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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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Update kubernetes certificate when an instance is upgraded (OVA only issue)

I recently had an issue with a large financial customer where I made a license change and it caused the instance to show that none of the targets were validated any longer. After some troubleshooting, I found a certificate had expired. We worked w...
about 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Authentication & Security 9 Not under consideration

Monitoring of AWS MSK in Topics Level Metrics

Instana can currently monitor AWS MSK in the cluster and broker level of metrics only. To improve the AWS MSK monitoring quality, additional metrics in topics level with the following functions will definitely useful and helpful for the MSK opera...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Sensor 1 Planned for future release

Related Events: Do not suggest new groups covered by a deployed pattern

When new groups are discovered that match an existing pattern, they are not assigned to the existing pattern. This forces the users to move the pattern to new and then to deploy it again, so that new groups are assigned to the exsting pattern. The...
about 2 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

conman to authenticate users through WAS/WLP and retrieve LDAP group to user information and authorize using group in assigni

DWC and composer are able to authenticate LDAP users and authorize using LDAP groups and assign security roles accordingly, but conman doesn't authenticate using LDAP hence can't authorize using LDAP groups and assign security roles. Separate ACLs...
over 3 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Planned for future release

Customizing the icon for DASH console Integrations

There should be a way to customize the icon which is assigned to Console Integrations in Dash.This RFE is a result of an open case with IBM support regarding the need to customize the icon for the IBM Runbook Automation console integration. See us...
almost 4 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 1 Future consideration

TADDM integration with Ansible

Need an integration between TADDM and Ansible to support discovery of target endpoints (both Linux and Windows servers) located behind a firewall in the DMZ. IBM had previously suggested the use of BigFix for this task, but BigFix is non-strategic...
about 4 years ago in Tivoli Application Dependency Discovery Manager 2 Not under consideration

Enhancement to Scope-based Event Grouping

Enhancement to the scope-based event grouping extension to allow customization on the minimum number of traps for a synthetic event to be created. For example having grouping on a single trap doesn't really provide much benefit to end users. Addit...
over 4 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Planned for future release

Preserve comments in ITNM's config files

When saving changing to a configuration file via the Discovery Configuration GUI, custom comments within the header of the document are lost.
over 8 years ago in Tivoli Network Manager 2 Not under consideration

Cancelation of WebSphere batch job (wsgrid.bat) on Windows should invoke shutdown hook i java

Cancelling a WebSphere Batch job on Windows, a java.exe process started from the wsgrid.bat only kills the java process. The shutdown hook in java is not called and the job/step i the websphere bacth container is not interrupted/stopped. This is "...
over 8 years ago in Workload Automation 3 Not under consideration

Provide detailed user and usage statistics to satisfy internal audit requirements

Need to know detailed user metrics such as the last log on date, product metrics showing hourly and daily usage of the product for justification and audit. A way to look at usage trends and the number of concurrent logins over a trend. Ability to ...
over 9 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 7 Not under consideration