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We need an alternative to the Hashicorp vault

I continue to run into more customers that demand a vault other than Hashicorp as a way to securely store credentials for the configuration.yaml file. Previously, I opened this idea, but it was rejected: https://ideas.ibm.com/ideas/INSTANA-I-271 I...
9 months ago in Instana / Agent 0 Not under consideration

Being able to select a specific month to drop IT Planning files

Being able to select a specific month to drop IT Planning files vs only having it send to January and replacing monthly files. When loading files from ITP to CT would like the flexibility to have it drop in different months. For example Jan – drop...
about 1 year ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Not under consideration

Custom Event multiple conditions

This is a follow up to Aha Idea 729 which requested multiple conditions on a custom event. This is now available. However, it does not address our Use Cases, primarily as ita) It only allows multiple conditions on a single Entity typeb) only allow...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Alert 2 Not under consideration

Deploy different instana-agent.customresource.yaml in k8s worker nodes

Hi, Based on the fact that not all the worker nodes run the same applications and ca be different between each others, it can be needed yo deploy different configuration.yaml files based on the needs. For example, put some custom tags inside some ...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Agent 2 Not under consideration

Add agent support for Solaris Branded zones

FTAs and DAs are supported on Solaris native Global and Local zones, but are not currently supported on Solaris Branded zones.
over 1 year ago in Workload Automation 1 Not under consideration

nco_p_huawei_u2000_corba - No Filtration properties available on subscribing to Event Notifiation

Probe - nco_p_huawei_u2000_corbaUnlike other CORBA probes where we have the option of filtering the alarms while subscribing to the real time alarms/Notification IRP services. nco_p_huawei_u2000_corba doesn't provide any options/properties to subs...
about 4 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 2 Not under consideration

IBM SevOne NMS upgrades should allow for limit or throttling of ssh connections

During a production upgrade for IBM SevOne NMS, a Palo Alto Networks firewall adaptive security policy automatically blocked traffic between IBM SevOne NPM peers due to excessive network traffic on TCP port 22. SevOne NPM uses Ansible to perform c...
3 months ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 2 Not under consideration

Add support for IBM PowerVS

A certain customer in Japan has finished Turbonomic's PoC and they found some Turbonomic's issues. I would like to describe one of them here. Turbonomic doesn't support Power VS now. They hope Turbonomic will support it. The customer is considerin...
over 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Target Support 1 Not under consideration

Provide more smart alert state controls

Smart Alerts have evaluation (frequency) and number of occurrences but does not have escalation past the warning to critical. State Shifts good - warning good - critical warning - critical warning - good critical - warning critical - good And the ...
3 months ago in Instana / Alert 1 Not under consideration

On-prem agent to ensure no data loss even there is Internet failure or connectivity issues

Customer is on Instana SaaS. Customer environment has frequent internet connectivity failures. In such cases, the Instana agent deployed is not able to send the data collected to Instana SaaS for the duration of the connection failure. To address ...
7 months ago in Instana / Agent 1 Not under consideration