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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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Platforum pHMC needs to collect vNIC information from HMC for each Host

When connecting a Power HMC to Instana it is currently gathering information about "Virtual Ehternet Adapters (SEA)" and "SR-IOV Local Ports". A lot of customer are using the vNIC functionality with is another type of network adapter. This needs t...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Agent / Sensor 1 Delivered

Monitoring rootless Podman process

Hello, We would like to monitor our rootless podman process Best Regards
over 1 year ago in Instana / Sensor 8 Delivered

Reports to be Accessed for NonCalculated Periods

End-users who do not have admin access should be able to access the reports even for closed time-periods otherwise the reports might not be helpful to them and each time an admin would have to intervene to keep changing the time-periods.
over 1 year ago in Apptio / Apptio Costing 0 Delivered

Make Component discovery of fabric extender consistent

For Cisco Nexus Fabric extenders(FEX) attached to Nexus N9K switches (even with recent firmware), sometimes fabric extender elements were not discovered and the chassis element was not discovered. on other hosts, only the chassis element but no fa...
almost 2 years ago in Tivoli Network Manager 0 Delivered

Allow empty column in WebGUI View for UTC fields with value 0

This RFE was suggested since we could not find a solution for case TS011100966. We have added an UTC field to alerts.status, which remains empty most of the time (i.e., equal to 0). When displaying this column in Event Viewer, the value 0 is conve...
over 2 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 1 Delivered

Integration - Cisco NSO (NetCONF)

I propose the addition of NetCONF protocol support within Rapid Network Automation. This enhancement has been requested by several telecommunications and large enterprise prospects. Implementing NetCONF support will enable the integration with net...
9 months ago in Rapid Infrastructure Automation 2 Delivered

Include the cross-domain topology in the ncp_dla exported file

though the NCIM have cross-domain connections populated using cross-domain stitching. The ncp_dla does not fetch the cross-domain topology in the exported file. the cross-domain topology export is not implemented in ncp_dla.
over 1 year ago in Tivoli Network Manager 1 Delivered

enable the ingestion of Azure SQL Managed Instances

Turbonomic currently ingests some Azure SQL PaaS, but not all. SQL Managed Instances are a class that should be included.

Envoy proxy default address/port and sensor configuration

Preface: Currently monitoring envoy proxy metrics appears to REQUIRE setting the --admin-address-path command line flag. https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=technologies-monitoring-envoy-proxy#configuration Two ideas: S...
over 2 years ago in Instana / C / Team Proxies 2 Delivered

Problem to discover Serial Number, Manufacturer and vendor parameters for Tiesse devices

I'm trying to find the serial number, manifacture and vendor parameters of the Tiesse devices. I built the ad hoc agent but even if it does not give an error it does not extract the desired values.
almost 3 years ago in Tivoli Network Manager 4 Delivered