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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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Onboarding requires ICMP response

For onboarding any new device in to the infrastructure it needs to have proper ICMP response, without that the servers cannot be onboarded. As per IBM, in file based discovery the device might be pollable even when ICMP is not working. In our curr...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

Device gets automatically deleted after 3 retries if not pingable/SNMP pollable

When a device gets added to the list and by chance if the server is not pingable / SNMP pollable then as per the current design the device gets deleted from the list automatically. There are instances where the servers might be in DMZ and they mig...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 1 Future consideration

Maintenance Mode to send notification when CI is put into Maintenance Mode

When a user creates a Maintenance Schedule we don't have any option of notifying the user on whether the schedule is created successfully or not. Currently there is no notification for either creating / after the schedule ends.
almost 2 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

Include CPU Provisioned figures in the Alleviate Pressure plan

When running the Alleviate Pressure plan in Turbonomic it does not include CPU Provisioned in the output fields. For both the Cluster Merge and Optimization plans this figure is present. This would be helpful to display the pressure release in a c...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 0 Future consideration

Manage agent keys inside Instana UI

Follow on from this ticket where it was necessary to rotate the Agent Keys this feature request is for the capability to manage Agent Keys from the Instana UI in order to limit the visibility and usage of keys to specific teams or parts ...
over 3 years ago in Instana / Agent 2 Not under consideration

Quick Filters - To be permanent on the Main or Parent Filter

Set Quick Filters as permanent than temporary
over 3 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 2 Future consideration

Update TADDM API to support iSeries discovery using PKI

As TADDM can use the SSH Public Key Infrastructure to authenticate the access to Unix or Linux target systems, why is this not possible to set up for iSeries machines ?To quote from the Sensor log "TADDM does not support the discovery of IBM i sys...
over 7 years ago in Tivoli Application Dependency Discovery Manager 1 Future consideration

WebGUI 8.1 : Column add comments directly to that field without right click tool

Users requested to have “new” field (similar to Journal), so that it is possible to add comments directly to that field, without opening new window (right click tool). According to requirement it should work like in excel sheet. Additionally, user...
over 3 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Not under consideration

Support of Springboot newer versions (from 2.7.0)

Hello, We recently updated our springboot framework to 2.7.0 and found out that we lost a certain amount of spans and custom tags after this upgrade. Can you plan to support at least this version of springboot shortly ? Kind Regards, Quentin
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Java 1 Is a defect

Correlation-id based logging approach when provisioning infrastructure

New correlation-id should be created for each API call/request and should be carried forward to the subsequent internal calls to the other microservices. All logs should be prefixed with the correlation-id (supported by many logging libraries) In ...
over 5 years ago in Cloud Pak for Multicloud Management Ideas 0 Not under consideration