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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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Enhance Google Cloud Storage (GCS) Integration Plugin to Support Uploading Files into Specific Bucket Folders

Currently, the Google Cloud Storage integration plugin (version 10.2.0.04) successfully uploads files directly to the root level of a specified GCS bucket. However, it lacks the capability to upload files into a specific folder (or prefix/subdirec...
3 months ago in Workload Automation 1 Delivered

Instana's capability to ingest storage speed metrics from IBM i's host

Summary: Why is it useful? This will help clients to quickly detect and identify when something is wrong with their IBM i system especially when it has something to do with storage (read and write speed, causing slowness) Who would benefit from it...
9 months ago in Instana / IBM i 1 Delivered

Add support for multiple ObjectServers in Runbook Automation (Netcool Impact)

Our customer is extending their Netcool landscape to integrate several sites into one centralized stack. Doing so, multiple ObjectServer (one pair per site) will be connected to this centralized approach, resulting in a need for Impact to support ...
over 4 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 2 Delivered

Instana monitoring agent for IBM Datapower physical appliance

Currently IBM Datapower monitoring is available only for below setup 1. DataPower in a virtual machine2. DataPower in a Kubernetes cluster3. DataPower in a Docker container But it is not available for IBM Datapower physical appliance setup. Many c...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Agent / Sensor 0 Delivered

Add support for SHA256 encryption for SNMPv3 discovery and polling in ITNM

We all need a good hash encryption algorithm in SNMPv3. SHA 1 is likely to be broken and all the NE vendors and security policies are moving to SHA2. We opened the case TS007203260 recently and we were told that SHA256 support is not planned for t...
almost 4 years ago in Tivoli Network Manager 2 Delivered

Create alerts based on logs

Possibility to create alerts (custom or Smart) based on logs filter.
over 2 years ago in Instana / Logging 4 Delivered

Make regionMap available through target addition page

Today when adding an AWS target, is the customer's SCP policies do not allow access to all regions (which is the case for 75%+ customers), they need to edit the regionMap to specify which regions they support. This has to be done through swagger a...
10 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Target Support 1 Delivered

Ability to pass details on service when an alert is triggered for custom events/built-in events

Need ability to pass details on service when an alert is triggered for custom events/built-in events. Required format - subject line+ service name.
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 5 Delivered

Displaying Discounted Rates in Turbonomic Dashboard

From customer perspective, the savings that are presented in Turbonomic Dashboard do not reflect the actual savings as these savings are compared against the advertised rates. However, typically, customer has savings plans and discounted rates and...
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Billing & Costs & Discounts 0 Delivered

Turbonomic VLAN ID Merge and Mapping for vCenter portgroups with different names but same VLAN IDs

Our superclusters are spread between two VDS within vCenter, 1 for our legacy 10gbe network and the other for our 25gbe ACI network. vCenter requires the port group names to be unique and the unique naming is preventing Turbonomic from merging the...
over 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM 4 Delivered