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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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Time Based Monitoring

We have several Monitors which are timing based and trigger on Certain days/date and time. Currently Instana doesn’t handle these requests.
7 months ago in Instana 0 Submitted

Support for Openshift Virt VM provisioning in self-service catalogue

Our customer is using MCMP to self-service deploy VMs in both VMware and Red Hat Virtualization. Now as Red Hat is moving to Openshift Virt they are asking for the functionality to self-service deploy VMs in Openshift Virt
7 months ago in Cloud Pak for Multicloud Management Ideas 1 Planned for future release

IBM to provide observer for NetBrain

NetBrain is used by us for mapping network topologies and so it would be useful for ASM to be able to import such topology data into ASM through the use of an observer. NetBrain Automation Features (netbraintech.com)
7 months ago in AIOps Integrations 0 Under review

Instana UI - show approximation level for on sampled data

show approximation level (100%, 10%, 1%) and samping logic in-a-nutshell in Analytic View while sampling is active
7 months ago in Instana / Tracing 2 Future consideration

Custom Dashboards need percent utilizations

in custom dashboards, is there an option to select % utilizations instead of absolute values. As an example for memory utilization, it shows the GB utilized, but, is there way to show % of the allocated memory used.
about 1 year ago in Instana / Common 1 Future consideration

Limit NCIM Connectionpool in DASH

When having ITNM integrated into DASH, we can see quite a lot of connections going from the DASH server to the database. This is due to the connection pool being for the ITNM GUIs to connect to the database. We'd like to have an option to limit th...
about 6 years ago in Tivoli Network Manager 2 Not under consideration

CPU Socket adjustment.

client: " I’d like to have Turbo always set the number of CPU sockets to 2, and to adjust the cores per socket # to modify the # of vCPUs when RightSizing. Currently this is accomplished with a custom script. I would like this configurable on at t...
about 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / On-Premises (Hypervisor & Storage & Network) 1 Functionality already exists

SQL Target Enhancement

Client would like the SQL targets to be enhanced so that they can configure them with multiple ports and potentially multiple credentials.
about 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / APIs 1 Not under consideration

Check Java version in prerequisite scanner

We recently updated one of our customers to ITNM FixPack 10. During preparation for the change, we checked the system requirements using the prerequisite scanner. Unfortunately, the prereq checker doesn't seem to check for the java version require...
almost 4 years ago in Tivoli Network Manager 3 Not under consideration

We want to control how often we access AzureStorage

We are experiencing problems with AzureStorage monitoring using Instana. The problem is that excessive access to AzureStorage causes "TooManyAccess" errors. According to Azure support, this error is over access from a subscription perspective and ...
7 months ago in Instana / Azure 0 Planned for future release