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PINNED Instana on OpenShift Route Flexibility
Hi, My customer has a question about Instana route definitions on OCP. Basically, they have an OCP console address like console-openshift-console.apps.ocpcluster.ibm.com. According to the document; - basedn URL should be like instana.apps.ocpclust...
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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Implement Custom Roles & RBAC Control via Entity/Tag

This would benefit all users of Turbonomic by allowing administrators to define custom roles, as well as the permissions applied to these roles either globally or by entity/tag and their respective child objects. This would enable application owne...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Authentication & Security 9 Future consideration

Read only access to ALL tasks in Netcool Impact

BOA is needing the ability to authorize a user to have visibility to all functions within Netcool Impact, but disallow edits/modifications. This has to be an ADMIN RO view in the WebGUI within a Group Role.
19 days ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 1 Under review

Request for support NGINX plus R32

We would like to request the addition of support for NGINX Plus R32 in the IBM Instana Observability platform. Based on the current documentation, the latest supported version of NGINX Plus is: NGINX Plus R31 for Glibc-based Linux and Alpine Linux
19 days ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Submitted

Please update SevOne to support monitoring of the most recent Java releases

Update the SevOne JMX monitoring capability to support updated versions of JAVA. When developers build poor JAVA code it will chew through resources assigned to the JVM until such a point until it crashes and goes into garbage collection. Where co...
about 1 month ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 0 Under review

Enable to exclude entities from built-in events by DFQ (Dynamic Focus Query)

Users cannot configure any conditions of built-in events. However in some cases, built-in event could be opened even though it is not harmful. Users would be happy if you can exclude entities from built-in events by using (single or sometimes mult...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Alert 1 Not under consideration

Get skupper-router in the SaaS product to use a valid cert signed by a public CA for TLS transport during token exchange with on-prem appliance

Token exchange is failing through our transparent Internet proxies because an untrusted internal CA certificate from the skupper-router is being used for both TLS transport and mTLS. The untrusted cert is causing the connection to be reset by the ...
2 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / SaaS 0 Under review

Instana monitoring agent for IBM Datapower physical appliance

Currently IBM Datapower monitoring is available only for below setup 1. DataPower in a virtual machine2. DataPower in a Kubernetes cluster3. DataPower in a Docker container But it is not available for IBM Datapower physical appliance setup. Many c...
7 months ago in Instana / Agent / Sensor 0 Planned for future release

Add on new basic messaging protocol "MQTT" to NMS.

IOT is growing in the IT infrastructure monitoring and the end customer will hope he can consolidation monitor over all. MQTT is growing to IOT standard protocol and the other brands NMS have been added MQTT in their protocol. For example: Zabbix....
10 months ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 2 Future consideration

Custom Agent installation path

This request is related to a missing option that allows to define a custom path for agent installation on both Windows and Linux. The need is to install the agent in a folder other than the default folder, for security compliance reasons.
4 months ago in Instana / Agent 1 Under review

Add a way to be able quick filter NetFlow widget in DI

Not every user is comfortable with editing a widget to create a filter for a Flow widget. Would be great if there was a way to create a quick filter from the main report. For example, for view is Top Applications; provide a way to filter applicati...
6 months ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) 5 Planned for future release