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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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Granular resizing automation policies for Cloud Volume and DBs similar to 'Scale for Performance/Savings' settings for Cloud VMs

As a user, I would like the flexibility to specify which actions to automate and which ones should be reviewed and/or taken manually. Similar to the Orchestration and Automation settings for VM, I would like to see a Scale All / Scale for Performa...
10 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud PaaS & DBaaS 1 Future consideration

Extend functionality of the Maintenance Window Manager - Generate Report in PDF

By adding Report in PDF format Maintenance Window Manager may export data that we can see on the screen. Customer's NMS operator can select the window for report ( maintenance START or maintenance STOP window ) so it can be share with the other te...
10 months ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 0 Planned for future release

Sensor for monitoring Elasticsearch Cluster 8.9.x

Need sensor tosupport for monitoring Elasticsearch Cluster version 8.9.x
10 months ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Planned for future release

IBM PowerHMC Sensor - Enable Logical Partition "state" metric for custom event

We must be able to create a Custom Event for the LPAR status when it is not running.
10 months ago in Instana / IBM Power / Sensor 0 Future consideration

sub-interface names should be made avaialble for ceges in flow report even if the sub-interfaces is not discovered in SevOne

As per current architecture for CCSDWAN, interfaces are discovered via API calls to vManage and flow is directly recived from devices. The flow interfaces then are mapped to the interfaces discovered via vManage alowing to chain the flow reports. ...
10 months ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 4 Future consideration

Add AWS Gateway and Application Load Balancers Monitoring

Hi, we would like that SevOne could monitor Gateway and Application Load Balancers in the same way as Network Load Balancers, we use some gateways one for firewall filtering and we would like to monitor its performance from our Monitoring tool.
10 months ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 4 Planned for future release

UI configuration option for case-insensitive username with LDAP

Currently, IBM Cloud Private only accepts case-sensitive usernames from LDAP. This is atypical and confusing for users as a result, especially if they're not even aware of how their username appears in the database. It can currently be configured ...
over 5 years ago in Cloud Pak for Multicloud Management Ideas 1 Future consideration

Instana to support GPU monitoring on Openshift Container Platform

Hi, My customer ISBANK needs Instana to support GPU machines on openshift.Instana supports GPU monitoring for just standalone docker servers with GPUs. According to the result of a related case, we learned that there is no support for GPU monitori...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Kubernetes / Sensor 2 Needs more information

Extended jobname in DWC

Customers running both the mainframe and distributed workloads often search for extended jobnames and require a view to display it
about 3 years ago in Workload Automation 2 Future consideration

OracleDB - adding support for the EE8MSWIN1250 character set

Hi, We have a need for the EE8MSWIN1250 character set to be added to the OracleDB sensor because we have customers who are using this character set which is not supported by default and because of that they will not have end-to-end visibility of t...
10 months ago in Instana / Other Tracers / Sensor 1 Planned for future release