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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 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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Netcool Impact UI Data Provider is unable to capture client details, such as ip address, user that connected and other useful

As advised in case TS003414395, it is not possible to capture the details of a client connecting to the Netcool Impact UI Data Provider. Please see the case for further details.
about 4 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Not under consideration

IWS/IWA distributed engine improved variable management

The customer that is an historical IWS for z/OS client is implementing their first distributed engine environment. During this implementation they discovered that the IWS distributed engine does not provide a common variable management between the...
over 5 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Future 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...
over 2 years ago in Tivoli Network Manager 0 Future consideration

API: Support EntityId->Host parameter in query to get all Snapshots of a single Host

Introduction: In an Enterprise Context, Instana contains valueable informations about running software on single machines or clusters, when an Agent is installed. With the current API it is hard to replicate UI functionalities, like showing all pr...
over 1 year ago in Instana / API-C / Infrastructure 2 Functionality already exists

Allow for local administrative login while utilizing SSO/MFA

When using MFA/SSO with Turbonomic it will only allow for login via that MFA/SSO provider. If something changes or the login no longer functions, it is then impossible to access the Turbonomic UI. I believe it would be a good idea to leave some so...
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Authentication & Security 1 Not under consideration

Would love to see a VPN feature for targets that sit behind one

When creating demos for customers, we don't always get access to their production environment during pre-poc stages. I was attempting to connect a Azure ROKS instance where Turbonomic is installed to another techzone instance of a vCenter for samp...
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Target Support 1 Not under consideration

TSRM Gateway needs a new property Gate.TSRM.MaximoAuthentication

Maximo v7.6.1 no longer allows anonymous logins. There is a new parameter, mxe.int.allowdefaultlogin, which overrides ALLOWDFLTLOGIN in SMP\maximo\applications\maximo\mboejb\ejbmodule\META-INF\ejb-jar.xml in ICD. When mxe.int.allowdefaultlogin is ...
over 1 year ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

Add Global Search on the main home/landing page to make is easier and quicker to search

Adding a global search option in the white space in the top bar on the main home screen to make is easier and quicker for users to search for anything in Turbo. As the search on the side is not a good user experience as it defaults to VM's and use...
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 0

Start / StopCommand is not issued to the resources with Unknown state, during start / stop of resource group or takeover.

"StartCommand / StopCommand is not issued to the resources with Unknown state, during starting / stopping of resource group or takeover" This request comes from the PMR - 04264,616,760The request is for a change to issue StartCommand / StopCommand...
almost 11 years ago in Tivoli System Automation 2 Not under consideration

Possibility to configure ulimits of instana containers (docker-based on-premise setup)

We recently had an issue with the max amount of open files per container. The Instana support told us, that there is currently no option to configure that. We'd love to configure that for specific containers in the settings.hcl file.
over 1 year ago in Instana / Self Hosted 3 Not under consideration