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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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CLOSE_WAIT status monitoring

We need Instana to monitor, alert and publish CLOSE_WAIT status for running processes on a host. It will be used for troubleshooting as well as proactive measure to avoid any potential outage.
8 months ago in Instana / Infrastructure 0 Future consideration

Attach instana unix agent only to specific JVMs (inverse of INSTANA_IGNORE)

Hello, I would like to make a request for ability to attach instana agent only to specific JVMs (not to all JVMs that exists on application host which is current default). I found that there is INSTANA_IGNORE=true JVM environment variable ( https...
8 months ago in Instana / Agent 0 Future consideration

For the Power systems, need local agent in VIOS similar to what others are certified for in https://community.ibm.com/community/user/power/viewdocument/vios-recognized-list

Local agent installations on the VIOS on Power Servers will help to fetch metrices at more granular level than the minimum 5m offered by the HMC. After discussion with Power sales team, this remains one of the main bottleneck to position Instana a...
8 months ago in Instana / IBM Power / Sensor 1 Future consideration

Able to disable monitoring in Instana based on namespaces (K8s)

customer would like to disable monitoring/instrumentation based on namespaces.
about 3 years ago in Instana / Agent / Kubernetes 1 Not under consideration

Centralized Update: Ability to change BACKUP_DIR, TMP_DIR and other parameters dynamically

Have ability to specified parameters like BACKUP_DIR or TMP_DIR or launch pre-script to change theses values before start centralized update from DWC.
over 6 years ago in Workload Automation 4 Planned for future release

EWS Probe for reading email attachments

We are using EWS probe for reading emails from outlook site, as the end user report most frequent problems with attachment of the issue over email to common mailbox. We have enabled the netcool probe to read emails from outlook, but using the E...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Not under consideration

Data source encryption with AES

The current AES Encryption implementation in OMNIbus and WebGUI only allows passwords up to 30 characters long whether encrypted or un-encrypted. If you encrypt a password longer than 16 chars using ncw_aes_crypt script, the encrypted string becom...
8 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

Customize Start up page by users preference

Currently the start up page is hard set for ALL users. The users are now requesting to be able to save their own start up page in the start up view when they login, that they would like to see.
8 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

Webservice Job: Pooling the execution status in the same webservice jobs

Hi team, We are using webservice jobs run various seeded jobs using the webservice plugins. In second step we are defining an executable job to fetch the report id/request id from the XM response. In last step we are doing the conditional checks i...
8 months ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

Remove or restrict ncw_admin role that is required for Scope Based Event Grouping

As per IBM documentation, ncw_admin role from Netcool/OMNIbus WebGUI has to be granted to the users who want to use Scope Based Event Grouping. However, this provides higher privileges to the users unnecessarily. It allows users to update/modify s...
over 2 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Planned for future release