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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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Integrate dynamic agents authentication with Kerberos

Enhance the dynamic agents authentication to integrate with the Kerberos protocol. The ticket given back by Kerberos should be stored and used later by TWS jobs to authenticate to external systems.
over 6 years ago in Workload Automation 2 Delivered

We would like Workload Automation to keep track of last time a user logged in.

We would like to audit user access and be able to ask users that have not logged into Workload Automation after some period of time if they still need access.
over 2 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Delivered

New TL1 collector for FiberHome NMS

ITNM has a default TL1 collectors which are using TL1 protocol to communicate to Huawei TL1 EMS. This collectors are not equipped to communicate to the FiberHome EMS as the TL1 command formats for the new FiberHome EMS model. Please see details of...
about 4 years ago in Tivoli Network Manager 3 Delivered

Single synthetic event to be generated on non-occurrence of events related to the seasonal event

We are looking at a load shedding scenario where multiple events are generated in case of power failure. We want all of these events to be suppressed whenever they occur at a particular time. This scenario is working as expected. However, if these...
over 2 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 1 Delivered

increasing the characters displayed on the UI for a string type column

For ITM SQL agent -- customized SQL part , number of characters displayed on the UI for a string type column is limited to 64, due to which messages > then 64 characters are truncated, due to this we are not able to monitor messages more then 6...
over 1 year ago in ITM/IBM APM 0 Delivered

Openshift kubelet monitoring using Prometheus

I'm looking for a way to monitor the Openshift Prometheus metrics, more specifically the metrics that are exposed by kubelet. kubelet exposes a metric called 'kubelet_volume_stats_available_bytes', but i can't find it in the list of metrics that t...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Kubernetes / Sensor 3 Delivered

Support apache http client 5.X

The apache http client version 5.x has now been released for 3 years and is meeting a large adoption as a replacement for the 4.x client. Instana should add support for this client.
over 1 year ago in Instana / Java 1 Delivered

ITM to monitor IBM RDQM MQ

We are using IBM MQ RDQM version 9.2.0.11 in our project and we need standard situations to monitor IBM MQ RDQM cluster (TS013070592) but we got the response from ITM IBM that ITCAM WebSphere MQ agent does not support RDQM monitoring. If you want ...
over 1 year ago in ITM/IBM APM 1 Delivered

PHP 8.2 support

PHP 8.2 was released on 8 December 2022. Instana only supports 8.1, see https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=technologies-monitoring-php#supported-versions
over 1 year ago in Instana / PHP 2 Delivered

Change operational principles of burned elements

The Customer uses substitution devices in critical infrastructure nodes in the event of a failure of the main devices. substituted devices use the same IP, but vary in the sysName and physical address. An additional requirement from the customer i...
over 4 years ago in Cloud Pak for Network Automation / Performance 1 Delivered