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PINNED Instana on OpenShift Route Flexibility
Hi, My customer has a question about Instana route definitions on OCP. Basically, they have an OCP console address like console-openshift-console.apps.ocpcluster.ibm.com. According to the document; - basedn URL should be like instana.apps.ocpclust...
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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Support for "Real" data type representation in the WebGUI

We need to have a "Real" data type on our object server which we will later use for creating a custom page and line chart graph on it. On the line chart graph, we need to put a latency param and latency threshold which both are real numbers (0.8, ...
8 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review

Allow filtration by entity type in Group Management page

We have tons of groups for all sorts of use cases. Currently there's only exact match search, which is not the best especially when there are so many to filter from and having all engineers keep track of all sorts of naming conventions is not simp...
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 3 Functionality already exists

Dedicated Sensor for Tomcat

Currently the only way to discover Tomcat is to use Custom Server templates. Unfortunately, information that can be collected by this method are limited. Because of that a Tomcat dedicated sensor is required.
over 6 years ago in Tivoli Application Dependency Discovery Manager 2 Not under consideration

Temporal policies (all policies) should be visible in 'Created by analy...' tab in Manage Policies

Temporal policies (all policies) should be visible in 'Created by analy...' tab in Manage Policies. We selected the 'review first' option for temporal grouping and all temporal policies are now visible in the Suggested tab. But ideally all policie...
over 1 year ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

To support HP-UX for installing agent with Unix

We wish to newly install an agent to a server whose OS is hp-ux. Currently, however, only Solaris and AIX can be chosen when we select "Unix" on the screen of "Installing Instana Agent". If you could support hp-ux as well, it'd be great for us and...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Agent 1 Not under consideration

Run cycle based on month

Hi In TWS z/OS we can define run cycle based on Monthname ( January .... ) It's not possible on TWSD Best regards
over 7 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Planned for future release

Snmpv3 -add support for HMAC-SHA authentication protocol

When the probe is set to receive SNMP v3 notifications, it is necessary to develop functionality for the probe to support Hash-based message authentication code (HMAC) - Secure Hash Algorithms (SHA) authentication protocol. We had requests from a ...
over 2 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

No tracking of user who executed a failed action

When someone execute some action on Turbonomic and this action fails (for any reason), the field that shows which user executed are not populated, even if we download the csv files. This lead to a security and behaviour track issues.
about 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 1 Is a defect

Improving Kubernetes Alerting

Status quo Built-in event ("Kubernetes Pod condition status") for when a Kubernetes pod reports 'Not Ready' state for more than one minute. Desired Ability to get alerted when pods created within last 30 minutes reports 'Not Ready' state for more ...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Alert / Kubernetes 0 Under review

Map Groups with SAML (Okta)

We have SSO setup for the Instana Backend using SAML with Okta. We would like to be able to map groups provided by the Idp to Instana roles/groups. The ability to map our internal LDAP groups to Instana groups would give us the ability to apply ac...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Access Control / Security and Compliance 2 Functionality already exists