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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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Data Insight - Support multiple owners for Reports RBAC

Currently Reports RBAC includes Public and RO permission (across all users.) A business issue arises when a Public RO (Production) Report needs to be modified while the (single) Owner is not available. This forces an admin user to manually make a ...
7 months ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) 0 Future consideration

Automatic infrastructure correlation update when HA service ip changed

Basically, infrastructure correlation works good. However, we have faced a case that the correlation is unlinked. We suspect that the phenomenon occurred when a take-over of HA (high availability) happened. In our case, we use Db2 HADR and TSA (Ti...
3 months ago in Instana / Tracing 0 Future consideration

Action Center Proof-UI: Better explaining reasons for Turbonomic's resource decisions, especially cluster scaling

If Turbonomic generates host provision actions the risk listed in the pending actions widget or in the action center is e.g. named "Clone <host name> on cloned ...". This is not the risk why Turbonomic has decided for a cluster scaling. The ...
3 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / On-Premises (Hypervisor & Storage & Network) 0 Future consideration

Enable users to be configured with a "Read Only" Role

With the extension of capabilities in AIOps to include a more "business" concepts such as "Incidents" there are a lot more users who would benefit from having a realtime view. This will enable the customer to extend the visibility of business impa...
3 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

Add support for Hitachi Vantara

Hitachi is one of the popular storage vendor widely used across enterprises and currently there is no target integration available.
7 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Target Support 2 Future consideration

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

Andoid SDK - Ability to reset Instana.sessionId programatically

Current implementation of Mobile Application Monitoring creates a session upon each fresh start of the mobile app. It would help greatly if we could programatically reset this sessionId.
10 months ago in Instana / Real User Monitoring 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

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

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