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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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Provide a way to disable Java distributed tracing on per app basis

The documentation shows a way to disable distributed instrumentation tracing for Java apps through host agent configuration: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=machine-java-configuration#disabling-automatic-instrumenta...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Java 1 Delivered

ITNCM driver to support recent KEX

ITNCM base driver doesn't support recent KEX to communicate with network devices. No match in kex params 'mac-algorithms-cli2srv', our's: hmac-md5,hmac-sha1,hmac-sha256@ssh.com, peer's: hmac-sha2-256.
almost 2 years ago in Tivoli Netcool Configuration Manager 0 Delivered

When exporting data from unattached volumes, provide the data of the last attached VM as one of the exported fields.

When exporting data from unattached volumes, provide the data of the last attached VM as one of the exported fields. That data will allow for additional validation of if a VM is still active (and perhaps the user is using attaching/unattaching dis...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / On-Premises (Hypervisor & Storage & Network) 2 Delivered

Request for monitoring database of size more than 20TB - APM Agent

APM L3 team has provided the following update: ==> MS SQL Agent can monitor databases having size up to 20TB. If database size is more than this limit, then calculation of attributes like 'Database Free Space', 'Database Percent Used' are affec...
over 3 years ago in ITM/IBM APM 1 Delivered

Add Storage Cluster Filter to Create VM Groups

Create VM groups using a storage cluster filter. Customer wants to move VMs from storage cluster A to storage cluster B. VM groups are needed for the place and do not place policies.
almost 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / On-Premises (Hypervisor & Storage & Network) 0 Delivered

Update Android Client of Instana - So it will work with upcoming Gradle 8.0

Can you pls make the Android client Gradle 8.0 compatible? Error from Gradle (Android Studio build): API 'android.registerTransform' is obsolete. It will be removed in version 8.0 of the Android Gradle plugin. The Transform API is removed to im...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Real User Monitoring 1 Delivered

change getsadata script from ksh to bash etc.

SUSE has announced that it will end support for ksh in SLES 12 on March 2022.https://www.suse.com/releasenotes/x86_64/SUSE-SLES/12-SP1/ When I downloaded the latest version of getsadata today, it seemed that I was still using ksh.https://www.ibm.c...
almost 4 years ago in Tivoli System Automation 1 Delivered

Request for ITNCM Device Driver for Huawei NE40E V800R010C10SPC500

Customer is requesting for ITNCM device driver for "Huawei NE40E V800R010C10SPC500" which is one of their core router in their core network.
almost 4 years ago in Tivoli Netcool Configuration Manager 3 Delivered

go-sensor: Stop losing traces during service startup

When services start up, it takes a while until the instana sensor is ready to handle traces and transmit them successfully. Currently, all traces for calls during that timeframe are lost (e.g. fetching configurations, roles, etc. from supporting m...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Go 3 Delivered

Support for Horizontal Pod Autoscaler

Support for Horizontal Pod Autoscaler
almost 4 years ago in Instana / Kubernetes 1 Delivered