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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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Reminder message for user if the logging level is left outside of Info.

Oftentimes if there is an issue where a customer has to do some deep digging on an issue the logging level is changed from Info to perhaps Debug or Trace level. Sometimes mistakes are made and the logging level is not set back to Info. When this h...
over 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 0 Not under consideration

Add imported groups to the Groups management page

Idea: Add a new section to the Settings|Groups management page that shows imported groups and their origin Currently, when you navigate to Settings|Groups, you do not see groups that have been imported from vCenter or other targets. The imported ...
over 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 0 Not under consideration

Add threshold for response time NFR in custom dashboards

To be able to compare the measured response time with our given non functional requirements regarding response time it would be helpful to set a constant value for the response time threshold in a time series widget in custom dashboards.
over 2 years ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 2 Future consideration

Allow stream name alias on event rule

We would like each time the monitored stream completes or errors (multiple times a day), a submitted stream gets alias with a unique name by the event rule. Aliasing a submitted stream is not functioning on IWS 9.5. Event Rule errors. For example:...
over 2 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

Provide Similar ContainerD Container Name as the Docker Container Name (UI and API)

Dear Instana Team, as we recently switched our K8s Cluster from Docker to ConatinerD as runtime we noticed also a change of the view in Instana and at the connected systems (through Instana API). As we connected the data from Pods and Containers b...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Infrastructure / Sensor 0 Planned for future release

Kill Zombie Jobs: Add functionality to be able to recover from a corrupted Jobtable on an FTA

When an FTA crashes and gets a corrupted Jobtable and the Jobtable must be removed, jobs that were in EXEC status before the crash remain in EXEC state and take run slots against the server limit, and job stream limit if applicable, even after the...
over 7 years ago in Workload Automation 2 Not under consideration

Newly created Instance Types not be added automatically added to the existing policies

We have observed that, the polices are being automatically changed such that the newly created instance types by Azure and Google cloud providers are being selected in all the existing policies. This should not be happening in the policies created...
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 0

TADDM should create IpDevice for ALL IPs that respond to ping

Expectations are that all active IPs will be detected by TADDM, and at a minimum IpDevice will be created. We have detected this is not happening today. Today, TADDM only detects devices with certain TCP ports active. RFE is to enhance the PingSen...
over 7 years ago in Tivoli Application Dependency Discovery Manager 1 Not under consideration

MCM to enable an Option to provision a cluster from MCM UI

MCM to enable an Option to provision a cluster from MCM UI
about 5 years ago in Cloud Pak for Multicloud Management Ideas 1 Not under consideration

MCM to provide the choice of BYOC (Bring your own CA signed certificate) for OCP Child Cluster on AWS

Provisioned cluster (VIA MCM) certificate is self-signed and while accessing the cluster it doesn't allow the access if you are in blue network (Ideally cluster provisioning mechanism should ask the user to provide CA signed certificate for the cl...
about 5 years ago in Cloud Pak for Multicloud Management Ideas 1 Not under consideration