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PINNED Instana on OpenShift Route Flexibility
Hi, My customer has a question about Instana route definitions on OCP. Basically, they have an OCP console address like console-openshift-console.apps.ocpcluster.ibm.com. According to the document; - basedn URL should be like instana.apps.ocpclust...
PINNED Need documentation on how to uninstall Instana for K8 and Docker self hosted installation
We need documentation on how to uninstall Instana and the resources created during the installation of Instana on K8. These steps are helpful especially recovering from failed installation so that the customer could retry the steps.

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DWC: view more dependencies

In DWC 9.5 we want to see more levels of dependencies when clicking the Dependencies button. Currently we only see direct dependencies and it is not enough. Ideally, there would be an option to choose how many levels of dependencies we want to see...
almost 3 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

Mesaage bus probe support Authetication other than basic

Message bus should support other authentcation like okta other than just basic authentication . We currently have message bus probe to which external system posts alarm to it via webhook . However the message bus probe only accepts basic authetica...
10 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

Automated fallback from IBM-hosted monitoring locations

When IBM offers hosted/maintained synthetic monitoring locations. it might be helpful to provide automated fallback or automated verification of failed tests. For example, if a test fails from a monitor in a Virginia datacenter, retest from New Yo...
5 months ago in Instana / Synthetic 2 Not under consideration

Optionally test links as well as page components

Testing a page and the CSS, JS and images that make it up ensures the page is "complete" and works well for transactional websites. For content heavy websites, it's often helpful to also test the pages linked to from the test page. That is especia...
5 months ago in Instana / Synthetic 2 Future consideration

Anomaly detection on issues

When an unusual amount of issues have occured (for an entity) it would be good to assure this boils up somehow. I.e. if CPU usage or memory exhaustion happens more frequently than usual (on a host) the user should be able to be informed pro-active...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Alert 0 Future consideration

Enhancement of nfmp probe

Could you update the NFMP probe for nokia NSP 23?
11 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 1 Planned for future release

Horizontal scaling for CPU

As a user, I’d like to use resource metrics such as CPU and Memory that is captured from Kubeturbo to leverage for a Horizontal Scaling policy on a horizontally scalable k8s service. Note today, the user does have a workaround for CPU. Use Prometu...

CPU pinning workloads

As a user, I’d like to express a tolerance for CPU and memory for whole-core increments, like what we did for throttling. I'd like to set equal CPU request and limit (for OCR). PM update to requirement: We will implement support for rightsizing CP...
11 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Container Platforms (K8s & OpenShift) 1 Planned for future release

TSA takeover by force sequence change request

TSA timeout occurred between DB2 servers (#1 Primary and #2 Secondary) , after this timeout #2 Secondary issued 'takeover by force' command to #1 Primary.Then, #2 became Primary and acknowledged #1 Primary was active (split brain) because the conn...
almost 5 years ago in Tivoli System Automation 4 Not under consideration

Key rotation values in mdm-certificate.yaml needs to updated using the main values.yaml

The key rotation is set in helm_charts/ibm-workload-automation-prod/charts/wa-server-prod/templates/mdm-certificate.yaml. Customers who deploy using the https://github.com/WorkloadAutomation/ibm-workload-automation-chart/blob/master/stable/workloa...
5 months ago in Workload Automation 0 Planned for future release