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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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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

ScopeBasedGrouping GUI should expose the Policy Name to the parent event of the group

The GUI available in DASH/WebGUI to configure a policy for Scope Based Groups should expose the policy name to the parent event. Otherwise it is not possible to associate any further logic to the group or its parent event.It's probably relatively ...
almost 4 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 1 Planned for future release

Custom Report sharing

Today Reports that come with the product is shared amongst Tenants. When a user in a Tenant run a report, the report is run with that Tenants context in mind, and for example a Virtual Machine report displays the VMs the Tenant has access to, and ...
7 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review

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

NewRelic Alerts suppression when PMC stop virtual machines

We have configured virtual machines with NewRelic alerts and integrated with SNOW. So whenever the VM powered off, a NewRelic alert will be triggered and a SNOW incident also created. So we want PMC talk to NewRelic to suppress the alerts before P...
about 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Custom Workflows 0 Planned for future release

NameSpace, Node Label Group Tag & AppCat Tags: Reports

Need to have Tag columns in the NameSpace widget view and downloaded spreadsheet view to be able to sort capacity by Node Label Group tag & by AppCat tag. Otherwise this is a tedious process to show the total AppCat's NameSpace Usage by Node L...
about 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Container Platforms (K8s & OpenShift) 2 Future consideration

Trigger alert from offline event only if there was no restart after a configurable amount of time

Currently, if I create an alert based on an offline event, the alert will immediately be triggered when the entity goes offline. Often an entity is only restarted, so if an alert is generated that would be a false alert. Instead it should be possi...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Alert / Infrastructure 1 Planned for future release