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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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Sensor for Redhat RHEV

Sensor for the discovery of 'Red Hat Virtualization' RHV - formerly known as RHEV (RHEV-H, RHEV-M).
almost 7 years ago in Tivoli Application Dependency Discovery Manager 1 Delivered

Health Monitoring of Turbonomic

Would like to have better visibility into the health states of the Turbonomic appliance itself. Pod statuses, excessive restarts, directories filling, and a way to ticket on these events through SNMP or another method.
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / General/Other 1 Delivered

Regex support for "Account" group filter

When selecting accounts (or Azure subscriptions) for a particular VM group, we sometimes want to create a large scope. We have over 160 accounts in our environment and we like to have a group scoped to non-production and production. To create thos...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud IaaS 1 Delivered

Ability to not create additional interfaces seen by Sflow.

With traditional NetFlow, there is an option in cluster manager to "Not create Ingress/Egress records". This limits the interfaces created by the NMS to only those interfaces forwarding flows. This option does not exist or work for Sflow. If you a...
10 months ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 1 Delivered

Export data to CSV

Our users need to extract data from instana to generate report for SLA to our clients. So we 'd like to have a button "export Data" from the analytic view to get data. Regards
over 2 years ago in Instana / Infrastructure 2 Delivered

Support for Instana agent in AWS ROSA (Red Hat OpenShift Service on AWS) & Azure ARO (Azure Red Hat OpenShift)

Two major customers wants to monitor CP4I components (API Connect, MQ, ACE, etc.) with Instana, which is supported.CP4I is installed on managed OpenShift in AWS ROSA (Red Hat OpenShift Service on AWS) and Azure ARO ((Azure Red Hat OpenShift).The I...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Agent 1 Delivered

Implement ElasticSearch Index Rotation

Currently there is no mechanism to clean up ElasticSearch Indices. That means the grow infinitely and searches will slow down. IBM provides scripts to clean up this indices with the delete_by_query api which deletes all documents older than a spec...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Metric Store 2 Delivered

Add TADDM support to discover RHEL version 9.2 targets

The GA Release for RHEL 9.2 was May 2023. We are already doing the preparation to deploy it in our environment, and we need to qualify TADDM discovery on RHEL 9.2 targets.
over 1 year ago in Tivoli Application Dependency Discovery Manager 0 Delivered

Use portworx for DB2

Today it is necessary to use local storage support for DB2 while all other PODs use Portworx. Apparently this is due to performance limitations. I dont believe this is a valid solution as this adds more complexity to the system while removes featu...
over 3 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 3 Delivered

AIX - Add additional memory insights

Today, if we look at an AIX host within Instana, all it shows is memory consumed. It doesn't show any other memory metric trends (like paging, swap, etc.). Having this insight is key to us migrating to IBM Instana from IBM APM, which does show the...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Sensor 1 Delivered