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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?
PINNED Distribute the Instana kubectl plugin with Krew
Krew is a popular open source plugin manager for the kubectl command-line tool maintained by the Kubernetes SIG CLI community. The tool helps to discover, install, and update kubectl plugins by offering a centralised plugin repository. The usage o...

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Requesting visibility of NICs under windows teaming

When viewing Windows server with NIC teaming, sometimes it is necessary to know what ports and NIC cards are represented by the single logical connection.
over 7 years ago in Tivoli Application Dependency Discovery Manager 2 Not under consideration

Watson PROD - Event timestamps behind by 5hrs

Watson clock is correct, but Event timestamps incorrect.
over 1 year ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

Unable to login to more than 1 environment at once

Cannot login to Watson-DEV if already logged into Watson-UAT and vice versa
over 1 year ago in Tivoli Network Manager 2 Not under consideration

Topology Manager -Nokia Transmission Observer implementation

The Topology Manager includes many observers but it will be very useful to also have an observer for the Nokia Transmission segment as it unsupported by the ITNM
over 1 year ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

Message Bus gateway MQTT transport username/password

The MQTT transport for Message Bus gateway only allows for anonymous connections to an MQTT server. If connection is to a RabbitMQ server, an anonymous connection is usually only allowed from a localhost for security reasons. The transport module ...
over 4 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 2 Not under consideration

New Collector for Discovering FiberHome MSAN devices

The customer has a set of MSAN’s that are from FiberHome OEM. The OEM supports TL1 as NBI for collecting inventory data. Since ITNM doesn’t have a generic TL1 collector, we will need a new collector developed. The following are the TL1 comman...
almost 3 years ago in Tivoli Network Manager 0 Not under consideration

Support for selects/inserts/updates/deletes/others queries metrics on Postgres database

I have enabled the PostgreSQL monitoring as describe in https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=technologies-monitoring-postgresql I am able to see common metrics. It is mandatory to have Query based monitoring for postgres...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Planned for future release

Add a new time option for configuring an Event

The only current time option is the "time window". It would be much appreciated if there is another time option to specify the time for which an event will only trigger if the conditions are met continually during that time. For instance, if we se...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Alert 0 Functionality already exists

Default MSL *LINUX_SYSTEMS should segregate the rhel 7 & 8 versions.

There are certain process which are different in rhel7 & rhel8 so while creating situaiton for these process monitoring it is difficult to separate the OS versions. and it will be huge effort in larger environment to manually creating separate...
over 1 year ago in ITM/IBM APM 2 Not under consideration

To have a easy way to know which targets in scope were unreachable during the discovery

In our environment we usually run discoveries on big scopes. It could happen that some targets included in the scope were unreachable through ping. We are looking for a simple way to have a list of scoped targets, for each of them having the simpl...
over 7 years ago in Tivoli Application Dependency Discovery Manager 2 Not under consideration