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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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Last Resort Circuit Status Support in ITNM

We need to be able to manage last resort circuit status where the interaface is normally ifadmin up and ifoper down until the primary circuits fail at which time the last resort circuit moves to ifadmin up and ifoper up. We need to not create inte...
over 3 years ago in Tivoli Network Manager 1 Not under consideration

Publication of API docs for the self-hosted k8s operator releases

API documentation for Docker-based self-hosted backends is available via https://$INSTANA_URL/docs/index.html.The customer would like to have the same for the Kubernetes operator self-hosted backend for each released version.Ticket: https://instan...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Kubernetes / Self Hosted 0 Future consideration

Hide authorization token in alert channel header value

Please provide an option to hide the value field when there is a token inside for security reasons. You will find this in the alert channel header area. Details please find in the attached screenshot.
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Alert 0

Increase Event Time Window Selection for a Spesific Time Period While Creation Event

We want to monitor the number of calls made to an endpoint in a certain time interval and create an alarm. However, the time interval options in custom event configuration of instana can be arranged as maximum 120 minutes. If we can extend this ti...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Alert 1 Not under consideration

Restricting/Disable un-used ObjectServer Fields from WebGUI Event viewer double click

When we double click an event from WebGUI event viewer, we are seeing all the Omnibus fields and most of the fields are empty and not required for the NOC team. Customer is interested to see only the important or required columns when they double ...
over 3 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

Cloud Automation Manager support of X.509 client certificate for REST hooks in the service composer

Currently ICAM service composer REST hooks supports basic authentication with login and password. For some clients such as banks this is basic authentication method is not allowed anymore for machine to machine communication. Instead, SSO based me...
over 5 years ago in Cloud Pak for Multicloud Management Ideas 0 Not under consideration

Create Driver for Cisco Wireless Link Controllers 5508

Please create managed SmartModels for:Vendor: CiscoType: Wireless Lan ControllerModel: 5508OS: 7.2.111.3 and 7.4.110.0
almost 11 years ago in Tivoli Netcool Configuration Manager 2 Not under consideration

Support for jboss logging version 3.4.1 without programmatic API

For making the JBoss deployment lighter, and for reducing downtime while deployments, we consider that using jboss logging is more convenient than log4j. Unfortunately, this logging framework is not supported by instana (see case #30712). So then,...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Java / Logging / Tracing 3 Functionality already exists

MCM Cassandra , increase trace retention to 4 days

Our customer from CE needs the retention data of application traces to be 4 days , instead of default 2 days. We understood this is hardcoded in Cassnadra but can not be changed / configured. We are using OCP 4.10.43 + MCM 2.3.28(FP6) TS011304665
almost 2 years ago in Cloud Pak for Multicloud Management Ideas 1 Not under consideration

API Support to NCM Compliance Component

NCM's REST API doesn't support the compliance part of the tool. From an NCM perspective, the REST API only works with the "worker" side of the product.
over 3 years ago in Tivoli Netcool Configuration Manager 1 Not under consideration