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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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event that is triggered in case the oracledb sensor user is locked

If user is locked, no oracleDB metrics are available.
7 months ago in Instana / Sensor 1 Future consideration

Update SNMP (Under TRAPD) to accept more SNMPV3 protocols

Within SevOne's SNMPV3 setup, (TrapD) only the following protocols are allowed to accept traps generated by SNMP : DES, AES128, AES192, and AES256. 3DES encryption is not a "supported protocol" to accept generated SNMP Traps inbound into SevOne......
7 months ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 0 Future consideration

Expose/Create a SevOne metadata field which contains the name of the SevOne NMS which is polling the device.

The Peer/Poller metadata field can be used to create device groups. Currently in the DI metadata report, there is a metadata field called the Peer Name / Poller Name which contains the name of the NMS system which 'owns' the device. However this m...
7 months ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 1 Future consideration

Can we add the direct link to automation library on RNA

Adding a direct link towards RNA automation library updates site directly on the the Pliant integrations page ( https://automation-library.ibm.com/templates )
7 months ago in Rapid Infrastructure Automation 1 Future consideration

It would be nice if we can get alert upon heap dumps creation on IBM WAS

A banking customer has requested the ability to monitor or receive alerts when a heap dump is created, but we currently lack this capability. Given this request, I’m considering suggesting to the customer, and potentially other clients, that they ...
7 months ago in Instana / Infrastructure 1 Future consideration

We would like for the default comparison operator in Maintenance mode to default to the "in" operator.

Per our NOC, they would find it easer to setup Maintenance Mode when the default operator is set to "in" rather than the "=". Please reference IBM PMR Case TS016792091.
7 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

NodeJS npm @instana/collector – deno support

Currently, there isn't native support for the @instana/collector package in Deno, as Deno handles npm packages differently than Node.js, particularly when it comes to lifecycle scripts like the ones required by the @instana/collector. These script...
7 months ago in Instana / Node 1 Future consideration

Update ITM Situation Forwarder

hasn't been updated since 6.3.0.7-TIV-ITM-SP0003 and its functionality depends on a 32-bit version of libnsl, which has been dropped in newer versions of Operating Systems, e.g. SLES 15, RHEL 8.Thus, (ITM Situation Forwarder) stops to work when OS...
7 months ago in ITM/IBM APM 1 Future consideration

post action file transfer

Per ogni file trasferito tramite un job chiediamo che venga eseguito immediatamente la propria post action senza attendere il transfer di tutti i file del job.
7 months ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

Kafka topic lag data is unusable in its current state

The way that kafka topic lag data is represented within Instana makes it virtually unusable. The reason is that each topic is listed independently. There is no way to apply general rules to the data. For example, if I try to create an Event agains...
7 months ago in Instana / Sensor 1 Future consideration