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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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On IBM AIX, Instana should not count filecache (completely) as "used_memory"

AIX by default uses available memory as filecache (between limits set by parameters minperm% and maxperm%), usually up to 90% of the total memory size. When the applications use only a small portion of available memory, the remainder (or large par...
12 days ago in Instana / IBM Power 0 Submitted

Monitor Windows Task Status

Instana should be able to Monitor the status of Windows task
18 days ago in Instana / Infrastructure 0 Submitted

Monitoring of Specific Local Network Port and Distant (reacheable port)

We request a Plugin that would basically check the status of a specified local port or a reacheable port from where the agent is residing. USE CASE #1 ( Local Port ) This would be usefull to validate the status of an application port . Sometimes a...
24 days ago in Instana / Infrastructure 0 Submitted

Import Score cards data into Apptio BI

Customers can use the Score cards data into Apptio BI and drive Gamification initiative in theor organization. They can share the Dashboard to multiple users and team
2 days ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 0 Submitted

Cloudability should be able to automatically archive deleted accounts

Cloudability has access to our billing account and to the API to query additional information. There should be a capability within Cloudability to automatically archive accounts that do not exist no more. Currently those accounts are grouped toget...
2 days ago in Cloudability / Vendor Credentials and Integrations 0 Submitted

Need to support Oracle LDAP

Dear colleagues, our customer is using Oracle LDAP as a corporate identity provider system. Instana allows users in, however it doesn't allow to map groups with Instana groups for centralised user management. Customer has found that Instana includ...
2 days ago in Instana / Access Control 0 Submitted

Data Privacy: Implement a solution to filter PI data from imported tags

Customers, especially in EMEA have data privacy concern if PI data is processed by a SaaS solution. PI data maybe contained in tags Turbonomic imports from Hypervisors or cloud providers. Please implement an option when adding targets that allow i...
2 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / SaaS 0 Submitted

Add support for a self-hosted appliance on public cloud IaaS

A number of customers are for a self-hosted deployment of a virtual appliance hosted on Public Cloud IaaS as they cannot use SaaS due to data privacy consideration and do not want to go for an OVA deployment as they either have outsourced the on-p...
2 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / General/Other 0 Submitted

Enhanced Role-Base Access Control: Additive permissions resulting from multiple external group memberships

If a user is a member of multiple external groups, Turbonomic authenticates the user through the first group that was returned during the SSO or AD authentication. This requires that the use of disjoint SSO or AD Groups for Turbonomic authenticati...
2 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Authentication & Security 0 Submitted

User Management: Replace predefined roles by permissions or support for custom roles

Today Turbonomic does only support predefined roles with a predefined set of permissions. Customer request more flexibility in granting permissions to users as the predefined roles do not cover all their requirements. e.g. for a scope user allowed...
2 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Authentication & Security 0 Submitted