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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?

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Human time readable format instead of Unix time format in CSV download

Data insight is the visualisation later for the metric collected by SevOne. All reports are meant to be consumed by the customers in a graphically appealing visual format. While downloading the exported data in the csv format, the timestamp should...
11 months ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) 1 Delivered

ITNM 4.2.0.7:Alcatel SAM 5620 Collector : Connect to Multiple EMS's

We are using Alcatel5620Sam Java collector to connect to single EMS and able to download topology successfully. Currently in customer environment, Nokia NFM-P EMS has been configured with High Availability so that any of the one instance will be i...
about 4 years ago in Tivoli Network Manager 1 Delivered

Support for GPU instances in Azure environments

Similar to AWS, Azure also has instances that use GPUs, but they are not supported yet. Some customers operate LLM applications with AKS, so support that kind of environment is appreciated.
7 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Target Support 0 Delivered

Instant Client for Oracle 19 in ITNM

ITNM installs the client to connect to database for access the NCIM tables. For Oracle, having it installed and upgraded from 4.2.0.3 to 4.2.0.11 (with many steps in-between over the years), I see two clients at $NCHOME/precision/platform/linux2x8...
over 3 years ago in Tivoli Network Manager 0 Delivered

ITNM Configuration Utility - Extend Database Finder to have GUI configuration

Please extend the Database Finder to have a GUI based configuration so that it's easier to define custom databases, columns and attributes to enable data retrieval as a feed to Discovery.
8 months ago in Tivoli Network Manager 0 Delivered

Instead of INSTANA_IGNORE=true, customer would like to have an opt-in approach for monitoring java processes

We have a customer that is trying to monitor java. By default, Instana auto-instruments everything within the kubernetes cluster. The customer doesn't want everything instrumented because it can have an impact on the application performance. I tol...
4 months ago in Instana / Java 4 Delivered

Multiple Resource Graph should have 3 day drop down range - in between Last 24 Hours and Last 7 Days

So Turbo keeps data per hour for the last 72 hours - then rolls it up. So it's a VERY USEFUL graph to look back at the last 3 days because it's the maximum duration to see data by the hour. The customer is looking at graphs for hours a day - and u...
about 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 5 Delivered

#EMEA #SPGI Add support for PHP 8.1

Durign a PoC with a public transport agency in Spain we have discovered that Instana does not support PHP 8.1, most of their develepment is based on PHP frameworks so not having this tracing capability for this version of PHP does not allow them t...
over 2 years ago in Instana / PHP / Tracing 8 Delivered

Full support for sensors to run under a non-root account

Regarding IBM APM today: - For various company support and security reasons, we have all the agents running under a non-root account on AIX and Linux hosts with limited sudo setup required. Limited sudo setup in the sense where only dedicated full...
over 1 year ago in Instana 0 Delivered

while ASM NFVD observer to consume V2 LCM message or from API, If we receive response without vm name name of the vm need to be updated by vm-id

As per standard SLO 3 LCM message format, we are not receiving the vm-name, so we need to update vm-id in the name attribute
8 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Delivered