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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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Instana on Openshift to use default ingress certificate

Hi, We install instana on openshift on my customer environment, customer wants that instana to use default ingress certificate for itself and not give tls.key and tls.crt files again on instana installation on openshift container platform.Because ...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Self Hosted 1 Not under consideration

Huawei Corba TMF814 more information in connections

In the visualization of connections in Network Hop View should be improved in order to show the users more information without the need to open the Structure View to check the endpoints. Currently we have only the ifDescr in the connection tooltip...
almost 6 years ago in Tivoli Network Manager 10 Not under consideration

Openshift GPU Monitoring

In instana APM tool there is no information about gpus working on redhat openshift. It will be very useful to monitor gpu metrics, info and utilization data for openshift clusters connected to instana.
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Sensor 1 Future consideration

Allow moving of VM's on a datastore not in a Storage Cluster to a datastore in a Storage Cluster and vice-versa

Allow moving of VM's on a datastore not in a Storage Cluster to a datastore in a Storage Cluster and vice-versa. Currently this type of action is blocked due to a Turbo limitation not a VMware limitation. This is needed when customers have to migr...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / On-Premises (Hypervisor & Storage & Network) 0 Planned for future release

WatsonAIOPS (AI Manager) topology view of properties change , and easy way to see what is the change.

The topology view of resources shown when a change of properties has been detected but on 3.5.1 we have to compare the JSON definition of the resource of two different periods in order to see what was the change, in some cases the changes are more...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

Review (readonly) permission on roles definition WatsonAIOPS (AI Manager). The customer is looking to have a READONLY on stories,alerts,runbooks permission for some user, on WatsonAIOPS 3.5.1

We are doing a project with Watson AIOPS (AI Manager) 3.5.1. During role definition was not possible to define a role that allow only view( read-only) on stories, alerts, and runbooks. The most restrictive role for alerts/stories/runbooks was allo...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

Custom Template Sensor - Support pushing scripts to the target server before running executeCommandWithTimeout

There seems to be no way of pushing scripts to the target server before running executeCommandWithTimeout. We have solved this on Linux by code in the sensor.py by rsyncing scripts to the target server. This should be standard feature, so adding s...
over 7 years ago in Tivoli Application Dependency Discovery Manager 1 Not under consideration

Command Line tools to remove decommissioned agents

Customer uses APM for years and he is looking for a solution on removing decommissioned, old agents in an automated way. Based on APM documentation, old, decommissioned agents disappear from APM only when these agent instances do not appear in any...
almost 2 years ago in ITM/IBM APM 1 Not under consideration

Instana Google Cloud platform support for python slim buster image

Hello, I have been trying to integrate instana with GCP and our project uses python's slim buster image. I tried it with Alpine image but a lot of our dependencies are not being supported by it, like PYPI wheels, pycryptodomex, etc Please provide ...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Python 2 Not under consideration

TDWC does not have the flexibility of 5.1 in ISPF TWS dialog

The flexibility of 5.1 in ISPF TWS dialog is not available in TDWC - see TS001756747 Above asks for a PMR iD but PMR's have been replaced by case numbers (Sales Force) but this system does not recognise case numbers!
almost 6 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Future consideration