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PINNED Self hosted backed on Docker, Support for RHEL 9.x
According to support matrix RHEL 9.x is not supported for self hosted backed installations. However vast majority of customers are using RHEL 9.x RHEL 9.x OS support required for Instana self hosted backend
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...

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ITNM poller - convert HEX to Decimal output form snmp get request

With snmp get, Broacade swith reports data in HEX format:SNMPv2-SMI::experimental.94.4.5.1.6.16.0.136.148.113.103.201.120.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.132 = Hex-STRING: 00 00 00 00 04 57 2F 5C If the same data is gathering by ITNM poller would be nice to conve...
almost 4 years ago in Tivoli Network Manager 0 Delivered

Add VSphere to list of product areas available in RBAC

The customer would like to be able to limit users access to the VSphere product area using RBAC"
almost 4 years ago in Instana / Access Control 1 Delivered

CP4MCM Sizing Template - to support GSI Partners

am part of GSI Ecosystem to drive Public cloud usage as well as cloudpak from the Global System Integrators perspective. The tool will be critical as SI prefers self paced tool to start the conversation and interact with them. Most of SI asked is ...
almost 4 years ago in Cloud Pak for Multicloud Management Ideas 0 Delivered

NCP_GIS troubleshooting tool

ncp_gis has no real log files, and it is very common to have problems with the sqls it uses. We want a tool able to run the same queries as ncp_gis and show the results, with this we can understand where the ncp_gis is having issues.
about 4 years ago in Tivoli Network Manager 0 Delivered

ITNM: support AddNode.pl without running full discovery first

the ability to run AddNode.pl without having to run a full discovery after a restart of ncp_disco. Currently, if there is a restart of ncp_disco.We will not able to run AddNode.pl. We are currently automated the discovery using addNode.pl.So, the ...
about 4 years ago in Tivoli Network Manager 1 Delivered

TDWC Monitor Jobs 'Hold with Successors' issue with function - Option to block the function is missing

Need to find a way to prevent users from using the "Hold with Successors" menu option .Would like to either prevent from security file or remove the menu option as there appear to be issues with it and we don't want people accidentally using it an...
about 4 years ago in Workload Automation 2 Delivered

Solve cookie caching problem that impacts application monitoring

Since the inception of the BOD we have consistently seen problems with some of the embedded UIs, especially ICAM, because their cookie lifecycles are not aligned with the parent MCM UI. This means users will sometimes get prompted for a login when...
about 4 years ago in Cloud Pak for Multicloud Management Ideas 0 Delivered

Support for Inifinispan tracing

Tracking of cache calls to Jboss data grid which are currently not visible in Instana traces
about 4 years ago in Instana 0 Delivered

Installing from OpenShift Registry

Commonly the cloud paks require a big space on HDD (tar.gz files, the uncompress process, the load into the local docker registry, Why not try to load the same file (tar.gz) into the openshift registry? and from this point launch the installer (in...
about 4 years ago in Cloud Pak for Multicloud Management Ideas 1 Delivered

Hardware Sizing Tool

CP4MCM offers various features and based on the feature the OCP cluster hardware requirements change, it would be nice if we have a web based sizing tool to make a feature selection and it will let us know the hardware sizing requirements.
about 4 years ago in Cloud Pak for Multicloud Management Ideas 1 Delivered