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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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Enable Object Rules for Object Groups

Presently, Sev1 provides the functionality to activate Object Rules solely within designated Device groups or specific device models. In line with our aspirations, the enhancement we seek to implement would empower the Sev1 administrative team wit...
11 months ago in SevOne / Configuration and Administration 1 Planned for future release

Display 'connected to' details against the physical interface members of a LAG

The display of interface details of an bundled interface (LAG) the 'connected to' information is not available on the physical interface members. This would show interface connection in more details than only on the aggregated entity
11 months ago in Tivoli Network Manager 1 Not under consideration

Alerting based on content of logs

Some erroneous calls might be considered OK based on the logs of that call, so with the new feature we should be able to alert only when specific logs appear and also exclude some logs from generating an alert. This way the client could reduce the...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Logging 0 Planned for future release

Custom Dashboard editing permission based on groups

Permission for team members based on user groups for editing custom dashboards. Business Use CaseCustomer have teams working 24x7 and in case if an on-shift person wants to edit the dashboards they need to explicitly grant permission to edit.They ...
over 3 years ago in Instana / Access Control / Infrastructure 1 Future consideration

Save Filter, Group and Facet settings in Analytics, like Infrastructure saved filters

Analytics is great, however is a burden to repeat the filter/group criterias, and sometimes also the facets. I know, I could get the shortlink to the panel, but what happens if I miss the link ? Yes, redo everything from scratch. Please consider t...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Application perspectives 1 Future consideration

DWC: view more dependencies

In DWC 9.5 we want to see more levels of dependencies when clicking the Dependencies button. Currently we only see direct dependencies and it is not enough. Ideally, there would be an option to choose how many levels of dependencies we want to see...
about 3 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

TSA takeover by force sequence change request

TSA timeout occurred between DB2 servers (#1 Primary and #2 Secondary) , after this timeout #2 Secondary issued 'takeover by force' command to #1 Primary.Then, #2 became Primary and acknowledged #1 Primary was active (split brain) because the conn...
almost 5 years ago in Tivoli System Automation 4 Not under consideration

ITM Summarization and Pruning Agent should verify TEP Server connection at start-up

After start-up the S&P Agent does not verify the TEP Server connection until the first schedule execution time. Until that point the "TEPS Connectivity" attribute is indicated as "No" and generate a situation event until the first execution ha...
about 2 years ago in ITM/IBM APM 2 Not under consideration

Simplify ACL/SDOM management with IWS >9.5

Hello, Currently we use SDOM structure to limit our applicative manager to their application and to force norm usage. For exemple - For Job name: 3 characters for application code (CCX) 1 character for job type (one of these 3 letters XTM) 1 chara...
over 1 year ago in Workload Automation 9 Future consideration

Tellabs Probe to fetch alarms from EMS through Authentication

Tellabs Probe doesnt support Authentication (Username/Password) properties. Customer EMS allows to fetch alarms only based on credentials.
over 1 year ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration