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Easier agents update in air-gapped environment

Dear colleagues, our customer is using Instana in air-gapped environment. They had system administrators installed static instana agents and want simple procedure to upgrade them by Instana administrators who are responsible for Instana and agents...
8 months ago in Instana / Agent 1 Not under 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 7 years ago in Tivoli Network Manager 2 Not under consideration

At this time instana agent can not collect metrics from Postgresql Patroni cluster. I think this is good idea for implementation.

Patroni is an open-source tool designed for managing PostgreSQL high-availability (HA) clusters. It ensures that the database is always available by orchestrating failovers and managing replication among the nodes. To maintain a robust and reliabl...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Agent 1 Future consideration

Be able to monitor the windows process which doesn't have CommandLine attribute

Instana host sensor provide the ability to monitor the custom process via com.instana.plugin.process in configuration.yaml, however, there is limitation in windows platform. Host Sensor on Windows is comparing the string you specify in the configu...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Agent 1 Future consideration

MAG devices data need to be discovered using ITNM or ASM.It could be a new collector.

MAG devices data need to be discovered using ITNM or ASM.It could be a new collector.
9 months ago in Tivoli Network Manager 1 Planned for future release

"N" Number of agents should be update at once.

If we are changing the mode Auto/On in the com.instana.agent.main.config.UpdateManager.cfg file. The agent will take automatic update. But, The mode should be OFF only, because as per SMBC standards, for any updates we should follow change request...
9 months ago in Instana / Agent 1 Not under consideration

Upgrade of JBoss to RHEL supported version

When scanning vulnereability of our application server(s), we've noticed that JBoss 4.x is no longer supported by Red Hat, which caused vulnerability flags. We've been informed that JBoss itself is tightly integrated with TNPMW application, so upg...
over 4 years ago in Tivoli Network Manager 2 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...
about 5 years ago in Tivoli Network Manager 3 Not under consideration

Release card should be exportable to match the List view showing on the screen

Currently, when one exports a list view that includes the Release card, it exports every field on the card, not just fields on the list view. Other Entities are downloadable from a list 'as is'. Release should also be one. There can be many fields...
9 months ago in Targetprocess / Data Import and Export 0 Under review

Automatic rebuild topological view after discovery

After run of discovery we need the automatic update of topological view for include new devices discovered. See also further datail in reported case.
over 4 years ago in Tivoli Network Manager 1 Functionality already exists