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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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Improve i-Series agent performance

Using Instana to monitor IBM i-Series system is not being to successful due to the agent being to heavy on the CPU usage of the i-Series. We need an improvement on the performance of the agent, which currently is to heavy and clients are not willi...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / IBM i / Sensor 1 Is a defect

Automated/semi-automated remediations to address Security and Compliance violations for VMs/Servers

Empower self-healing remediation with low and zero touch for cost avoidance. As a Cloud Admin , I want to be informed about any Security & Compliance deviation in my Client´s environments so I can take the necessary actions to avoid audit issu...
almost 5 years ago in Cloud Pak for Multicloud Management Ideas 0 Not under consideration

Real time visibility of Security & Compliance posture/state of VMs/Servers

Ensure the clients' environments are managed according to regulatory standards (PCI, HIPPA, etc). Visibility of the posture is the key to enable that. As a Security Analyst (ISA, ISM, GSPM, Security DPE), I need real time visibility about Security...
almost 5 years ago in Cloud Pak for Multicloud Management Ideas 0 Future consideration

Specific Dates Identified to Amortize Bonus Payments

Customer needs the ability to amortize bonus payments over specific start and end dates.    Some employees get full bonus in first year regardless of start date, others do not.  So the ability to prorate the bonus over a period of t...
almost 2 years ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Under review

Request to provide ITM Linux Base OS package 6.3.7 to support linux on Power ppc64le platform.

Team, I am from Elevance Account to Support Tivoli monitoring. Linux build team is trying to install Linux ITM packages( ITM_V6.3.0.7_BASE_LINUX_64_EN.tar.gz on the server which has Power ppc64le platform, but this package didn’t support. So, they...
12 months ago in ITM/IBM APM 1 Not under consideration

sshd and security ciphers that are no longer recommended by the industry

Within SSHD.conf there are older unsupported security ciphers that the industry has recommended to be mitigated. (This was found during a network security scan) Below is an export from SSHD.conf in its original file. # Limit the Ciphers and MACs t...
12 months ago in SevOne / Configuration and Administration 0 Planned for future release

Openshift Service Mesh support

Instana agent on Openshift currently does not support Service Mesh bypass and monitoring .
12 months ago in Instana / Agent 2 Planned for future release

Resource Filtering for Mediation Packs in Predictive Insights

It's currently only possible to filter on Metrics being pushed into Spark/Cassandra, being able to further filter and exclude resources deemed unimportant will help refine and focus Metrics being consumed by the Analytics engine and therefore gene...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 2 Not under consideration

For instana to support monitoring of Solace

We are positioning Instana for their MQ, ACE, and Datapower, and in progress to work with them on POC, they requested Instana support for Solace and Axway.
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Sensor 2 Future consideration

renaming DB's

We love the new infrastructure view in instana and have been using the DB monitoring in particular. We've added 30+ db's and the information seems to be fine. Please see attached screenshots. The problem is that all of the db's in the list view cu...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Infrastructure / Sensor 0 Future consideration