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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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Autoprofile support when using the instana lambda extension

We instrument our node based AWS lambdas by using the instana lambda extension. If technically feasible, it would be nice to have support for AutoProfile when using this sensor.
over 1 year ago in Instana / Tracing 0 Not under consideration

Add historical reporting features available on IWS to IWS on Cloud.

IWS on Cloud (SaaS) does not provide the historical reporting features available in the on-premise versions. The "historical reports" features should be available to SaaS customers too. The priority is on "job run history".
almost 6 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Future consideration

add cgroups v2 PSI metrics to Instana

With the cgroupv2 starting to emerge maybe is a good idea to start collecting and using the PSI metrics available in machines/containers that enabled cgroupsv2. They are valid for Servers and containers. You can find details here about the PSI met...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Future consideration

Have Turbonomic ignore DRS constraints if DRS is turned off on the cluster

I have some move policies that are failing to produce actions due to a restriction on "Segmentation Commodity" type constraint, built off of DRS rules imported from vCenter. However, even after I turned DRS off, it is still restricting the VMs eve...
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 1 Is a defect

Configuration of Access and Error Logs Retention and Size Policies for Nginx in Instana

Currently, the access and error logs generated by Nginx in Instana are stored under /var/log/instana/nginx and can occupy significant disk space. However, there is no way to configure retention and size policies for these logs, which can lead to s...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Self Hosted 5 Future consideration

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 ...
almost 6 years ago in Cloud Pak for Multicloud Management Ideas 1 Future consideration

Oracle alert log data on the mcm console

We are missing oracle alert log data in UI (mcm console), I had a discuss with UI developer team to develop UI so that we can see the oracle alert log data in mcm console same as ITM oracle extended agent. IBM Case# TS014762727
10 months ago in Cloud Pak for Multicloud Management Ideas 1 Not under consideration

Autometic Geo failover of Two separate MCM environments - how we can failover agents without a post-configuration script such as 1) using the same custom certificate and 2) DNS hostname change with the same ip address.

Geo failover prevents a single point of failure. Using the same custom certificate for two different MCM environments gives active/active or active/passive failover mechanism for uninterrupted 24X7 monitoring.
10 months ago in Cloud Pak for Multicloud Management Ideas 1 Not under consideration

Enhancement request to take an action when all rerun attempts got completed using Event rule.

1. IWA to invoke Python script only after final attempt of re-run of a given job fails a. We need to submit script using adhoc job in event rule whenever there is a job ABEND, when all the automatic reruns/ iterations are completed. b. Currently t...
10 months ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

Enhancement request to remove character limitation of event rules for variable resolution.

a. We need adhoc job having a Meaning full name, b. Tried to pass the actual job name, but we can't run multiple jobs with same job name, due to iteration we need multiple triggers. c. To add dynamic value along with Job name due to 40character li...
10 months ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration