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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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TLS support in CA Spectrum (CORBA) probe

TLS 1.2/1.3 protocol to be used between CA Spectrum and the CORBA probe. We requires all data to be encrypted in-transit for the connection probe-to-datasource connection (Spectrum connection). This data encryption in-transit is required by bankin...
about 3 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 2 Delivered

ITNM 4.2.0.7:Alcatel SAM 5620 Collector : Connect to Multiple EMS's

We are using Alcatel5620Sam Java collector to connect to single EMS and able to download topology successfully. Currently in customer environment, Nokia NFM-P EMS has been configured with High Availability so that any of the one instance will be i...
over 4 years ago in Tivoli Network Manager 1 Delivered

Ability to filter database groups by database server name

There is currently the ability to filter by database name, but not database server name. In our azure environment, we have plenty of databases with the exact same name, but are located on different database server names. Adding this filter helps u...
about 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud PaaS & DBaaS 3 Delivered

Instant Client for Oracle 19 in ITNM

ITNM installs the client to connect to database for access the NCIM tables. For Oracle, having it installed and upgraded from 4.2.0.3 to 4.2.0.11 (with many steps in-between over the years), I see two clients at $NCHOME/precision/platform/linux2x8...
over 3 years ago in Tivoli Network Manager 0 Delivered

Support Akamai authentication NodeJS module

Akamai requires that you use their own NodeJS module for authenticating to use their APIs - https://techdocs.akamai.com/developer/docs/authenticate-with-edgegrid I'm requesting that the official Akamai module gets added to the supported third part...
8 months ago in Instana / Synthetic 2 Delivered

Support for Redis / Jedis Version 4.x (incl. 4.3.2)

Currently supported according to documentation (https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/262?topic=machine-instrumented-frameworks-libraries) Redis (Jedis) [2.8, 2.10], [3.0, 3.9]
about 1 year ago in Instana / Java 2 Delivered

Update NetBox OSS integration

Update NetBox OSS REST API integration, the current NetBox integration is several year old and missing many APIs. https://demo.netbox.dev/api/schema/swagger-ui/
4 months ago in Rapid Network Automation 0 Delivered

Allow staggering of high impact changes

Problem: App teams: "we cannot have these X number of vms down at the same time" Infra engineers: "we cannot support manual policy creation for each execution schedule for each set of X VMs to reboot in the same CHG window" Description: We have ma...
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / General/Other 1 Delivered

RHEL OVA Template Option

With the recent announcement of CentOS going EoL, the Turbonomic OVA Template is being delivered on Rocky Linux beginning with 8.12.02. Unlike CentOS, Rocky is not approved for US Federal and will require extensive testing. RHEL is already adopted...
8 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / General/Other 1 Delivered

OpenTelemetry Infrastructure correlation improvement

The customer is using the standard Otel protocol exporter (via http/grpc) and sends data to the instana agent on the host. https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-dotnet/tree/main/src/OpenTelemetry.Exporter.OpenTelemetryProtocol They can s...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Other Tracers 8 Delivered