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Ability to select local region to deploy ARM SaaS

Many customers in Japan are required to keep their data locally for security and data sovereignty reasons. Several prospects have already asked if ARM SaaS can be deployed in the local region. This is probably the same case for some of the EMEA co...
about 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / SaaS 5 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...
about 3 years ago in Tivoli Network Manager 2 Delivered

ITNM agents/stichers to discover Cisco Fabric Extender (FEX) data

Today FEX information that can be obtained from SNMP requests from Cisco devices is being ignored by the official IBM discovery agents and stitchers. Since this is official, standard data from Cisco devices, I see as counter-productive to have cus...
over 1 year ago in Tivoli Network Manager 0 Delivered

Include the cross-domain topology in the ncp_dla exported file

though the NCIM have cross-domain connections populated using cross-domain stitching. The ncp_dla does not fetch the cross-domain topology in the exported file. the cross-domain topology export is not implemented in ncp_dla.
over 1 year ago in Tivoli Network Manager 1 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...
3 months ago in ITM/IBM APM 2 Delivered

Monitoring K8s PVC Storage space

Hi! We need the ability to monitor storage in Kubernetes as per article: https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/storage/storage-capacity/ Instana Request #30622 was logged for additional documentation, but stated that it is not possible yet.
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Kubernetes 2 Delivered

Make Component discovery of fabric extender consistent

For Cisco Nexus Fabric extenders(FEX) attached to Nexus N9K switches (even with recent firmware), sometimes fabric extender elements were not discovered and the chassis element was not discovered. on other hosts, only the chassis element but no fa...
over 1 year ago in Tivoli Network Manager 0 Delivered

Update NetBox OSS integration

Update NetBox OSS REST API integration, the current NetBox integration is several year old and missing many APIs. https://demo.netbox.dev/api/schema/swagger-ui/
about 2 months ago in Rapid Network Automation 0 Delivered

Support Oracle Linux

We are a Financial sector company from Perú that has Oracle Linux Server (https://www.oracle.com/pe/linux/) as part of its production core infrastructure. It is important to monitor this technologies because we need to comply with auditing require...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Agent 6 Delivered

[Instana] Capture table name during batch writes operation

Currently, our system doesn't support capturing the table name for batch writes and we would like to benefit from this feature.
about 1 year ago in Instana / Tracing 2 Delivered