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PINNED Need documentation on how to uninstall Instana for K8 and Docker self hosted installation
We need documentation on how to uninstall Instana and the resources created during the installation of Instana on K8. These steps are helpful especially recovering from failed installation so that the customer could retry the steps.
PINNED Instana Backend on ARM
Some customer have the request to install Instana backend on their Server which is using the ARM architecture CPU.

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Does Predictive Insights supports RHEL 8.3 or 8.4?

Customer requirement is to migrate PI to RHEL 8.3 or RHEL 8.4 which is not supported currently. As of now, PI supports till RHEL 7.9. Please we need a support for PI to be supported on RHEL 8.3 or RHEL 8.4
over 2 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 2 Not under consideration

Enable all log streaming to Kafka external data sink

One of my customers has requested that we stream all our logs to their Kafka data repository. They have an internal regulatory requirement around this, and their top tier vendors are expected to comply. While we can technically do this now by re-d...
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Authentication & Security / Reporting 0 Future consideration

Integrate with SolidFire | Direct VM iSCSI

My customer JPMC has been greatly expanding their use of Solidfire/direct connect iSCSI storage. As we can't see that, the environment is not anything we can manage, and leaves us out of a major opportunity area. For the customer, the use of Solid...
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / On-Premises (Hypervisor & Storage & Network) 1 Not under consideration

Netcool MessageBus password encryption

Within the MessageBus gateway (and probably probe) configs at $OMNIHOME/java/conf require passwords to be included like in KafkaClient.properties but does not allow those passwords to be encrypted, only the gateway.props can be. We need to be able...
almost 4 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 1 Not under consideration

More granular approach to Scheduling permissions in ParkMyCloud

All would benefit This would allow PMC Admins the ability to provide Team Leads and Team members with more scheduling flexibility while still maintaining limits no IaaS uptime How this could work: Currently in ParkMyCloud, there is a single checkb...
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 0 Future consideration

Enhances Schedule Permissions and Schedule Visibility

Useful for all: Anyone can use and benefit from this Large scale implementations benefit: ParkMyCloud users and team leads in larger organizations would benefit most How it would work: 1: There needs to be a concept of Enterprise Schedules , Team ...
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 1 Future consideration

Manual seeding option is not available

As of now we dont have the option of manually adding the devices into INM and it is not supported. With the current design this option is only available to ping based discovery. Adding the Ad-hoc device is not possible so can you guys add this fun...
over 1 year ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

Onboarding requires ICMP response

For onboarding any new device in to the infrastructure it needs to have proper ICMP response, without that the servers cannot be onboarded. As per IBM, in file based discovery the device might be pollable even when ICMP is not working. In our curr...
over 1 year ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

Device gets automatically deleted after 3 retries if not pingable/SNMP pollable

When a device gets added to the list and by chance if the server is not pingable / SNMP pollable then as per the current design the device gets deleted from the list automatically. There are instances where the servers might be in DMZ and they mig...
over 1 year ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 1 Future consideration

Maintenance Mode to send notification when CI is put into Maintenance Mode

When a user creates a Maintenance Schedule we don't have any option of notifying the user on whether the schedule is created successfully or not. Currently there is no notification for either creating / after the schedule ends.
over 1 year ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration