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Autometic Geo failover of Two separate MCM environments - how we can failover agents without a post-configuration script such as 1) using the same custom certificate and 2) DNS hostname change with the same ip address.

Geo failover prevents a single point of failure. Using the same custom certificate for two different MCM environments gives active/active or active/passive failover mechanism for uninterrupted 24X7 monitoring.
10 months ago in Cloud Pak for Multicloud Management Ideas 1 Not under consideration

Enhancement request to take an action when all rerun attempts got completed using Event rule.

1. IWA to invoke Python script only after final attempt of re-run of a given job fails a. We need to submit script using adhoc job in event rule whenever there is a job ABEND, when all the automatic reruns/ iterations are completed. b. Currently t...
10 months ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

Enhancement request to remove character limitation of event rules for variable resolution.

a. We need adhoc job having a Meaning full name, b. Tried to pass the actual job name, but we can't run multiple jobs with same job name, due to iteration we need multiple triggers. c. To add dynamic value along with Job name due to 40character li...
10 months ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

Smart Alert should not be closed after 03 hours if still true.

Scenario:We are monitoring an endpont that should raise an alert if no calls received during 10 minutes.The problem is that the Smart Alert is being closed after 3 hours as we learned from Instana support as hard coded "give up" time even though t...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Alert 4 Not under consideration

Citrix Hypervisor Monitoring

Thinking if a sensor could be able to consume RRDsCustomers can monitor the performance of their Citrix Hypervisor servers and Virtual Machines (VMs) using the metrics exposed through Round Robin Databases (RRDs). Here is the link for details: htt...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Future consideration

Autoprofile support when using the instana lambda extension

We instrument our node based AWS lambdas by using the instana lambda extension. If technically feasible, it would be nice to have support for AutoProfile when using this sensor.
over 1 year ago in Instana / Tracing 0 Not under consideration

Ability to hide the menu items 'Trigger Config Backup' and 'Trigger Config Restore' on the Resource Browser

Ability to hide the menu items 'Trigger config backup' and 'Trigger config Restore' via an activity set via account management.
almost 5 years ago in Tivoli Netcool Configuration Manager 1 Planned for future release

Have Turbonomic ignore DRS constraints if DRS is turned off on the cluster

I have some move policies that are failing to produce actions due to a restriction on "Segmentation Commodity" type constraint, built off of DRS rules imported from vCenter. However, even after I turned DRS off, it is still restricting the VMs eve...
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 1 Is a defect

Specify multiple threshold values, to have different during day/night

Our network traffic pattern is similar to a sine-cure. During the day, around 100 000 request and during the night, around 20 000 calls. The reason for this pattern, is simply that our end-users are sleeping during the night thus, a less number of...
10 months ago in Instana / Alert / Real User Monitoring 2 Not under consideration

AWS discovery sensor to support AWS temporary credentials, not just long term credentials

There are 2 types of credentials available when accessing AWS' public URL - temporary, and long term. My organisation, in consultation with AWS, have implemented an AWS security policy that only allows the use of temporary access credentials.Since...
10 months ago in Tivoli Application Dependency Discovery Manager 0 Planned for future release