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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

Expose PHP FPM connectionResets metric

Currently it is not possible to add a custom event based on the connectionResets FPM metric. This would be important to us as the limits set by the default "Too many connections reset" FPM event are too low and we would like to customize it.
about 3 years ago in Instana / PHP 1 Not under consideration

SA-MP Support of concurrent LVM on AIX

We urgently needs the support of concurrent LVM on AIX
over 12 years ago in Tivoli System Automation 2 Not under consideration

In the Alleviate Pressure Plan the for the cold clusters the sorting order should be reversed to put green clusters at the top.

When utilizing the Alleviate Pressure Plan first a hot cluster is selected which is either a red, yellow, or orange cluster - which are sorted to the top for easy selection. On the next selection to select a cold cluster the sort order is the same...
about 3 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Planning 2 Not under consideration

Add directory / patch variable to one liner or silent agent installer

Please add the option to change the installation path of the agent when using the silent installer option, this is to allow us to automate installs using Ansible and apply our path standards that is required. It can be done on the GUI but we requi...
about 3 years ago in Instana / Agent 1 Not under consideration

J9 AppDynamics Accelerator for Predictive Insights

Predictive Insights J9 Accelerator for AppDynamics: When connecting to the AppDynamics controller on a scheduled query (example every 5 minutes) we need to control retries when connecting. If we cannot connect on the first attempt we must be able ...
about 6 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 2 Not under consideration