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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?
PINNED Instana Backend on ARM
Some customer have the request to install Instana backend on their Server which is using the ARM architecture CPU.

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SNMP Polling can't be done in the console

Currently ITNM is not used for performance polling and SNMP polling is not in scope and the topology is only used for discovery purpose.
about 1 year ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 2 Not under consideration

Watson PROD - Event timestamps behind by 5hrs

Watson clock is correct, but Event timestamps incorrect.
about 1 year ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

Unable to login to more than 1 environment at once

Cannot login to Watson-DEV if already logged into Watson-UAT and vice versa
about 1 year ago in Tivoli Network Manager 2 Not under consideration

Topology Manager -Nokia Transmission Observer implementation

The Topology Manager includes many observers but it will be very useful to also have an observer for the Nokia Transmission segment as it unsupported by the ITNM
about 1 year ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

ITM TEP Desktop client - additional information/message on logon screen before login

As per requirements monitoring team is obliged to add additional information on TEP desktop client logon screen, before user gets authenticated. Please refer to TS003840030.
over 3 years ago in ITM/IBM APM 1 Planned for future release

Ability to add dependencies to individual run cycles

Ability to add dependencies to individual run cycles. Currently can't. See highlighted example below of what is required. We have a jobstream with multiple runcycles, but want one of those runcycle to follow another jobstream, not them all. We hav...
over 3 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

Support for selects/inserts/updates/deletes/others queries metrics on Postgres database

I have enabled the PostgreSQL monitoring as describe in https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=technologies-monitoring-postgresql I am able to see common metrics. It is mandatory to have Query based monitoring for postgres...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Planned for future release

Add a new time option for configuring an Event

The only current time option is the "time window". It would be much appreciated if there is another time option to specify the time for which an event will only trigger if the conditions are met continually during that time. For instance, if we se...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Alert 0 Functionality already exists

Default MSL *LINUX_SYSTEMS should segregate the rhel 7 & 8 versions.

There are certain process which are different in rhel7 & rhel8 so while creating situaiton for these process monitoring it is difficult to separate the OS versions. and it will be huge effort in larger environment to manually creating separate...
about 1 year ago in ITM/IBM APM 2 Not under consideration

We are interested in NFM-P probe for NSP 21.3

Customers are upgrading to NSP 21.3 for better features and security. A certified probe is required for the same.
over 2 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 1 Future consideration