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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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Include a simple method to import AD/LDAP certificates for external authentication

The current method to import the LDAP certificate to allow for external AD authentication is extremely complex, cumbersome, time consuming, and error prone. Multiple troubleshooting sessions are needed at times to figure out how to get the certifi...
about 1 month ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Authentication & Security 1 Future consideration

Need OTEL Contrib Collector for AIX and Solaris

Need OTEL Contrib Collector for AIX and Solaris
about 2 months ago in Instana / Logging 0 Submitted

Certificate the integration between Netcool Omnibus JDBC Gateway and OCI (Oracle Cloud Infrastructure)

The customer wants to integrate the Netcool Omnibus Gateway JDBC (NOI 1.6.11 on-premise) to OCL (Oracle Clous Infrastructure Oracle 19). we create the case TS015960524 and IBM support says that the Netcool JDBC Gateway is not certificated and not ...
6 months ago in AIOps Integrations 0 Under review

Kafka topic lag data is unusable in its current state

The way that kafka topic lag data is represented within Instana makes it virtually unusable. The reason is that each topic is listed independently. There is no way to apply general rules to the data. For example, if I try to create an Event agains...
11 days ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Submitted

AIOps license utilisation in UI

Customers need to see the AIOps license utilisation, number of managed devices, client devices, and logs processed in GB. This will help customer for budgeting next yeat license purchase.
12 days ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review

Need a way to disable GeoDB database for air-gapped environments

Dear colleagues, Customer uses custom deployment of Instana in air-gapped environment, they see error tat GeoDB database can’t be loaded in eum-acceptor, self-monitoring agent reports it to dashboard and this way the event started to bother them. ...
22 days ago in Instana / Self Hosted 0 Future consideration

Custom events to support dynamic macros

Today, when we create custom event, we specify the title and description along with the event trigger criteria. Based on the trigger, event with the given title is created. And we see multiple events with same title, based on how many such events ...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Alert 0 Submitted

Enable users to change the data reference period (currently less than 90 days) to any days up to 1 year at minimum, upon generating Actions.

Original Request from the customer.------------------------- Enable users to change the data reference period (currently less than 90 days) to any days up to 1 year at minimum, upon generating Actions. Question by IBM team.------------------------...
9 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 3 Not under consideration

update the Workload Improvements Charts to include what a workload is.

Customers want to track licenses - and often think they can use the workload chart to do so - but they cannot. A separate Idea for Enhancement will be added today. If the documentation was updated to include the following - it would add clarity. A...
about 1 month ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Documentation 1 Needs more information

Place holder for "offline" Event types

We have created alert based on "Offline" event, if a service goes down. But we need to insert a "place holder" so that it shows us what is the service which went offline in subject line or heading. This will help us identifying quickly what servic...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Application perspectives 0 Submitted