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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?
PINNED Instana Backend on ARM
Some customer have the request to install Instana backend on their Server which is using the ARM architecture CPU.

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A new JBoss 7 Sensor dicovery

The current JBoss7 discovery in a managed domain, when an environment is discovered for the first time, it expected to start with the discovery of a host, which acts as a JBoss domain controller, and then it is possible to run a discovery of domai...
over 5 years ago in Tivoli Application Dependency Discovery Manager 3 Delivered

Couchbase DB support (couchbase client lib) for Nodejs APPs

It is a big disappointment that Nodejs Apps are not monitored for couchbase DB connections. Same is available for .NetCore . Can we please work on this. I am pretty sure it may not be big change , for us it is a blocker to product we are using cou...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Node 5 Delivered

Containerised distributed Dynamic Agent support for Remote Gateways

Installations of IWS/d 9.X & 10.1 in a virtualised or physcal infrastructure currently supports remote GW for Dynamic Agents (see link below). Containerised Dynamic agents do not support this configuration as the GW is hard coded to localhost....
over 1 year ago in Workload Automation 1 Delivered

Customer (PNC) requests that we create a custom script to get container resize actions data.

Very useful for the capacity team to show the container savings to the application owners.
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM 0 Delivered

Filter unwanted Properties from the Topology Resource Details

Hello Team, We are looking to filter out some of the Properties in the Resource Details in Topology Viewer. Some of these Properties are not relevant to our End users and are considered noise when troubleshooting for an Event. For example, "entity...
over 1 year ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Delivered

SmartModel Driver for Cisco Nexus switches to add support for NXOS 8.* and 9.*

Current SmartModel driver only supports older OS releases
almost 3 years ago in Tivoli Netcool Configuration Manager 1 Delivered

TNCM - Autodiscovery with multiple commands for VTMOS on devices that need of more that one command to do it

ITNCM - autodiscovery with multiple commands for VTMOS on devices that need of more that one command to do it System: Tivoli Netcool Configuration Manager Actor: Customer/User needing new feature We have on TNCM the autodiscovery function t...
almost 3 years ago in Tivoli Netcool Configuration Manager 0 Delivered

Add tags to k8s-sensor

We would like to add tags to the new k8s-sensor in the same way we add tags to Instana agents. In our case we are using your Helm chart to deploy Instana in kubernetes clusters and we are using the k8s-sensor: https://github.com/instana/helm-chart...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Kubernetes 1 Delivered

IBM Observability by Instana

Hello, I want to submit a new idea (cosmectic idea) about for the field "age". We have only a format with hours but we are solliciting to have a new format with "days_hours_minutes" instead.For the moment, minutes are troncated. So 1 hour and 43 m...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities / Kubernetes 5 Delivered

Secure POwershell setting to ignore certificate warnings

Have a gateway scoped property in collation.properties that allows SSL powershell discovery to ignore the CN, the CA and Revocation checks to allow self-signed certificates. e.g. properties like com.collation.discover.powershell.*.skipca=truecom.c...
almost 6 years ago in Tivoli Application Dependency Discovery Manager 1 Delivered