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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 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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Support hexstring datatype in ITNM event poll definitions or advanced polling

ITNM generic polls need to be able to report the values for common snmp datatypes, such as (especially) Hex-STRING. Today it seems that we can only specify text, int, and time in advanced polling or poll event description; OIDs with octet string d...
almost 7 years ago in Tivoli Network Manager 1 Delivered

go-sensor: Stop losing traces during service startup

When services start up, it takes a while until the instana sensor is ready to handle traces and transmit them successfully. Currently, all traces for calls during that timeframe are lost (e.g. fetching configurations, roles, etc. from supporting m...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Go 3 Delivered

Request for monitoring database of size more than 20TB - APM Agent

APM L3 team has provided the following update: ==> MS SQL Agent can monitor databases having size up to 20TB. If database size is more than this limit, then calculation of attributes like 'Database Free Space', 'Database Percent Used' are affec...
over 3 years ago in ITM/IBM APM 1 Delivered

change getsadata script from ksh to bash etc.

SUSE has announced that it will end support for ksh in SLES 12 on March 2022.https://www.suse.com/releasenotes/x86_64/SUSE-SLES/12-SP1/ When I downloaded the latest version of getsadata today, it seemed that I was still using ksh.https://www.ibm.c...
over 3 years ago in Tivoli System Automation 1 Delivered

MQ sensor to capture expired message counter

On this case many IBM MQ queues have a time set for expire messages that wasn't read, have this information collected by sensor and showed on MQ Dashboards will help expedite the time to solve applications problems, since can give an indication if...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / MQ / Sensor 0 Delivered

Request for ITNCM Device Driver for Huawei NE40E V800R010C10SPC500

Customer is requesting for ITNCM device driver for "Huawei NE40E V800R010C10SPC500" which is one of their core router in their core network.
over 3 years ago in Tivoli Netcool Configuration Manager 3 Delivered

Enable SNMPv3 configurations

The current ITNM WebGUI components version provides the option to use SNMPv3 to be used on SNMP requests, but when it's selected by the user, ITNM actually sends an SNMPv2 request. Since there's already an option on the GUI to use SNMPv3, it would...
almost 2 years ago in Tivoli Network Manager 0 Delivered

Support for Horizontal Pod Autoscaler

Support for Horizontal Pod Autoscaler
over 3 years ago in Instana / Kubernetes 1 Delivered

Nokia Altiplano supportability

we need supportability of Nokia Altiplano model ISAM FX integration with ITNM in terms of device structure and topological discovery as we received below feedback in case TS007824194 that it will be supported in the FP15 as per RFE 146883 however ...
almost 2 years ago in Tivoli Network Manager 0 Delivered

Provide support for Nexus4k 9.x in NCM

By request of Steve Shuman, since there is no support for Nexus4k 9.x, could you please develop the corresponding driver in order to be used in Netcool Configuration Manager? Thank you very much. Please, take this request into consideration as soo...
almost 2 years ago in Tivoli Netcool Configuration Manager 0 Delivered