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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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IBM to provide observer for NetBrain

NetBrain is used by us for mapping network topologies and so it would be useful for ASM to be able to import such topology data into ASM through the use of an observer. NetBrain Automation Features (netbraintech.com)
10 months ago in AIOps Integrations 0 Under review

Instana UI - show approximation level for on sampled data

show approximation level (100%, 10%, 1%) and samping logic in-a-nutshell in Analytic View while sampling is active
10 months ago in Instana / Tracing 2 Future consideration

nco_p_message_bus - message_bus_cisco_epnm supporting EMS server redundancy

To support redundancy at the endpoint, an enhancement is required for the probe to rotate endpoint addresses between the primary and backup servers depending on availability. EMS - Cisco EPNM Probe - nco_p_message_bus Transport - Websocket (messag...
about 3 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

Add an option to solve from the "Stuck Online" state, when you don't WANT to STOP the resource

In a DB2 HADR cluster been managed by TSA (SAMP) policy, somehow the hadr database resource was reporting "Stuck Online" state. Everyghing was fine from DB2 and HADR perspective, Instace was UP, HADR was running normally, both primary and Standby ...
about 11 years ago in Tivoli System Automation 4 Not under consideration

We want to control how often we access AzureStorage

We are experiencing problems with AzureStorage monitoring using Instana. The problem is that excessive access to AzureStorage causes "TooManyAccess" errors. According to Azure support, this error is over access from a subscription perspective and ...
10 months ago in Instana / Azure 0 Planned for future release

Need instana support for tracing of SAP MES (base on NetWeaver)

Background: CATL(www.catl.com) has ranked first in global power battery usage for 7 consecutive years, with Y23 Rev of over CNY 400 billion and net profit of over CNY 40 billion. It is an absolute industry leader and has an influential power on th...
10 months ago in Instana / Agent 1 Planned for future release

Add option to DISABLE irreversible Cloud Volume Actions

We have an Urgent business case for Metlife to lower the Storage tier on VDI VMs that have been IDLE/powered off for 7+ days. When we generate the actions, if the VM was having high iops on SSD, we recommend resizing to HDD but also increase size ...
over 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud IaaS 3 Future consideration

Request support for Oracle Fusion Middleware Versions - 12.2.1.2 and 12.2.1.4

Request to support Oracle Fusion Middleware 12.2.1.2 and 12.2.1.4 Currently tracing shows "Source not monitored by Instana" for 80% of the SOAP calls.
over 2 years ago in Instana / Java 3 Future consideration

Ability to synchronize TWS files between MDM and BMDM automatically

Replicate TWS, WAS files located under a particular directory structure in MDM to automatically synchronize with the directory structure available in BMDM. localopts, ~/TWS/methods/XA*.opts, security.xml, wimconfig.xml, WAS properties gets changed...
about 7 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Future consideration

Endpoint grouping for mobile monitoring

Background & Context Endpoint grouping is very useful for monitoring REST API's. The problem we face is that we cannot properly compare endpoint traffic in backend with endpoint traffic monitored from frontend, as the endpoint grouping does no...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Real User Monitoring 0 Future consideration