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Allow failover impact server in RBA configuration

When configuring RBA in a hybrid environment, with the Impact cluster on premise, there is only one option to configure the impact connection. There is no place to specify a backup server. if the primary impact server stopped, one would have to ...
almost 3 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 1 Not under consideration

Allow customization of name for traceId value in Java MDC

Instana automatically populates the MDC with the trace ID. The MDC variable name is instana.trace.id. See https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=technologies-monitoring-java-virtual-machine#logging-mdc-populated-with-the-t...
almost 3 years ago in Instana / Java 3 Not under consideration

Need VM and Volume group filter for entity criticality (for both on-prem and cloud)

Need VM and Volume group filter for entity criticality (for both on-prem and cloud) to be able to send only actions for certain groups of VMs and Volumes that are for performance to ServiceNow during a certain time frame and other actions that are...
almost 3 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 3 Not under consideration

When viewing a VM / Pod the user should have access to a terminal for access / running commands

When scoping to a VM / Pod we show actions that can be performed on the entities. However, some customers would also like to do some sort of independent debugging. If we have a terminal in the UI we can allow for the user to stay within Turbonomic...
almost 3 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 0 Not under consideration

Impersonation support for MCM APIs

I'd like to manage and provision software to a managed cluster through our MCM hub as the user requesting the software to prevent security issues arising from elevated privilege. For example, charts or operators that are configured to install to n...
almost 6 years ago in Cloud Pak for Multicloud Management Ideas 0 Not under consideration

Resource state at node start time

The original state of a resource (when a node first comes online or a domain comes online) is treated differently to a monitor command returning 0 (unknown) or a monitor timing out.With this running resources are stopped, whenthere is a dependency...
about 12 years ago in Tivoli System Automation 2 Not under consideration

Agent configuration file should support more alternative solutions to hide clear text passwords than HashiCorp Vault.

Security teams in enterprise customers are not approving passwords to be stored in clear text format in agent configuration yaml file. According to the current documentation of Instana, only solution provided to this issue is HashiCorp Vault (http...
about 3 years ago in Instana / Tracing 4 Not under consideration

Check the supplied hostname format before starting the install process.

When standing up a new Turbo VM from the OVA there is an option to run the ./t8c.sh script and pass a -h modifier followed by the desired host name of the VM - so it is not named the default node1. If a hostname is supplied with an improper format...
about 3 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / General/Other 1 Not under consideration

Allow for SAAccount access from Impact to MSSQL server using ms jdbc driver

Allow Impact to connect to MSSQL Server using JDBC driver via a service account in Active Directory.
about 6 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Not under consideration

Create a way to time out from for Netcool/OMNIbus Administrator

For security reasons, we need to guarantee that the Netcool Administrator Console will close automatically after a certain period. This will make the solution suitable for more rigid security procedures.
about 6 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 5 Not under consideration