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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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Need ability to properly discover device links when ifStack mib not enabled on device

We need the ability to get correct link information between devices in our environment
3 months ago in Tivoli Network Manager 0 Needs more information

Need API call to run the already configured NFVD load jobs

Its needed by the client to perform LCM takeover during regression testing
5 months ago in Infrastructure Automation 0 Needs more information

Instana agent must bring metrics from multiple database services with different ports on local host.

The current Instana implemented code picks the “port” number from configuration.yaml file and figures out that what is database service name (or SID) and connects and brings-in corresponding metrics. IBM developers may update the code to read mult...
5 months ago in Instana / Sensor 4 Needs more information

Enhance analytic view with http class metric

As our dev/test/ops team analyze service trace/call info service request status it would be great to have optional metric http class as single stat in group view
5 months ago in Instana / Tracing 1 Needs more information

Support for platforms such as Docker and Azure to deploy a PoP for synthetic monitoring

We are users of the Instana APM solution and have been trying out the Synthetic Monitoring feature to help ensure the performance and availability of our applications. However, we have found that the current implementation of this feature only sup...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Synthetic 1 Needs more information

Add regular expressions feature for service naming

Many of our customers use CMDB that will require them to adjust default service names. Our service naming approach requires them to use environment variables like INSTANA_SERVICE_NAME, INSTANA_PROCESS_NAME, HTTP Headers etc… In almost every case i...
7 months ago in Instana / Common 4 Needs more information

Required DSA/API for RESTConf Integration with Netcool IMPACT

Most of the RESTAPi platform in market are providing services using RESTConf and given the market progression, soon existing RESTApi will be migrated to RESTConf. (Eg: NSP a Nokia product, holds RESTAPI interface for OSS platform, but all RESTAPI ...
8 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 2 Needs more information