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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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LDAP integration - automatic retrieve list of users and groups

It would be a useful feature that Instana, after the integration with LDAP, would automatically retrieve all users and groups from the LDAP according to the filter given in the LDAP configuration. This way administration of new users would be m...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Access Control 5 Functionality already exists

a new connection method be created for running processes on a Windows extended agent with Openssh (without the cygwin emulator)

a new connection method be created for running processes on a Windows extended agent with Openssh (without the cygwin emulator)
2 months ago in Workload Automation 1 Functionality already exists

Exclude Local FileSystem from monitoring

Currently, there is only option to INCLUDE REMOTE filesystems to be monitored within Instana agent configuration file. Customer is looking for the option to EXCLUDE LOCAL filesystem from monitoring. They do have some filesystems which are nearly f...
2 months ago in Instana / Agent 2 Functionality already exists

CCSDWAN Dedicated Cluster: Philips : NMS 6.7.1: Flow reporting issue : Interface index visible instead of Interface name in FIM

In Flow interface manager, we are not seeing interfaces name for the sub interfaces, but it shows with ifindex id which is difficult for us to recognize and not acceptable in the flow reporting. Flow data receiving through sub-interfaces, however ...
2 months ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 1 Functionality already exists

Allow for selecting multiple blocks for bulk operations

Allow selection of multiple blocks to allow for copy, clone or delete operations.
3 months ago in Rapid Network Automation 1 Functionality already exists

Please update SevOne to support monitoring of the most recent Java releases

Update the SevOne JMX monitoring capability to support updated versions of JAVA. When developers build poor JAVA code it will chew through resources assigned to the JVM until such a point until it crashes and goes into garbage collection. Where co...
5 months ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 1 Functionality already exists

Mute or Silent specific service alert to exclude specific Node/Cluster from the filter

Mute/Silent alerts for Particular node or cluster which is making lot of noise. Please refer case ID TS016989752 for the same.
3 months ago in Instana / Alert 1 Functionality already exists

Expand options for monthly execution schedules

Currently monthly reoccurring schedules are limited to picking a specific day (3rd Wednesday), but don't allow for selecting a timeframe such as 2nd weekend or 3rd week. Often patching and maintenance schedules are a timeframe such as the last wee...
3 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 1 Functionality already exists

Disabling instrumentation for a specific pod and jdbc connection

Hi, We request you the possibility to disable tracing for an specific pod or for any specific jdbc connection. Right now the only wat to disable tracing for a pod is by doing ignore processes. https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/curr...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Tracing 3 Functionality already exists

Please implement a way to hide production subscriptions for cloud parking

In most situations, we don't want to park production subscriptions, so would like to hide these for the majority of users. For the infrequent times we want to park production, I would want to see this available for elevated-access users only.
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 4 Functionality already exists