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PINNED Instana Backend on ARM
Some customer have the request to install Instana backend on their Server which is using the ARM architecture CPU.
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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Provide level WARN for Docker version of Instana agent

In https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=requirements-installing-host-agent-docker#installation INSTANA_LOG_LEVEL does not provide the level WARN. I guess this is an issue and should be added. Esp. for consistency.
about 1 year ago in Instana / Logging 1 Planned for future release

Oracle E-Business Plugin for Workload Scheduler - Job isn't terminated in Oracle upon termination in IWS.

After submission, when the job is running and is reported in EXEC status in IBM Workload Scheduler, you can stop it if necessary, by using the kill command. The kill command stops the job in IBM Workload Scheduler, but not in the Oracle E-Business...
over 3 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

Being able to see OS patches needed

Would be nice to see the OS patches needed for VMs
about 1 year ago in Instana / Infrastructure 1 Not under consideration

Gateway for Message Bus (XML Gateway) Should Allow Inclusion of Custom Headers When Running in HTTP Transport Mode

Allow inclusion of custom headers when the Gateway for Message Bus (nco_g_xml) is running with Gate.XMLGateway.TransportType : 'HTTP'Most significantly, an authentication header. Currently per IBM support, only basic authentication is supported, a...
over 3 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 1 Not under consideration

Openstack agent for CP4MCM

On Telco to support network virtualization is very common to use Openstack as the cloud operations which operators runs their VNFs (Virtual Network Functions) and is very important to monitor this environment. A CP4MCM agent for Openstack can help...
over 3 years ago in Cloud Pak for Multicloud Management Ideas 0 Not under consideration

Allow automatic WPA-enablement (based on some default policy settings) for newly discovered clusters/vms

As a sequel to https://automation-management.ideas.ibm.com/ideas/TURBO-I-321, it would provide great benefit to customers to have automatic (default) WPA settings for newly discovered clusters/VMs.
about 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 1 Not under consideration

NOI integration with CyberArk

Currently my client's authentication system is done by cyberark, it does not allow users with local authentication
about 1 year ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 1 Future consideration

Extend Turbonomic Target Support for FlashBlade Storage

Veterans Affairs Financial Services Center is moving towards a hardware refresh that included FlashBlade Storage. Pure FlashBlade Storage allows capacity and performance to be scaled independently and can be continuously improved over time. VA FSC...
about 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Target Support 0 Not under consideration

Remember selection time when creating short links in analytics when using presets

If you are using a relative time preset like last 1 hour e.g. and you wait for a while and then create a short link the time frame of the short link has moved by the time elapsed while you wait. This is confusing as using the short link then dlive...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Application perspectives 0 Planned for future release

Ability to search by POD IP in dynamic focus

The use case is to identify the POD details from a Nginx downstream when it returns an error for no response from downstream service and it returns only IP of the downstream POD. However, unfortunately the current filtering with dynamic focus can ...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Infrastructure 3 Future consideration