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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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It's better to have the percent memory utilized for a process (e.g., Integration Server process in IBM ACE)

We want to capture the percentage memory utilized for any integration server process. This will help in identifying the max. memory used process so that support team can take appropriate action on that process.
5 months ago in Instana / ACE/IIB / Sensor 2 Future consideration

bring in ANY GCP metric into Instana

Want the ability to bring in ANY GCP metric into Instana. Some of our competitors have solutions that have out of the box dashboards for specific GCP services. But, they also provide the ability to specify a configuration to bring in metrics from ...
5 months ago in Instana / Sensor 2 Future consideration

verify IIS credential on agent setup or show missing credential in agent log

When Installing and running agent on a Windows host hosting IIS, the agent seems read the content of the application pool and site with the local admin right.if local admin rights is removed from the user that run the app pool Instana wont be able...
5 months ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Future consideration

Add ability to pause target reporting

We have a password that changes and it takes a number of days to reset. In the time it takes update the password the targets try too many times and locks the new password. If we can pause the discovery of the target with a pause button this would ...
11 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Target Support 1 Future consideration

Would like a ROLE similar to Automator but with the ability to create Templates

Useful because then we won't have to assign the Administrator ROLE to an account used by an automation Service. Automator is missing the ability to create Templates.
8 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Authentication & Security 0 Future consideration

DWC - Viewing external dependency graphically from workload designer

It would be useful if the workload designer could show external dependencies between multiple chained jobstreams, to allow a better understanding of the scheduling network. Currently the designer only shows immediate predecessors for jobstreams. E...
over 1 year ago in Workload Automation 1 Future consideration

Flexible data storage requirements for appliances

The data storage requirements for the PAS and DNC are rigid at present. While a customer may not have a requirement to archive metric and flow data for a period of 1 year, the ova files are pre configured with a set storage requirement. The storag...
8 months ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 0 Future consideration

[python-sensor] - Instrumentation

Please add support for the following python libraries: - stomp.py (Stomp QA) - aioamqp (AMQP) - zeep (SOAP) - spyne (SOAP Server) Currently they are not supported.
about 2 years ago in Instana / Python 3 Future consideration

PostgreSQL server monitor via Remote Server

PostgreSQL server monitor via Remote Server , we unable to install Instana agent locally due to restriction, we want to monitor from the remote server Currently no option to add host details # PostgreSQL#com.instana.plugin.postgresql:# user: ''# p...
5 months ago in Instana / Common 1 Future consideration

Report on Amortized Cost Per AWS Account

We need Turbonomic to report amortized costs per AWS to match what is being reported in CloudHealth (and ultimately what is being charged-back to Application owners).
8 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Billing & Costs & Discounts 0 Future consideration