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PINNED Instana Backend on ARM
Some customer have the request to install Instana backend on their Server which is using the ARM architecture CPU.
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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Run Scripts ( Bash / Python etc.,)

From agent to execute scripts and feed the data to Instana for custom alerts and metrics.
9 months ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 0 Planned for future release

Option to truncate context field in Netcool SCOM probe

When the context attribute of the alarm object SCOM sends to the SCOM probe is very large, the SCOM probe crashes. The problem can be solved when the probe truncates the context field (and all related context_xxx fields) to a certain number of byt...
over 1 year ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 2 Planned for future release

Probe to connect to mailbox using Graph API

We have a requirement to monitor the mailbox and generate the alert. As per the current Probe functionality it only supports Microsoft EWS API to connect to mailbox. Barclays does not support EWS any more, it only supports Graph API. Also EWS is g...
6 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Planned for future release

Regarding the price display for "Aurora Standard" and "Aurora I/O-Optimized"

Aurora has multiple prices even for the same instance type. However, in the current Turbonomic UI, it's unclear which price is being displayed. Is it possible to make this clear? ------------------------------------------------------------ https:/...
about 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud PaaS & DBaaS 0 Planned for future release

Support for Openshift Virt VM provisioning in self-service catalogue

Our customer is using MCMP to self-service deploy VMs in both VMware and Red Hat Virtualization. Now as Red Hat is moving to Openshift Virt they are asking for the functionality to self-service deploy VMs in Openshift Virt
3 months ago in Cloud Pak for Multicloud Management Ideas 1 Planned for future release

Need instana support for tracing of SAP MES (base on NetWeaver)

Background: CATL(www.catl.com) has ranked first in global power battery usage for 7 consecutive years, with Y23 Rev of over CNY 400 billion and net profit of over CNY 40 billion. It is an absolute industry leader and has an influential power on th...
3 months ago in Instana / Agent 1 Planned for future release

'Current Transfers' does not match time span

For MFT, if you change the time span on the 'IBM MQ MFT Coordination Queue Manager' dashboard the 'Transfer Statistics' chart is updated with the new time span. For the 'Current Transfers' table this does not happen, and it will only show the tran...
6 months ago in Instana / MQ / Sensor 0 Planned for future release

add a group-searchfilter for the external ldap

In a Full-Cloud installation of NOI 1.6.5 running on Openshift the normal ldap-config doesn't support spaces, therefor we added an external-ldap over the webgui-startup-configmap. In this configmap it is not possible to configure group-searchfilte...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Planned for future release

Multiple Resource Graph should have 3 day drop down range - in between Last 24 Hours and Last 7 Days

So Turbo keeps data per hour for the last 72 hours - then rolls it up. So it's a VERY USEFUL graph to look back at the last 3 days because it's the maximum duration to see data by the hour. The customer is looking at graphs for hours a day - and u...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 4 Planned for future release

Import DRS Virtual Machine Options settings

Today, Turbo imports DRS affinity and anti-affinity rules. These rules help customers keep VMs together, apart, or only on certain hosts. Some customers (Facebook, NBC) use DRS's Virtual Machine Options to override DRS automation. This settings ar...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 1 Planned for future release