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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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Tellabs Probe to fetch alarms from EMS through Authentication

Tellabs Probe doesnt support Authentication (Username/Password) properties. Customer EMS allows to fetch alarms only based on credentials.
almost 2 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

Synthetic monitoring enhanced permission

Viewer permission will be able to view the Synthetic monitoring configuration details that may contain a username/password to login to the application. Request to create enhanced permission or set up additional HBAC permission for this?
7 months ago in Instana / Synthetic 3 Functionality already exists

Needs to add Cluster Storage Drive Data in Instana

Team, our Dell S2D platform Cluster Storage information is not reported in Instana portal. Instana only reporting the specific Node native drives but not the cluster volumes.
about 1 year ago in Instana / Infrastructure / Sensor 0 Future consideration

Alert if a file is created

Get an alert if a file is created in a mount/directory/drive for example if a .dmp file is created in windows etc.
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Alert / Sensor 0 Future consideration

Fix colours on the pie chart report.

The idea is to be able to assign the color to the particular value of the pie chart and fix it there. Currently, if the value has a particular color but then will be hidden by the filter, the color is re-assigned to a different value, which chang...
about 1 year ago in Targetprocess / Reports 0 Under review

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...
almost 2 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

change time frame resolution in Chart: Time Series.

We want to change the resolution as shown in the chart time series graphs, Instana establishes by default a granularity according to the time frame that one selects., we want to change the resolution in a personalized way, it would allow us to ana...
7 months ago in Instana / Metric Store 2 Future consideration

Stop Azure Application Gateway via a schedule/policy to reduce costs when back-end pools are off line or shutdown.

Azure Application Gateways cannot be stopped/started via the Azure Web Portal, but they can be stopped or started using Azure CLI or Powershell. There is also a POST command API method to start/stop an Application Gateway that can be found in the ...
about 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM 0 Future consideration

To be able to change Scaling Target VMEM Utilization for On-Premises

Currently, almost all of my SQL Servers are considered to not have enough memory according to Turbonomic as it appears to want 70% free memory. This was told to me by support. This threshold is way above what VMware and Microsoft consider to be be...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / On-Premises (Hypervisor & Storage & Network) 0 Future consideration

Webmethods 5.1 support

Our customer ISBANK wants to have webmethods 5.1 to be supported.
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Java 1 Not under consideration