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PINNED Reduce Instana infrastructure footprint by reducing metrics resolution
First, we installed on self-hosted Instana Backend on Docker (on-premies). However, the backend didn't respond to the production load and lost monitoring data. Then, We decided to go forward with Openshift Installation. However, the recommended Op...
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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Ability to group TDWC filters for jobs or jobstreams

The ability to group job or jobstream filters would be great help. Our monitoring team work with 180+ filters for jobs alone. Navigating this list is time consuming and cumbersome. Some are using the bookmark feature and then using sub folders wit...
over 8 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Delivered

Event rule that monitors number of executing jobs. The rule should monitor a specified ratio or specified number of executing

Event rule that monitors number of executing jobs. The rule should monitor a specified ratio or specified number of executing jobs. If executing jobs value or ratio meets or exceeds current cpu job limit an action will be performed. Add action to ...
almost 9 years ago in Workload Automation 3 Delivered

Dynamic Agents should behave same way as FTA in regads to non-interactive session

On 9.1 FP1 and PMR 78443,010,678 changes was made to the way jobs were started on the FTA. We then created PMR 16192,010,678 since we found that the Dynamic agent behaved in a different manner and got the following response:let me clarify some poi...
about 9 years ago in Workload Automation 7 Delivered

Conman equivalent for dynamic agents

Currently, dynamic agents have no capability to track the workload on the system where the dynamic agent is installed (only the TDWC can be used for this task). An equivalent of conman would be required to track workload on the dynamic agent.
over 9 years ago in Workload Automation 3 Delivered

ITNM SNMP poll definition should allow setting specific index

When trying to snmp poll for e.g. a routing engine teperature index it resulted that it is not possible to query directly from the basic threshold policy on an indexed OID like 1.3.6.1.4.1.2636.3.1.13.1.7.9.1.0.0. It is only possible to poll for t...
over 9 years ago in Tivoli Network Manager 2 Delivered

Enhancement ticket for the product future Installations

We request IBM to open an Enhancement ticket for the issue that we are struggling for MDM, BackUp MDM, FTA, Patch, etc. installations. [1] 'root' / 'sudo-root' access requirement: We aren't allowed to be 'root' or 'sudo-root' on a system and execu...
over 10 years ago in Workload Automation 4 Delivered