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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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License expiration notification should be configurable

Currently, all users accessing Instana will get a notification that the license is about to expire 30 days prior to license end date. This notification should be configurable, allowing admins to enable and configure it. Configuration of who gets t...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Business Systems / Portal 1 Future consideration

LDAP Storage Class for NOI instance must be required not optional

When you try to make a new NOI 1.6.8 instance the storage class parameter for LDAP is not required but optional, if a storage class is not selected the installation proceeds but fails to complete successfully so setting this option as required wou...
over 1 year ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

Suppoert Hardware Management Console (HMC) v9 and 10 or higher

I currently have lost the ability to discover HMC as the Unix admins have updated the product to v10. TADDM currenly only supports v8 or lower. Need to support v10+
10 months ago in Tivoli Application Dependency Discovery Manager 0 Future consideration

Alert Audit Log, basically a trail of when an alert (not events) was sent out, who to, which channel, what payload, etc…

We would like to ask for a feature to allow for Alerts to be protocolled and saved (kind of an Alert Audit Log). Basically, a trail of when an alert (not events) was sent out, who to, what payload, etc…Website and Applications use Smart Alerts. I ...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Alert 0 Future consideration

Customer wants a more sophisticated Turbonomic system status page

The customer is concerned with hard outages and soft (data) outages. Wants to see this on one page. - like apple or datadog platform status page. Can we pull the details of the current System Health and System Alert pages into one cohesive page. A...
3 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / General/Other / SaaS 2 Future consideration

Need provide appropriate solution for EUM to collect data using gateway

Dear colleagues, following the Standard Instana deployment instructions in the dashboard to set EUM monitoring doesn't allow to determine IP Address because Instana gateway configuration doesn't have proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr; config...
3 months ago in Instana / Real User Monitoring 0 Future consideration

The policy based alert based on flow conditions also to send out a flow output

This is useful in organisations to rapidly have the information available for i.e top talkers whilst a high utilisation event is being triggered.
3 months ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 3 Future consideration

HANA DB Sensor - Display built in Events for DBA Jobs

Display built in Events for DBA Jobs
3 months ago in Instana / Common 0 Future consideration

Existing Incident Correlation in Customer ITSM with AIOps Generated Alerts

In some customer environments, application end users may create tickets in their ITSM portals along with any other monitoring system alerts. This creates additional noise and overhead for the operational teams to investigate and link to another kn...
7 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

Improve the agent deployment process : have a dev/prod or beta/stable type of release

I/we would like to have a discussion about how agents are released into the "Dynamic Agent." What we are talking about is how the .jar files are pulled from maven into the dynamic agent. Today, you have a few options in how your agents work. If...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Agent 0 Future consideration