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Process to clean up old entities from active devices

Once a device is discovered bu ITNM, it creates many entities in NCIM database, representing the device, interfaces etc. If any of those entities are not valid anymore (e.g., one of the interfaces is disabled), it is not deleted from the database....
over 3 years ago in Tivoli Network Manager 0 Delivered

Envoy proxy default address/port and sensor configuration

Preface: Currently monitoring envoy proxy metrics appears to REQUIRE setting the --admin-address-path command line flag. https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=technologies-monitoring-envoy-proxy#configuration Two ideas: S...
about 2 years ago in Instana / C / Team Proxies 2 Delivered

Message Bus Probe should expose endpoint to Rules File

Follow up for RFE 126508 / APAR IJ17178:Great that we now have the Sender of the request and that we no longer need to specify a fixed endpoint.But unfortunately, the endpoint (or the full URL) is not available as a Token variable in the rules fil...
about 5 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 3 Delivered

Improve the ITNM mustgather script and provide in the code with future fixpack releases

Currently the itnm_data.pl mustgather script is provided in a technote available for download here: https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/collect-data-ibm-tivoli-network-manager-ip We would like to see this included in the code so that it is available...
over 1 year ago in Tivoli Network Manager 2 Delivered

Enhancement for the quick search feature within the EventViewer

When events are grouped within the EventViewer, you can’t use the quick search to find events. Please have a look at the attached screenshots: eventViewer1.png: Framed pink are alle the events which are grouped underneath the top lovel event. filt...
about 3 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Delivered

Tibco EMS Monitoring: Change number of queues / topic

When monitoring Tibco EMS the maximum number of queues or topics which can be monitored are limited to 200. This should be changed to any value the customer might want to choose knowing the possible impact that might have.
about 2 years ago in Instana / Sensor 2 Delivered

Support Akamai authentication NodeJS module

Akamai requires that you use their own NodeJS module for authenticating to use their APIs - https://techdocs.akamai.com/developer/docs/authenticate-with-edgegrid I'm requesting that the official Akamai module gets added to the supported third part...
5 months ago in Instana / Synthetic 2 Delivered

Support IMDSv2 on AWS

AWS and security guidelines are pushing for IMDSv2 to improve the security posture and prevent credential exfiltration and information leakage through SSRF. https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/configuring-instance-metadata-service....
over 1 year ago in Instana / Sensor 1 Delivered

Problem to discover Serial Number, Manufacturer and vendor parameters for Tiesse devices

I'm trying to find the serial number, manifacture and vendor parameters of the Tiesse devices. I built the ad hoc agent but even if it does not give an error it does not extract the desired values.
over 2 years ago in Tivoli Network Manager 4 Delivered

Kong - Add support for missing metrics for admin token based authentication

According to the url - https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=technologies-monitoring-kong-api-gateway-open-beta#viewing-metrics the below metrics should be supported. We have observed that the below panels are not capturi...
11 months ago in Instana / Extend Domains / Platform Coverage / Sensor 3 Delivered