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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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Mobile Layer DNS break requires just like Web layer request DNs Capture

As we have the mobile app and webapp we wanted to traces the DNS for web and mobile breakups for the mobile app and web app,
7 days ago in Instana / SRE 0 Submitted

Expanding Authentication Methods for ScienceLogic integration

This Idea adds additional Authentication methods to the existing Science Logic integration. Based on the existing provided documentation: https://docs.sciencelogic.com/dev-docs/rest_toolkit_101/authentication/index.html , the following authenticat...
7 days ago in Rapid Infrastructure Automation 0 Under review

Distributed tracing up till the last tier

As we have the latency monitoring in instana, But we could not able to see the End to end tracing in the instana. Some exaples like if the Mobile user is requeted and we want to see the compplete behaviour and request time and response time on eac...
7 days ago in Instana / Other Tracers 0 Submitted

New user role - with permissions between Automator and Site administrator

A client has requested a new user role, with permissions between Automator and Site administrator. The idea is to have a user role with the permissions to manage the policies and to execute actions. Nowadays the Automator can execute the actions b...
7 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Authentication & Security 0 Submitted

Event Creation based VIOS/LPAR State (pHMC Plugin) on Instana

The customer has enabled the pHMC plugin for Instana and started to get the "State" of their Logical Partitions and VIOs' states. However they are not able to create event based on this state. However to retire their legacy monitoring systems, the...
8 days ago in Instana / IBM Power 0 Submitted

Monitoring Virtual Target Device Span (VTD Span) on VIOs with Instana

With Instana IQM bundle, the customer would like to monitor if VTD (Virtual Target Disk) is mapped to Multiple Disks on VIOs. With the PMR TS019458836, IBM informed the customer that with current versions of Instana IQM bundle, it is not possible ...
8 days ago in Instana / IBM Power 0 Submitted

Adding Details on Instana Grafana Plugin Legend Format

On Instana Grafana plugin's legend format, the customer would like to retrieve the infrastructure details such as FQDN name, deployment name, pod name, container name. As soon as they only able to retrieve the MAC address, it wouldn't help to make...
8 days ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 0 Submitted

Request for Dual Stack Flow Processing – IPv4 and IPv6 Support

This enhancement would enable the customer to adopt and upgrade to an IPv6-based underlay alongside their existing Cisco SD-WAN service. Currently, Viptela supports only IPv4 traffic, and does not process IPv6 flows. This limitation becomes eviden...
13 days ago in SevOne / Software Defined WAN (SDWAN) 1 Under review

Update Reference Data on Plans to provide details of line items that will be deleted/changed

If there are some missing entries in current reference data from earlier uploaded reference data, the customer would like the option to have the Update reference data panel on plans show even the details of which specific entries/line items/rows w...
19 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Submitted

Request for ec2 permissions be added: DescribeInstances permission to be provided for all AWS linked accounts, which would be needed to determine whether a given instance was explicitly terminated.

The client was experiencing an issue with the recommendations that Cloudability shows. In the Optimize section there is a subsection called Rightsizing, which is where we can see the optimization recommendations based on the resources we have in t...
4 months ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 1 Functionality already exists