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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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Supports HTTP Tracing for ppc64le little-endian architecture

Important finance company in Peru, is about to acquire Instana and needs to monitor with Instana agents the trace of its web servers. This is possible but the architecture is not supported.
about 2 years ago in Instana / Agent 0 Not under consideration

nco-p-ca-spectrum-corba: Similar to other ports, the probe should identify a firewall issue with ORBLocalPort if any

Due to firewall or networking issue probe unable to Sync the events from EMS/Spectrum server. We discovered the fault by manual observations as there is no notification or exception for this issue in the probe. Therefore, it is difficult to resolv...
about 2 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

Add ICMP and SNMP polling to Netdisco Observers

When ASM/Topology Manager is able to discover network and device structures via its Network Discovery Observers, why shouldn't it use this knowledge for performing healthcheck via ICMP and SNMP on this devices as well?
about 2 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Planned for future release

Properties that display when the number of users will exceed the recommended maximum number of concurrent users in webgui

. Is there any restriction of user log in if it exceeds concurrent user access count?
about 4 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Not under consideration

Infrastructure view - start with the choosen filter

Abilibility to set custom filter to start with it after user login
about 1 year ago in Instana / Infrastructure 1 Future consideration

ITCAM MS SQL Server Agent should self-recover the Collector on SQL Server recycle

The background and the issue to solve: Currently MS SQL agent version V6.3.1.20 fails to return data to TEPS after the SQL Server Instance has stopped and then been started again. This occurs if the SQL Server instance has stopped for more than th...
about 3 years ago in ITM/IBM APM 0

To alert on CVEs, introduce a new event type in Instana for "Vulnerabilities Detected"

Instana should provide capabilites to create an event based on a vulnerability detected for the particular host/technology, so that the customer's support teams are alerted for the detected vulnerabilities. The event could be either a System Event...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Security and Compliance 1 Not under consideration

MultiChannelHTTP Transport should implement retry functionalities

MultiChannelHTTP Transport should implement retry functionalities similar to the legacy HTTP Transport. # retryLimit - The number of time for http client to retry connection if previously failed. # retryLimit = 2 # # retryWait - The amount of time...
about 1 year ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 2 Functionality already exists

Ability to see trough API the history of removed peers & HSA

Request is ability to see the information through API of HSA and Peers that were removed successfully previously. And in case of re-adding a repaved host, erase that information.
about 1 year ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 1 Planned for future release

Ability to remove and then re-add a virtual appliance to an NMS cluster without re-imaging

Request is ability to remove and then re-add a virtual appliance to an NMS cluster without re-imaging to we do not loose server capacity when testing, since it is a painful process for us to get this.
about 1 year ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 0 Planned for future release