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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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Updates on the WMI Plugin

The WMI Plugin is quite outdated at this point. Additionally managing the mapping of devices to WMI Proxies is a nightmare, as it can only be done through the API. Additionally, WMI Proxies are set on a per device basis. Ideally I'd like the abili...
over 1 year ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 0 Future consideration

Disk Trends - Ability to aggregate all disk usage trends into an aggregated single metric

Today, if we look at an AIX host within Instana, all it shows in the prebuilt view are insights from individual file systems in terms of disk I/O. What is missing is an aggregated view that combines all the disk I/O together on the host like is cu...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Planned for future release

Alerts on Apdex/SLA/SLI/SLO

Currently the data is only visible on custom dashboards It would be nice to have the option to alert on this, and also have those more prominent in the Application Perspective Overview.
over 1 year ago in Instana / SLO/SLI (STAN) 2 Future consideration

Allow installation and patching via sudo rule instead of requiring actual root access

Our security teams do not like providing us access to root to perform installations and patching activities. Their stated preference is that we use sudo rules. Having to coordinate the activity with the Linux admins means double the human resource...
over 2 years ago in Workload Automation 2 Future consideration

Agent liveness check

While Instana Agent offers a health endpoint, this endpoint is only available on the localhost we are seeking a reliable way of validating that the agent is running by ie polling a heartbeat of liveness check without the need for another monitorin...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Agent 3 Functionality already exists

24 hour (daily) granularity on long term views

When looking at a few weeks worth of data in Instana granularity is set to 12 hours.When having a daily seasonality in traffic - which I assume most Instana users have to some extend - this means that data like the number of calls cannot be easily...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Application perspectives 5 Future consideration

Support Yocto Linux for IEAM edge device

Add support Yocto Linux 2.5.1 and 2.5.1+ on Intel Atom processor for IEAM edge device prerequisite OS. IEAM edge device prerequisite OS is described below. https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSFKVV_4.1/devices/installing/adding_devices.ht...
over 4 years ago in Edge Application Manager 4 Not under consideration

Ability to specify multiple VTMOS for a native command set

I would like to be able to create NCS on Cisco/*/*/* instead of having to mandatory select a Type
over 5 years ago in Tivoli Netcool Configuration Manager 0 Future consideration

Stop evaluating an expression when one definition is false

Minimise the checks directly on the device, by stopping evaluation when the first definitions are false.
over 5 years ago in Tivoli Netcool Configuration Manager 0 Future consideration

Ability to set Javascript NCS timeout on demand

Ability to set a dynamic timeout for Javascript NCS, current default is ~3 minutes before timeout
over 5 years ago in Tivoli Netcool Configuration Manager 1 Future consideration