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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 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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Request to change the default of init script of TSA services in order not to output message when issue "chkconfig on" command

"Request to change the default of init script of TSA services in order not to output error messages when issuing "chkconfig on" command. " When we issue "chkconfig on" command at TSA environment, we receive some messages from insserv shown as foll...
almost 11 years ago in Tivoli System Automation 2 Not under consideration

Request for a written description of detailed information in the TSA manuals

"Request for a written description of detailed information about relationship between OpState of resources and OpState of resource group, in Administrator's and User's Guide" This request comes from the PMR - 79859,6XM,760 (E54-z-79859)TSA V3.2.1 ...
almost 11 years ago in Tivoli System Automation 2 Not under consideration

Probe support for Release 4.5 of TMF814

The current probe does not support Release 4.5 of TMF814
about 3 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 1 Future consideration

Add PKCS12 certificate support to Message Bus probe

The Netcool MessageBus probe for Ciena requires an x509 certificate to connect to Ciena EMS. Using IBM Java keytool to create the certificate with the x509 option results in a message to then convert the resulting certificate to PKCS12 - as x509 i...
about 3 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 1 Future consideration

Single execution plan for executing same action on systems located at different timezones, like Cloud Availability zones or regions

If I have a distributed application deployed at different timezones, I need to create many policies to execute an action at 6 AM on Saturday. This leads to a large number of execution plans and associated policies. If the action is same and need t...
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 0 Not under consideration

Do not rewrite Instana Console UI URL to host_name in settings.hcl

We need to skip setting the host_name variable in the settings.hcl file. Whenever we are trying to login to the console using the IP address or the hostname or the loadbalancer URL, its redirecting to the defined value of host_name in the settings...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Self Hosted 2 Not under consideration

Third party library stack traces

Having the source map integrated into instana is very helpful, however sometimes, the stack trace is not that clear, because the stack trace reported is related to a third party library, and in this case the mapping is not very helpful
over 1 year ago in Instana / Common / Real User Monitoring 3 Not under consideration

Support for Grails in Application Monitoring & Tracing

Currently Grails application although running in the JVM can not be monitored on Application Monitoring mode.
over 1 year ago in Instana / Tracing 1 Not under consideration

Full support for Spring Integration framework within Java tracer

Currently, Spring Integration is not a fully supported framework. Some of the calls are supported, but not all.
over 1 year ago in Instana / Agent / Java / Tracing 0 Future consideration

Start/stop instana agent looking for environment variable not set and maxdepth flag inside find which doesn't exist on AIX clients

Everytime an instana agent when stopped or started throws up this error on two environment variables not being set. JAVA_MAX_MEM' and 'JAVA_OPTS'. Assuming these needs to be defined in the setenv file. These variables needs to be set and exported ...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Agent 0 Functionality already exists