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Container - Bin packing recommendations

Clusters could be more optimized if the bin packing was optimized. It would be helpful to see recommendations that provided guidance to more optimally utilize clusters.
8 months ago in Cloudability / Container Reporting / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 0 Under review

Custom dashboard - last value

Through Prometheus, we are gathering in Instana a gauge metric that shows if an instance is active (1) or inactive (0). We'd like to show this value in a custom dashboard using a 'Big number widget' or a 'Top list widget'. It would be great if we ...
9 months ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities / User Interface 0 Future consideration

Align the data colors between 2 graphs in Container Cost Allocation >> Treemap page

The 2 visual components refer to the same data - but the colors for each component is different between them - which makes it harder for the user to track the data.
9 months ago in Cloudability / Container Reporting 1

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

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

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

Provide Customers the ability to apply a Lucene query or dynamic focus query to the Filter section of a custom dashboard widget

Customer would like the ability to apply a Lucene query or dynamic focus query to the Filter section of a custom dashboard widget. For example, one need for this would be for the Customer to set the country to "Oman" and also set the User ID to a ...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities / User Interface 2 Planned for future release

Optimize Load time for dependencies/Flow tab under application perspectives

We have observed that the dependency tab takes a large amount of time to load when we select the time window as 1 week. We do not expect this to happen as analysis of the flows is crucial to identify impact if a service goes down and historical in...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 2 Not under consideration

Preserve comments in ITNM's config files

When saving changing to a configuration file via the Discovery Configuration GUI, custom comments within the header of the document are lost.
almost 10 years ago in Tivoli Network Manager 2 Not under consideration