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A new ITNM Agent for vendor AKCP to do SNMP based discovery of all sensors supported by site device and build Site to Sensor Topology

Saudi Aramco want to build the end to end topology of the infra monitoring network and corresponding location hierarchy y starting from top level location Division , section , Area , Site and various sensors in each site where each site has a AKCP...
3 months ago in Tivoli Network Manager 0

ITNM polls end devices using multiple SNMP credentials to monitor their subcomponents effectively.

We have Customer Premises Equipment (CPEs) with multiple parts, such as firewalls and routers, that are monitored for their availability using ITNM's SNMP polling feature. Some newer models of these CPEs use NATed IPs, meaning their parts can only...
3 months ago in Tivoli Network Manager 2 Future consideration

Allow for full data retention greater than 30 days

As per Instana documentation, any value greater than 7 is supported for data retention settings. However, we were notified that 30 days is the maximum supported value by IBM Support team. We usually tend to keep the APM metrics for longer duration...
6 months ago in Instana / Self Hosted 0 Under review

Ability to export Forecast Variance Details in Cloud Financial Planning.

Customer would like ability to export Forecast Variance Details in CFP.
6 months ago in Cloudability / Planning 0 Future consideration

feature Budgets & Forecasting - remove Taxes on "Actual Cost"

When we forecasting, the actual cost brings taxes influencing all the cost values and forecasting itself. Our proposal is to remove taxes from this exercise NOTE: Already solved with business mapping and views
6 months ago in Cloudability / Planning 1 Future consideration

Add support for Kubernetes Hierarchical Namespaces (HNC)

Engineering/dev teams need to leverage HNC parent-child structure to manage k8s resources Enabling rollup of cost & usage data from the child to the parent level Engineering/dev teams should have the ability to drill down to the k8s component ...
3 months ago in Cloudability / Container Reporting 0 Submitted

Add "180 /365 days" and/or "any number of days" for Max Observation Period

Requests:.1.Add 180 days and 365 days to max observation period2.Make it possible to set any number of days for max observation period (e.g. 14 days, 60 days, etc.) Background:.Japanese customers often have stable system environments and request l...
over 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 1 Future consideration

Allow group filtering against another group

There is currently no good way (outside of tag modification) to quickly exclude an entity from Group A when including it into Group B. This results in a cumbersome process to exclude an entity from one group while including it in another group. Ad...
3 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 1 Future consideration

Need improved prereq checking for Standard Edition

There are a number of common problems that we've seen with customer installs where better prereq checking could have prevented an installation failure. We would like to see the prereq checker improved to check for additional prereqs. The following...
3 months ago in Instana / Self Hosted 3 Future consideration

Support Oracle Kubernetes Engine as platform for Custom Self-Hosted Instana backend

Dear Colleagues, we have a demand from our customer who is interested in running Instana on Oracle Kubernetes Engine. The reason for that is attempt to reduce operational costs as OKE is a corporate standard. Please consider adding support for OKE...
7 months ago in Instana / Self Hosted 1 Not under consideration