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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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JVM: Add special group permission which would enable/disable users to run Get Thread Dump and Get Heap Dump

Hello, Currently, any user that can view infrastructure map and particular JVM (Host -> process -> JVM) can run Get Thread Dump and Get Heap Dump. This might cause problems in production environment if used irresponsible (it might cause slow...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Java 0 Delivered

Instana Self-Hosted make ports 8080 and 8081 configureable

Customer cannot use Instana onPrem environment as onPrem Instana requires 8080 and 8081 ports and doesn't allow to change the ports during installation. There is a software installed on all servers in customer environment as per policy of the cust...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Self Hosted 5 Delivered

Instana tracing supporting envoy >= 1.22

We want to upgrade to envoy 1.22 but as of yet instana does not provide tracing for this version. https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=technologies-envoy-distributed-tracing-binaries#envoy-115-and-later
about 2 years ago in Instana / C / Team Proxies / Tracing 1 Delivered

Probable Cause Calculation

Need a telecom grade probable cause calculation. The current probable cause calculation based on keyword and probable cause count doesn't work for the project, as our alarm summary can't be based on NLP, the summary is very specific to telecom eve...
over 1 year ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Delivered

Need the ability to threshold and Event on string values

Within Instana, I can use the Dynamic Focus Query to limit what I threshold on if something is an entity. But, there are many times where customers want to Event and alert on specific string values where the fields are not entities. For example, t...
9 months ago in Instana / Alert 1 Delivered

NCM Driver Support for Nokia 7250 IXR-e

Currently there is no driver available for Nokia 7250 IXR series https://www.al-enterprise.com/-/media/assets/internet/documents/ale-hybridpol-nokia-7250-ixr-e-interconnect-routers-datasheet-en.pdf . Would like to have a driver available for this ...
over 1 year ago in Tivoli Netcool Configuration Manager 0 Delivered

re-occurring maintenance window

It appears the only way to set maintenance windows (to suppress alerts) is to setup a maintenance window but it only allows specific dates and times. Our maintenance windows are set by day of week and time (regardless of specific date). For exampl...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Alert 4 Delivered

ITSM: Service Now change request integration for databases

Turbonomic doesn't provide integration with Service Now change management with respect to Azure Database types such as SQL. The current integration is limited to VM instance types. In scoping to a single Azure SQL database and setting up associate...
about 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Custom Workflows 4 Delivered

Sensor for Redhat RHEV

Sensor for the discovery of 'Red Hat Virtualization' RHV - formerly known as RHEV (RHEV-H, RHEV-M).
almost 7 years ago in Tivoli Application Dependency Discovery Manager 1 Delivered

Health Monitoring of Turbonomic

Would like to have better visibility into the health states of the Turbonomic appliance itself. Pod statuses, excessive restarts, directories filling, and a way to ticket on these events through SNMP or another method.
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / General/Other 1 Delivered