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REST API only supports basic authentication

IWS REST API has basic authentication option only. which is not IBM security approved. Competitors like BMC COntrol-m provice REST APIs with more secure authentication like bearer authentication. the same must be provided on TWS's API.
about 6 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Future consideration

Requirements for Maintenance Windows(MW) Scheduling - Alert Suppression Request using web link or REST API call using programming and not just using Watson Maintenance windows

Requirements for Maintenance Windows(MW) Scheduling. In order of priority: Need an API for integrations Our Centralized Dashboard should have a way to set Maintenance Windows’s Users should be able to click a link in an incident ticket to disable/...
over 1 year ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Planned for future release

Turbonomic Targets and General Configurations as YAML

I have recently experienced issues at a customer that rotates credentials, api keys or access keys to endpoints or targets and have failed to update Turbo automatically because it is not baked into any operational process. Now the first thing that...
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / General/Other 1 Not under consideration

Node state shows as “Active” in Turbonomic Console even when a Node is marked as “unschedulable” in OpenShift

When draining a NODE OpenShift Kubernetes, and un-schedulable in OpenShift, Turbonomic console shows the node as "Active". There is no way to know if a NODE is un-schedulable or cordoned. Similar to VCenter where a Host is in maintenance mode it s...
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Container Platforms (K8s & OpenShift) 3 Functionality already exists

POD Placement: Error Details insufficient for "Failed to start action... due to error"

Failed POD moves do not say why the Failed to start action ended in an error and what that error is. A long number is shown with in not informative. Can you link the number to a meaning and present that in the error output?
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Container Platforms (K8s & OpenShift) 1 Is a defect

OpenResty Alpine Module Build for Nginx tracing 1.19.9

Customer is trying to monitor kong.They currently use image based on an alpine image: https://hub.docker.com/layers/kong/library/kong/2.5.1-alpine/images/sha256-6896f87b90dcea49ee7009a9963a709e5644ebf0dff8491d2c010bf7fab6a974?context=exploreT...
about 3 years ago in Instana 0 Not under consideration

add AWS resource ID to report column options

I am trying to correlate the scaling recommendations in turbonomics to an AWS cost report, and I can't find a good field to join on (the aws report doesn't have instance name). if the turbonomic report had the instanceID, that would do it for me
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Reporting 0 Not under consideration

Netcool Omnibus Object Server User Repository-Password enforcement policy

Our customer is using Omnibus object server as user repository. And wants to implement the following password enforcement policies.1. Password history should be enforced for last 4 passwords not to be permitted.2. Application should enforce passwo...
over 4 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 4 Future consideration

Oracle SAM policy to support multiple databases

TSAMP is used for keeping Oracle highly available, but currently only supports one database (one database in the SAP-licensed Oracle policy).
over 7 years ago in Tivoli System Automation 2 Not under consideration

Support AWS Lambda Telemetry API

Are there any efforts to use the AWS Lambda Telemetry API ? Many of the competitors already support this feature. Why not Instana ? Couldn't this lead a way to autotracing Lambda ?
over 1 year ago in Instana / Tracing 0 Planned for future release