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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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Enable HSTS by default on all user facing endpoints

Currently, customer can enable HSTS for EUM and all nginx components (so everything except agent traffic) by eum { hsts_enabled=true} on docker-based installations (opt-in). That EUM settings affect also HSTS on the Instana backend i.e., for at ap...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Self Hosted 1 Delivered

ParkMyCloud Column customization and column expansion from GUI

It can be frustrating when the information that i want or need to see is not easily readable on the ParkMyCloud interface. Many times the interface key information can't be read and the column cannot be expanded. As a frequent PMC user, the abilit...
about 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 1 Delivered

Scaling powered off VMs

There are numerous scenarios where a VM is powered off and can/should be scaled. Once a workload is powered off though, the action goes away. I think it's important to allow these resources to be resized before they're powered on and requiring ano...
about 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM 1 Delivered

Windows Service status

It would be great if we could see and alert on the status of Windows Services, Running, Stopped, Started etc. The current "Services" section in the configuration file is really just process monitoring. We need a clear distinction between the two.
about 2 years ago in Instana / Sensor 4 Delivered

Enhance the Airspace agent so that it will properly discover newer Airspace devices

Currently, the Airspace agent will not properly discover some of the newer Cisco Airspace wireless access points. The agent needs updating so as to discover a more complete picture of customer's network topology. CSP case was TS010298325
about 2 years ago in Tivoli Network Manager 0 Delivered

Support of Kotlin coroutines 1.6

Hello, We recently updated Kotlin coroutines to 1.6 and found out that we lost a certain amount of spans and custom tags after this upgrade. Can you plan to support at least this version shortly ? Kind Regards, Quentin
about 2 years ago in Instana / Java 4 Delivered

Custom URL Tool with UserID

Want to be able to create a customer URL tool that also shows the userID of the user that clicks on the customer URL tool. The current documentation was incorrect as it was using cookies as follows: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/networkmanager/4.2.0...
about 2 years ago in Tivoli Network Manager 0 Delivered

Turbonomic VLAN ID Merge and Mapping for vCenter portgroups with different names but same VLAN IDs

Our superclusters are spread between two VDS within vCenter, 1 for our legacy 10gbe network and the other for our 25gbe ACI network. vCenter requires the port group names to be unique and the unique naming is preventing Turbonomic from merging the...
about 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM 4 Delivered

RBAC and specific role behavior for "agent management"

- Allow users to read the agents-list while not able to change loglevel or even reset/update every agent they like- Allow users to view configuration while not being able to change it (i.e. show AP configuration but not alter it)- Allow users to s...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Access Control 1 Delivered

allow users to comment "configuration elements"

please help users to document configured elements inside Instana with comment/description-fields on at least following configuration dialogs: - Create Application Perspective - Configure Services - Configure Endpoints - Access Control – Roles - Ac...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Access Control 1 Delivered