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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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In the "Oracle RAC" configuration, we would like to be able to monitor without using "SCAN IP" or "SCAN hostname."

Instana's monitoring of "Oracle RAC" only supports "SCAN IP" or "SCAN hostname." Therefore, we would like to be able to monitor in the "Oracle RAC" configuration without using "SCAN IP" or "SCAN hostname." There are "Oracle RAC" configurations w...
5 months ago in Instana / Agent 1 Future consideration

Use "Alias" naming convention to replace "Account Name" for AWS data

For AWS data, use Alias feature to display account name. Customer would like to leverage this Apptio. Is there a way for Apptio to leverage the “alias” name instead of the actual Account name. The AWS portals display the “alias” name itself.
28 days ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization 0 Submitted

syslog - 8 level(s) of notification - Customizing the SevOne alert levels for the 8 levels of Syslog Message.

When a syslog message is received by SevOne, we decide what color alert it gets. Currently there are default 8 levels of Syslog. Can those 8 colors be customized per NMS cluster instance? Like make it a whole new setting under "Cluster" > "clus...
28 days ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 3 Under review

Azure default configuration.yaml and documentation is very misleading

When looking at the default configuration.yaml for Azure and looking at the documentation, it is very misleading. And, it does not follow standard documentation principals. It causes confusion and causes customers to specify invalid configurations...
28 days ago in Instana / Azure 0 Submitted

Add Concert integration

Please add the IBM Concert integration to the automation library. This will allow us to start developing templates for the joint operation between the two products. Here is the Swagger: https://developer.ibm.com/apis/catalog/PRODUCT--concert--ibm-...
28 days ago in Rapid Network Automation 1 Functionality already exists

Adding a feature to display Oracle metrics in Instana

The Oracle metrics that can be displayed in Instana are listed at the following URL: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=technologies-monitoring-oracledb#metrics-collection Since "temp db" and "temp tablespace" are not ...
5 months ago in Instana / Metric Store 0 Planned for future release

Integrate policy scheduling for on prem actions by scheduled maintenance windows

We had purchased a custom integration which was crafted by Ray Mileo and John Fabry which integrates scheduled maintenance windows in our turbonomic solution which creates policies based on configured maintenance windows / patching cycles of our W...
3 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / On-Premises (Hypervisor & Storage & Network) 0 Needs more information

Enable Synthetic Test Metric Collection for Custom Dashboards

Summary:We would like to request the ability to capture and store custom metrics gathered during the execution of synthetic tests in IBM Instana. These metrics, which can be extracted from SQL queries, API responses, or other synthetic test result...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Synthetic 0 Under review

Instana to monitor IBM DataPower Gateway Physical appliance to do end-to-end observability solution for IBM API solution.

My Clients in Thailand have applications expose service to consumers by API and using IBM solution that inclide [1] IBM DataPower Gateway  Physical appliance [2] APIConnect on CP4I . They plan to use Instana to do end-to-end observability but now...
8 months ago in Instana / DataPower 1 Not under consideration

Job Management Plugin needs to be able to rerun jobs in different Streams

For a very simple process that needs to rerun a job in the same stream this works fine. But the use of this would more likely be handled by a simple job rerun setting or maybe a recovery job. To make this far more useful the plugin should also be ...
6 months ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration