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PINNED Configure maintenance flyouts
User interface settings include the option “Show maintenance notes”. How can I as onprem-backend administrator configure and switch on such flyouts to inform my users about upcoming maintenance?
PINNED Distribute the Instana kubectl plugin with Krew
Krew is a popular open source plugin manager for the kubectl command-line tool maintained by the Kubernetes SIG CLI community. The tool helps to discover, install, and update kubectl plugins by offering a centralised plugin repository. The usage o...

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Role Based Access Control - Add Functionallity to be able to limit access to specific Platforms (Vmware, HMC)

Hello.We would like to limit user access to see only specific applications and hosts. We create group and we can exclude/include scope for website, applications, mobileapps and kubernetes.But we cannot exclude Platforms view for HMC and Vmware. Re...
11 months ago in Instana / Access Control 1 Functionality already exists

Update log4j to 2.17.1 or newer version, and avoid of hardcode/embedded inside library

Best practice of programming is never embedded known library inside another library, but TADDM have a lot of binary containing other library, e.g. log4j. Please take a look of taddm-api-clients.jar, containing platform-logger.jar, log4j 1.x.jar. A...
almost 2 years ago in Tivoli Application Dependency Discovery Manager 1 Planned for future release

Openshift kubelet monitoring using Prometheus

I'm looking for a way to monitor the Openshift Prometheus metrics, more specifically the metrics that are exposed by kubelet. kubelet exposes a metric called 'kubelet_volume_stats_available_bytes', but i can't find it in the list of metrics that t...
6 months ago in Instana / Kubernetes / Sensor 0 Future consideration

Data Insight - Visualization of HTTP/S Routes - Reporting

Wanted to know if there was a way to display the traceroute that the HTTP poller uses in SevOne NMS, and if it can be displayed in a widget within DI. The idea is that we would be able to monitor the routes of 443 traffic internal to their geoloca...
6 months ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) / Network Management System (NMS) 1 Needs more information

Add User and Domain to Explore Area of Workload Designer.

Add User and Domain objects to the Explore Area in the Workload Designer. When opening the TWSd DWC Workload Design in v10.1, the Explore area displays boxes for objects listing how many there are of each object. You can easily click on any one of...
6 months ago in Workload Automation 1 Functionality already exists

retrieve more than 5 infrastructure metrics from API

We want to retrieve infrastructure metrics through API "//api/infrastructure-monitoring/metrics", but it's result only has 5 metrics. It must request api many times if we want to retrieve whole metrics of infrastructure. So, I suggest to this api ...
6 months ago in Instana / API-C 1 Future consideration

Limit NCIM Connectionpool in DASH

When having ITNM integrated into DASH, we can see quite a lot of connections going from the DASH server to the database. This is due to the connection pool being for the ITNM GUIs to connect to the database. We'd like to have an option to limit th...
over 5 years ago in Tivoli Network Manager 2 Not under consideration

Setting a TWS date parameter within Kubernates yaml file path on TWS script

We need to pass parameters to JCL during runtime, not only for a job, but for all jobs in general. Since the job is created directly by Kubernetes via the plug-in, the parameter given from JCL needs to be transferred to Job.yaml.
almost 2 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Planned for future release

Add Terraform Support for zCentric Agent and DWC

Simplify configuration and setup of Zcentric Agents and DWC on the Cloud
6 months ago in Workload Automation 2 Needs more information

Leading space in a seed file should generate an error

The problem was the empt line in the seed file or the space instead tab in this seed file makes the file finder not work. I suggest that this should generate a warning as nothing was detected by ITNM if this condition exists.
12 months ago in Tivoli Network Manager 0 Future consideration