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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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Use DNS lookup in SevOne-fix-hosts-file

The SevOne-fix-hosts-file script currently uses SSH to get the hostname of each server in the cluster. In a large cluster, this script can take 2-3 hours to complete. Changing from a repetitive SSH to a DNS lookup cuts down the time considerably.
over 1 year ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 0 Future consideration

TSA takeover by force sequence change request

TSA timeout occurred between DB2 servers (#1 Primary and #2 Secondary) , after this timeout #2 Secondary issued 'takeover by force' command to #1 Primary.Then, #2 became Primary and acknowledged #1 Primary was active (split brain) because the conn...
over 5 years ago in Tivoli System Automation 4 Not under consideration

Limit what files are copied per pod by instana-instrumentation-init

The typical duration of instana-instrumentation-init is 2 seconds. This becomes an issue during node consolidation and when pods are moved to a new node. I’ve analysed the reason for this slow performance, and it is likely due to the init containe...
12 months ago in Instana / Kubernetes 6 Functionality already exists

Support CISCO Intersight as Target

CISCO is moving customer away from the legacy UCS Manager solution to their InterSight solution. We no longer have access to UCS Manager in our new UCS environment. So, we will need Turbonomic to start supporting CISCO InterSight as a target in or...
6 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Target Support 0 Future consideration

Implement SCIM

Although Instana implements some SSO, it doesnt cover the full user lifecycle. We would like to see SCIM implemented so that users who fall out of scope of the SAML (in our case) application are also deleted in Instana. At the moment its a semi ma...
6 months ago in Instana / Access Control 1 Not under consideration

IBM Runbook Automation (RBA) - conditional logic in the runbook/automation editor

Why is it useful? - Right now RBA allows no custom conditional logic to chain together runbooks/automations, which is handy to build end-to-end automation workflow. Who would benefit from it? - All customers of RBA, everyone would be able to build...
over 1 year ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Planned for future release

Access to Maintenance Mode via API

As of now in IBM Watson, we don't an option to access Maintenance Window via API.. its accessible only via the DASH console so we need an option to access Maintenance Mode via API to invoke it in the script.
12 months ago in Cloud Pak for Multicloud Management Ideas 1 Not under consideration

Enable support for Tetrate Istio Side-Car tracing

Hi Team, Arlo has submitted a request to implement a support feature that involves tracing the envoy-proxy container. The request is documented under the support ticket number TS013593419. The support feature is required to be based on Tetrate Ist...
12 months ago in Instana / C / Team Proxies 0 Future consideration

"Select All" doesn't select All

While working with Wells Fargo on their new Turbo deployment, we were going through and running plans and after running through many plans, we realized that there were not near as many vm's in the plans as their should be. We went back and went th...
12 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Planning 1 Future consideration

New Logging feature available for docker-based on-prem installation

According to this: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=premises-installing-instana-backend-kubernetesopenshift#61-logging-beta it is only possible to enable this if using the Operator.Could we please document how to set...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Logging / Self Hosted 4 Not under consideration