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PINNED Need documentation on how to uninstall Instana for K8 and Docker self hosted installation
We need documentation on how to uninstall Instana and the resources created during the installation of Instana on K8. These steps are helpful especially recovering from failed installation so that the customer could retry the steps.
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...

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Last Resort Circuit Status Support in ITNM

We need to be able to manage last resort circuit status where the interaface is normally ifadmin up and ifoper down until the primary circuits fail at which time the last resort circuit moves to ifadmin up and ifoper up. We need to not create inte...
about 3 years ago in Tivoli Network Manager 1 Not under consideration

NCM Compliance result should give more meaningful Evaluation

Currently it's hard for user to identify which evaluation in NCM Compliance that's failing or passed. IN each of the execution, under each run, it only show list of Evaluation which mapped to each definition. If 1 of the definition failed, user on...
almost 5 years ago in Tivoli Netcool Configuration Manager 1 Future consideration

OMNIbus Probe/Gateway for Kafka Integration with Confluent Kafka

The Probes/Gateways for Kafka Integration has been certified, with Apache Kafka and IBM Event Streams. IBM event streams is deprecated and we are positioning only Confluent Kafka as part of Cloud Pak for Integration. So certification for Confluent...
about 3 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

Support for centralized Azure Hybrid Benefit (centralized AHUB)

Azure came up with Centralized AHUB support for SQL licenses. Similar in concept to CUDs, where the customers can create a pool of licenses and have the SQL instances (SQL databases, managed instances etc ) consume the license from the pool. When ...
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Billing & Costs & Discounts 0 Future consideration

Implementing a RBAC based access for displaying the PII information in the tracing details

Hi Team, As we were evaluating the usage of Instana Real user monitoring, we saw a concern about all users be able to see the PII information like user name and email address, however we want to limit these details only to a specific set of users...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Access Control / Real User Monitoring 3 Future consideration

Restricting/Disable un-used ObjectServer Fields from WebGUI Event viewer double click

When we double click an event from WebGUI event viewer, we are seeing all the Omnibus fields and most of the fields are empty and not required for the NOC team. Customer is interested to see only the important or required columns when they double ...
about 3 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

WAAPI method filter.createOrReplaceFilter not working as they expect, new feature or API method requested

The Customer is using the WAAPI method filter.createOrReplaceFilter. They have found that if the filter that this is being run on is a dependency for another filter then the file.createOrReplace does not complete. It has been confirmed that this i...
over 1 year ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Is a defect

API Support to NCM Compliance Component

NCM's REST API doesn't support the compliance part of the tool. From an NCM perspective, the REST API only works with the "worker" side of the product.
about 3 years ago in Tivoli Netcool Configuration Manager 1 Not under consideration

Constrained vCPU VM's from Azure taken into consideration for recommendations

Azure has a class of VM's that have constrained vCPU's for DB vm's that often require high memory, storage and IO bandwidth, but not high core count. So the VM class will basically only use a portion of the core count for that class to save money ...
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM 1 Not under consideration

Matt would like Turbonomic to have the ability to base RI purchase planning recommendations on a greater time scale than just 30 days, ideally up to 90 days.

Better visualization of long term usage of RIs and better able to compete with native Azure RI recommendations
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Planning 0 Future consideration