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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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Better control over snmp polling for big network devices

ITNM has two different strategies for polling interfaces depending on the use of a polling filter: - Strategy 1 (when no polling filter is defined): poll all OIDs for each interface. - Strategy 2 (when a polling filter is defined): group multiple ...
almost 3 years ago in Tivoli Network Manager 0 Delivered

Upgrade TEPS - Embedded Jetty Version

As per recent security scan report Jetty Version 6.1.x ( TEPS - Embedded Jetty Version) was detected and pointed out as "Out dated version" and suggested for up-gradation to the latest version. Could please upgrade / release the latest TEPS - Embe...
about 5 years ago in ITM/IBM APM 5 Delivered

ITCAM Agent for SAP Applications with SNC - Multiple SAP NetWeaver FC SDK libraries versions

Hello, I suggest to make the latest ITCAM agent compatible for multiple SAP NetWeaver FC SDK libraries versions. For example: SAP NetWeaver FC SDK libraries version 7.50 PL14 is not certified in latest SAP agent 711FP8 release. It should only work...
4 months ago in ITM/IBM APM 2 Delivered

Want to see if it might be possible to do "forcive"/"planning" sizing

Would like to see if there might be a way to force sizing actions when needed . Have several situations where we want to do **non-usage based sizing** what I call = "planning sizing" . Use cases are - where app owners have done load testing and kn...
8 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM 4 Delivered

Wildcard to specify activeJobs:jobs & inactiveJobs

In the activeJobs:jobs section and inactiveJobs section, currently we need to specify job number. Customer need option to not specify the job number or to use wildcard, because job number can change all the time and customer cant keep on changing ...
over 1 year ago in Instana / IBM i / Sensor 3 Delivered

enable the ingestion of Azure SQL Managed Instances

Turbonomic currently ingests some Azure SQL PaaS, but not all. SQL Managed Instances are a class that should be included.

Custom event for disk status

Customer is looking to replace existing tool with Instana for IBM i monitoring. They are currently using an event trigger when disk is not found which is not currently possible with Instana. This request is to support custom event wherein customer...
2 months ago in Instana / IBM i 1 Delivered

Capability to add freeform text and snap to grid on Network View

Looking for capability to add freeform text in network view for some additional information on Network View , also capability to snap to grid on placement of object in network view.
almost 4 years ago in Tivoli Network Manager 2 Delivered

Custom polling rate for MSSQL sensor

Our MSSQL experts noticed that on MSSQL servers, some requests are executed by the agent every second. This is currently expected, as per https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=technologies-monitoring-microsoft-sql-server....
about 1 year ago in Instana / Sensor 1 Delivered

Add node_module prom-client to synthetic-pop-javascript-playback-engine

Intro: This idea, makes alot of sense for people that wants to use synthetic checks to query a prometheus endpoint. Implementation from your side is simply add the prom-client module in synthetic checks pods. Description: If you add the prometheus...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Synthetic 3 Delivered