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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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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

HashiCorp integration with IWS for secure connection between DB and IWS master

There should be a way to intigrate HashiCorp with IWS .We saw security team in organation asking to use Hashicorp to secure the connection/authentication between IWS master and oracle database as we are using XML file to pass password/Username (ev...
almost 2 years ago in Workload Automation 2 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

Script to create a group of VMs who's percentile CPU utilization is under a specified threshold

Citigroup reqeusted for a cusmtom script to create a group of VMs who's percentile CPU utilization is under a specified threshold. This should also enable downloading a csv of the same members as well as selecting other commodities like Mem
almost 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM 0

Specify request & limits of pod Leader Elector

In https://github.com/instana/helm-charts/blob/main/instana-agent/values.yaml the Instana agent has defined cpu & memory requests and limits, see line 89.However, for the leader elector there are none. As a consequence the leader elector takes...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Agent 7 Functionality already exists

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

ktor library support

Everyone using Kotlin platform.
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Java 2 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

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