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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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Disable normal user login / automatically purge users from User DB

Customer wants to enable SSO. When they do this, they want to make sure that existing Instana users can no longer login with they email/password, and that new users can no longer create regular logins (only login via SSO).Once the user is deleted ...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Access Control 3 Functionality already exists

Alert if a file is created

Get an alert if a file is created in a mount/directory/drive for example if a .dmp file is created in windows etc.
over 1 year ago in Instana / Alert / Sensor 0 Future consideration

Ability to create SmartAlert based of the executed Analyse query

When in unbounded analytics finding an "interesting" situation it would be practical to directly create a SmartAlert based on this to be alerted in case such situation arises again,
about 2 years ago in Instana / Alert 1 Not under consideration

Move enable/disable disruptive actions from Policy wide to action type

The option to enable/disable disruptive actions policy-wide is very restrictive. Most downscale actions are disruptive, but most upscale actions can be non-disruptive. In the current implementation, only a group of VM can be marked with this setti...
about 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 1 Not under consideration

Convert "Smart Alert" into "Global Smart Alert" and vice versa

Sometimes Instana users own more than one application perspective. Suppose they already defined a smart alert on one ap and later want to apply the same configuration also on other ap(s). Then it would be helpful to have a button in the UI, that a...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Alert / Extend Capabilities 2 Not under consideration

An option during the upgrade or uninstall of an agent to only choose the Dynamic Agent and not the FTA

During the installation of an agent, an option is available (-agent dynamic|fta|both) to choose which type of agent to install, either a Dynamic Agent (DA) or an Fault-Toerant Agent (FTA). A similar option must exist for upgrade (-update) and unin...
about 1 year ago in Workload Automation 2 Functionality already exists

Top database & container pod information bulk download function

If we download from the Top Virtual Machines widget, we can download all virtual machine information at once.However, in the case of Top Container Pods , workload Controllers , Container Specs , Namespace , Databases,We can only download 50 pieces...
about 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 0 Future consideration

Send application monitoring events via kafka topic to Instana

data ingestion/consumption to Instana from Kafka Producers.Use case is that application like ibm biz hub is producing and propagating monitoring data via kafka topic and Instana could be used for monitoring via kafka topic and also existing agent ...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 3 Future consideration

Automatic rebuild topological view after discovery

After run of discovery we need the automatic update of topological view for include new devices discovered. See also further datail in reported case.
over 3 years ago in Tivoli Network Manager 1 Functionality already exists

installation improvement for LDAP

Today we solved the ldap authentication problem. It was due to a conflict of two users with the same username in two different user repositories: basic and LDAP. Since there is no more a local user repository in Liberty a copy of your real install...
over 1 year ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration