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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 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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Improving Resiliency #1: re-attaching "running OS processes" in secondary node after a failover

Whenever a failover happens, we need the Agents to be capable of re-attaching the running OS processes (attached to each individual SAP Jobs) when its services are restarted/failed-over from Site A to Site B.
11 months ago in Workload Automation 1 Not under consideration

IWS agents to be cluster aware

IWS agents are not cluster aware and as such are not supported in environments that are clustered and as such not supported. We are running FTA agents on RHEL pacemaker clusters using nfs but are also assessing other remote file system solutions e...
almost 2 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Not under consideration

Netcool Omnibus WebGUI widget - Value status Gauge

We have been using netcool for event management for long time. Before Webgui we were using WebTop. There was java based system of maps to create views/pages. Now in DASH we can use widget. Problem is, that we cannot create same view with lot of "b...
over 3 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 2 Not under consideration

Possibility to mask GET values based on value of other parameter in websites

We would like to extend the functionality of GET url parameter masking. Currently, it is possible to specify directly name of the key, whose value will be masked. i.e. "/mykey/i" for url /?mykey=XXX will change to /?mykey=<redacted>. However...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities / Real User Monitoring 1 Not under consideration

Providing a Dashboard to List Release Markers across environments/tenants

Today, we have a Release marker feature to let us know when the release was made. As we started using this feature, it could be enhanced by allowing us to create dashboards to understand the release flows from one environment to another and get a ...
11 months ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 1 Not under consideration

Increase the Limitation on 16 Characters for the JobStream name

Increase the Limitation on 16 Characters for the JobStream name. I
about 9 years ago in Workload Automation 3 Not under consideration

User option to cleanup old images following the upgrade process.

When performing an upgrade of Turbonomic the old images are just left in the /var directory. Nexttime when a user goes to upgrade and they run the upgrade-precheck.sh script, the /var directory is often over the 70% limit and the user must manuall...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / General/Other 2 Not under consideration

Need Message Bus probe using webhook to authenticate client

Currently we have probe connecting to an endpoint as a secure client. But here, we want enable/start messagebus probe as server enabling secure webhook endpoint for clients to connect and post the JSON formatted data on the webhook endpoint.
over 3 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Not under consideration

Enable OAuth2.0 support in Message bus Gateway

We want to integrate netcool with salesforce using Message But Gateway.Salesforce supports OAuth2.0 , but at present Message Bus Gateway does not support OAuth2.0.Kindly update message bus gateway to support OAuth2.0.
over 4 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 1 Not under consideration

Support for podman on RHEL8 for Self-hosted backend server

At this point, we are not planning to add support for hosting the Instana backend with podman. The RHEL 8 docker package has been replaced by the container-tools module in RHEL 8 and some customers do not want to install docker-ce for RHEL 8 for t...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Self Hosted 12 Not under consideration