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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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Setting Delay in sending threshold trap to destination

If we impose a delay suppose 5 min , It will be helpful to avoid the alerts which are clearing in 5 minutes of time not send to netcool or the destination event manager and subsequently we can avoid these tickets. Now due to lack of this feature ,...
over 1 year ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 5 Not under consideration

Need to get performance data from IBM Storage and Brocade SAN into Instana

we using only IBM Storage e.g. FS9200, FS9500, FS5xxx and Brocade SAN Directors and Switches. We need to get performance data from these devices into Instana and also into AIOPS for ML purpose either from each device directly or e.g. from Storage ...
over 1 year ago in Instana / IBM Storage / Sensor 1 Not under consideration

PowerVM - LPAR HA support

LPAR HA setup, when one LPAR from group scales so does also the other for consistency
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / On-Premises (Hypervisor & Storage & Network) 1 Future consideration

Adding sticky bits setgid and setuid on DB2 directories

System details: ITM version: 6.3.7 SP13OS: Linux OS RHEL 7.9TEPS-DB: DB2 v11.5.8.0TDW-DB: Oracle Database 19c We have received a security compliance finding related with DB2 world writeable directories. The following 2 directories are world writea...
over 1 year ago in ITM/IBM APM 4 Not under consideration

Certify Multi Factor Authentication IBM DASH integration with Okta

Default Authentication for IBM DASH using Websphere is not sufficient to protect unauthorized users into system. Enterprises use Okta's web-based, single sign-on (SSO) application to provide a single centralised interface to access third-party p...
over 2 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

Gateway for Message Bus (XML Gateway) Should Allow Inclusion of Custom Headers When Running in HTTP Transport Mode

Allow inclusion of custom headers when the Gateway for Message Bus (nco_g_xml) is running with Gate.XMLGateway.TransportType : 'HTTP'Most significantly, an authentication header. Currently per IBM support, only basic authentication is supported, a...
almost 4 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 1 Not under consideration

Openstack agent for CP4MCM

On Telco to support network virtualization is very common to use Openstack as the cloud operations which operators runs their VNFs (Virtual Network Functions) and is very important to monitor this environment. A CP4MCM agent for Openstack can help...
almost 4 years ago in Cloud Pak for Multicloud Management Ideas 0 Not under consideration

Customer defined encryption key for data at rest

Have the option for customers to defined their encryption key for data stored at rest on INSTANA's SaaS Backends. For example, an integration with IBM Key Protect for IBM Cloud could do that.
over 2 years ago in Instana / SRE 1 Not under consideration

Vmware Agent ITM version 07.30.03.00 up limit table KVM_TOPOLGY

TS008498905 2022-03-30 10:49:26 40 INFO: Inventory.processUpdate: Total count of monitored objects in the environment(10.113.52.212) is 3501. Data collection of Topology attribute group is disabled as it is supported to collect data for the maximu...
over 2 years ago in ITM/IBM APM 1 Not under consideration

Java method tracing pre-defined options

Instana is unable to determine the time/performance at the Java “method” level. Instana requires either of the two of traces to be enabled to capture the method level performance, 1. Configuration based SDK trace: No changes on the application cod...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Java 1 Planned for future release