VM/Group pages, etc) so it propagates to all the widgets/graphs – similar to how the limited selections do now. When using Turbo to evaluate utilization or r...
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 1 Not under consideration

Zabbix v6.2 integration (scripts) for on-prem Netcool Message Bus probe (webhook)

Cloudpak currently provides the ability to generate scripts to run on the Zabbix admin server - which include the CEM webhook URL etc where Zabbix would then POST events to (https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/noi/1.6.1?topic=SSTPTP_1.6.1/com.ibm.netcool_...
about 1 year ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

API - Kubernetes Pod Memory/CPU Usage

The catalog API call for kubernetes pod metrics (/api/infrastructure-monitoring/catalog/metrics/kubernetesPod) got me the following output: "metricId":"cpuRequests" "metricId":"memoryLimits" "metricId":"container_count" "metricId":"memoryRe...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Backend Enablement 1 Future consideration

For HA workloads (consistent resize), allow Match Cores

Today Turbonomic matches utilization based on MHz. There are use cases for when teams would want to have all their vms have matching core counts. Please add functionality to match by core count for Consistent Resize capability.
about 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 0 Planned for future release

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