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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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Recalculate smart alert baseline via API

We're managing multiple instana backends via API configuration. This works for many configuration items. However it doesn't work for Smart Alerts with a daily or weakly seasonality. Seasonality differs per system. While it is possible to recalcula...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Alert 2 Delivered

Official terraform support

We are managing all of our infra aspects as a code principle, because of that we would like to have instana terraform provider in order to create our alerts & dashboards as a code
about 2 years ago in Instana / Alert / Application perspectives / Extend Capabilities 1 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...
about 2 years ago in Tivoli Network Manager 0 Delivered

Support to Monitor Oracle RAC

Hi, Instana currently doesn't support monitoring Oracle RAC Instances either by Remote or Local configuration. Many cutsomers are having Oracle RAC Production Instances. Also Oracle monitoring is limited to configure OracleSID. Need to extend to s...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Sensor 10 Delivered

Add target support to IBM PowerVM

I received from Turbonomic & SevONE Sales Director, Technology Business Unit Data,AI&Automation Div. IBM Japan, Ltd. that IBM does not support IBM AIX and Oracle VM on Turbonomic. My client TOHOKU EPC's subisidiary TOiNX requested us to su...
about 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Target Support 2 Delivered

RightSize vCPU and vMem at the Same Time

For on-prem VMs, I’d like Turbo to be able to RightSize a VM’s vMem and vCPU at the same time instead of requiring a reboot for each action - which further requires 2 separate outage windows because the recommendations go away for ~4 hours when a ...
about 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM 4 Delivered

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...
about 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 5 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 ...
about 2 years ago in Tivoli Network Manager 0 Delivered

Envoy proxy default address/port and sensor configuration

Preface: Currently monitoring envoy proxy metrics appears to REQUIRE setting the --admin-address-path command line flag. https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=technologies-monitoring-envoy-proxy#configuration Two ideas: S...
about 2 years ago in Instana / C / Team Proxies 2 Delivered

Add ESX cluster name to pending actions csv

When downloading the pending actions for a cluster or group CITI has asked us if we could add the cluster name for each VM in the CSV
about 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 2 Delivered