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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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Manual seeding option is not available

As of now we dont have the option of manually adding the devices into INM and it is not supported. With the current design this option is only available to ping based discovery. Adding the Ad-hoc device is not possible so can you guys add this fun...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

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

Additional job EVERY behaviour

A new job EVERY feature that makes a job rerun instance always run on its defined frequency, without being dependant on the ending of the previous instance. Now, a new job instance is created after the previous instance has ended. Sometimes multip...
almost 6 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Future consideration

Need to check the compatibility version for weblogic agent for Tivoli yj.( in case of weblogic upgrade from 12C to 14.1)

We are planning to upgrade weblogic application from 12C to 14.1. So We need to ensure the compatibility version of the Tivoli agent (yj) for weblogic.kindly provide me the compatible version and suggest us.
almost 4 years ago in ITM/IBM APM 2 Planned for future release

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

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

Improve reliability of sending data to Instana

We have been observing regular connection failures (about 100 within a week for about a dozen services), when the Node agent was attempting to send data to the Instana servers. The error message was often related to timeouts: Error received while ...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Node 2 Future consideration

Ability to customize & create banners in IWO

A tiny customizable banner at the top of the page would allow us to inform users when we have planned actions. It would also allow us to provide helpful information, such as if there is a temporary outage or data is missing, etc.
almost 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 1 Not under consideration