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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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increasing the characters displayed on the UI for a string type column

For ITM SQL agent -- customized SQL part , number of characters displayed on the UI for a string type column is limited to 64, due to which messages > then 64 characters are truncated, due to this we are not able to monitor messages more then 6...
over 1 year ago in ITM/IBM APM 0 Delivered

Openshift kubelet monitoring using Prometheus

I'm looking for a way to monitor the Openshift Prometheus metrics, more specifically the metrics that are exposed by kubelet. kubelet exposes a metric called 'kubelet_volume_stats_available_bytes', but i can't find it in the list of metrics that t...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Kubernetes / Sensor 3 Delivered

Change operational principles of burned elements

The Customer uses substitution devices in critical infrastructure nodes in the event of a failure of the main devices. substituted devices use the same IP, but vary in the sysName and physical address. An additional requirement from the customer i...
over 4 years ago in Cloud Pak for Network Automation / Performance 1 Delivered

Support apache http client 5.X

The apache http client version 5.x has now been released for 3 years and is meeting a large adoption as a replacement for the 4.x client. Instana should add support for this client.
over 1 year ago in Instana / Java 1 Delivered

A new JBoss 7 Sensor dicovery

The current JBoss7 discovery in a managed domain, when an environment is discovered for the first time, it expected to start with the discovery of a host, which acts as a JBoss domain controller, and then it is possible to run a discovery of domai...
about 6 years ago in Tivoli Application Dependency Discovery Manager 3 Delivered

PHP 8.2 support

PHP 8.2 was released on 8 December 2022. Instana only supports 8.1, see https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=technologies-monitoring-php#supported-versions
over 1 year ago in Instana / PHP 2 Delivered

kubeturbo capability to execute rollout command after making change on Deployment Config in OpenShift 3.11 environment

A prospect with a large OpenShift environment has legacy 3.11 clusters which "ConfigChange" triggers are not defined (empty). In this scenario, k8s will not automatically initiate a rollout with a change that kubeturbo made to the spec template. T...
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Container Platforms (K8s & OpenShift) 1 Delivered

ITNM not discovering the CSR routers from Ericsson ENM

Current ITNM Ericsson ENM collector doesn't discover CSR's.
over 1 year ago in Tivoli Network Manager 0 Delivered

Support for SHA256 and SHA512 authentication protocols (ISM - snmpwalk)

The Customer needs support for SHA256 and SHA512 authentication protocols when using snmpwalk via ISM agent while monitoring Checkpoint devices. In the latest R81 software for Checkpoint, sha1 and md5 protocols are no longer available which means ...
about 3 years ago in ITM/IBM APM 0 Delivered

Secure POwershell setting to ignore certificate warnings

Have a gateway scoped property in collation.properties that allows SSL powershell discovery to ignore the CN, the CA and Revocation checks to allow self-signed certificates. e.g. properties like com.collation.discover.powershell.*.skipca=truecom.c...
over 6 years ago in Tivoli Application Dependency Discovery Manager 1 Delivered