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PINNED Self hosted backed on Docker, Support for RHEL 9.x
According to support matrix RHEL 9.x is not supported for self hosted backed installations. However vast majority of customers are using RHEL 9.x RHEL 9.x OS support required for Instana self hosted backend
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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When an event Action is in Error , Write in DWC what the error is. Webadmin does this . discovered in message.log

quicker in event rule resolution
12 months ago in Workload Automation 2 Future consideration

jobinfo binary functionality  needed on DA's

jobinfo binary functionality needed on DA's
12 months ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

Want to see elapsed time of jobs in DWC

Want to see elapsed time of jobs in DWC
12 months ago in Workload Automation 7 Functionality already exists

JOBS jobstream to have a proper schedid (0AAA etc), not a schedid of JOBS which changes to the old CF format when carried forward

JOBS jobstream to have a proper schedid (0AAA etc), not a schedid of JOBS which changes to the old CF format when carried forward
12 months ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

To be able to convert strings from snmp OIDs to values for indicators.

To be able to convert strings from snmp OIDs to values for indicators.
12 months ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 1 Planned for future release

Detecting When Devices are Unvailable and Be Notified

For example: If a device is via SNMP and ICMP not available/reachable, then it is most likely down (severity: critical). Otherwise, it is still up (severity: error). So that I can better distinguish whether a device is actually down
12 months ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 1 Planned for future release

Connect IWS to CyberArk to allow CLI to function.

Connect IWS to CyberArk, to allow checking of password change from vault, to alleviate static passwords, used within the conman and composer CLI
almost 2 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Planned for future release

add cgroups v2 PSI metrics to Instana

With the cgroupv2 starting to emerge maybe is a good idea to start collecting and using the PSI metrics available in machines/containers that enabled cgroupsv2. They are valid for Servers and containers. You can find details here about the PSI met...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Future consideration

DWC - Manage Engine function was not enabled for Developer and Operator role to create Engine

DWC server - ttfai740OS Version - AIX 7.2.0.0DWC version - 9.5 FP02 Manage Role Section --> Only Administrator role have access to "Manage Engine" function, there are many application teams in our environment, we had plan to assign Developer an...
almost 3 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Functionality already exists

instana ELK plugin is not working as expected if we use someother logshipper like vector

out setup Instana version : 241 Elastic version 8.2 Kibana : Stack Management 8.2.3 vector: 0.27.0-debian if I click on pod or container link as it launching the correct kibana dashboard without any logs as there are some issue in filter string it...
almost 1 year ago in Instana / Logging 1 Future consideration