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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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IBM Runbook Automation (RBA) - conditional logic in the runbook/automation editor

Why is it useful? - Right now RBA allows no custom conditional logic to chain together runbooks/automations, which is handy to build end-to-end automation workflow. Who would benefit from it? - All customers of RBA, everyone would be able to build...
about 2 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Planned for future release

Websphere Node Name tag to be available for Custom Payload

After configuring the offline event for any websphere entity in our environment, we did receive an email alert on websphere offline event. But it doesn't give any detail on which node the websphere went offline. I've attached a few pics for your r...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Agent / Sensor 0 Planned for future release

Being able to add AWS observer using IAM roles instead of access and secret keys.

Customers have polices to changes keys every 90 days. it will be nightmare to change observer keys every 90 days. it will would be nice to add AWS observer target using IAM role. This is a must requirement from DISH Networks to do a POC.
over 2 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Planned for future release

How to set a password for the KeyStores and TrustStores when deploying IWA with Kubernetes/Helm Charts.

The password used to create the KeyStore and TrustStore is randomly generated. Even though it can be retrieved from the env variable SSL_PASSWORD or decoding the stash (sth) file, a facility must be provided to set it to a desired password. The fo...
8 months ago in Workload Automation 0 Planned for future release

We need cloud provider column in the Pending Actions download file.

Analyzing all the data is tedious - why do we have to create a special column to separate the data. Turbo is supposed to by hybrid and multicloud
8 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 1 Planned for future release

Enable beta Apdex method on self-hosted/on-prem installation.

Enable beta Apdex method on self-hosted/on-prem installation. This scenario is potentially very usefull for customer (it has on-prem installation).
about 2 years ago in Instana / SLO/SLI (STAN) 0 Planned for future release

To be able to use SNMP OIDs in Metadata

For example to have the serial number or software version of devices in SevOne. It would be good if this was based on device type. Each device type would then have its own snmp OID. The serial number would be requested during the discovery.
about 2 years ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 0 Planned for future release

Ability to customize the name of New Relic targets in the Turbonomic UI

The customer has 100+ New Relic accounts he would like to add into Turbonomic and currently the only way they can be named is off the New Relic Account Number. Being able to make a customized name would solve the problem of the customer having to ...
about 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 0 Planned for future release

Centralized Update: Ability to change BACKUP_DIR, TMP_DIR and other parameters dynamically

Have ability to specified parameters like BACKUP_DIR or TMP_DIR or launch pre-script to change theses values before start centralized update from DWC.
about 7 years ago in Workload Automation 4 Planned for future release

Monitoring python applications running on Windows hosts in Instana

Hi Instana Team, As a user who relies on Python applications running in a Windows environment, I wanted to highlight the current limitations with the instana.collector.helpers.runtime module due to its dependency on the Unix-specific resource libr...
9 months ago in Instana / Python 1 Planned for future release