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PINNED Instana on OpenShift Route Flexibility
Hi, My customer has a question about Instana route definitions on OCP. Basically, they have an OCP console address like console-openshift-console.apps.ocpcluster.ibm.com. According to the document; - basedn URL should be like instana.apps.ocpclust...
PINNED Instana Backend on ARM
Some customer have the request to install Instana backend on their Server which is using the ARM architecture CPU.

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Ability to track Page Transitions & Geography details with automatic instrumentation

Automatic instrumentation provides an easy way to monitor websites with no extra configuration needed on the application/website pages. However, with this approach we are unable to track page transitions and geography details. It would be helpful ...
3 months ago in Instana / Real User Monitoring 0 Future consideration

Provide alternative to Multus for Cassandra replication

Bank of America is unable to leverage a Multus network on their OpenShift clusters in order to enable Cassandra replication for georesiliency. Full georesiliency for the datastores is an essential requirement for BofA to bring NOI / CP4AIOps into ...
3 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Planned for future release

Ability to not create additional interfaces seen by Sflow.

With traditional NetFlow, there is an option in cluster manager to "Not create Ingress/Egress records". This limits the interfaces created by the NMS to only those interfaces forwarding flows. This option does not exist or work for Sflow. If you a...
3 months ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 0 Future consideration

Suppoert Hardware Management Console (HMC) v9 and 10 or higher

I currently have lost the ability to discover HMC as the Unix admins have updated the product to v10. TADDM currenly only supports v8 or lower. Need to support v10+
3 months ago in Tivoli Application Dependency Discovery Manager 0 Under review

Cloud Pak for AIOPs Policy export/import feature doesn't exist

The customer installed Event Manager (NOI 1.6.8) on Openshift (hybrid deployment). They noticed that it is very difficult to review policies without import/export feature. Below is their feedback: "We discussed about an enhancement request of Wats...
4 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review

Increase Device inventory report raw limit more than 1000.

We have to schedule the device inventory report but facing following challenges . 1. NMS device inventory report limited to export 1000 raw ( devices ). 2. Metadata report from DI doesnt have the default fields like Device Availability which is a ...
4 months ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 0 Planned for future release

Enhance CP4AIOps to get topology data from Meraki devices

Meraki's marketshare has exploded in serving large enterprises with cloud-managed networking in the last 5 years. Meraki now accounts for 10-20% of Cisco's switching business revenue and it is considered a leader in Gartner's 2022 Magic Quadrant f...
4 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review

Prevent RESUBMIT job stream plug-in job type to submit same stream multiple times within same minute

We have recently experienced some mailbox.msg corruption issues which are documented under case #TS014467118.It was identified by HCL that the corruption is caused by the resubmit plug-in job type and occurs in memory.We really identified many RES...
4 months ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

Events (Syslog and SNMP Traps) parsing tool - Drag & Drop Capabilities

Why is it useful? Existing and new customers spend a lot of time doing the parsing of events received by generic probes (as syslog, snmp, glf, etc) since those include a generic rules file. However, most of them have custom Object Servers Columns ...
4 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review

Log message body information sent via OpenTelemetry

Forwarding Golang and Nodejs application logs which are deployed in Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service to Instana agent or Instana backend via fluentbit using OpenTelemetry exporter
4 months ago in Instana / Logging 7 Not under consideration