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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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Unable to create events when DFQ entities are not monitored yet. Event creation fails instead it should issue a warning.

Issue: While creating events either via the API or from Instana user interface, Instana is not allowing to create the events where entities (referencing in the DFQ) are not yet present in the tenant unit. Below is the error message I got when an e...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Infrastructure 1 Submitted

VM Family upgrade to newer version even in case of no underutilization

We were looking if Turbo can provide any recommendation of VM Family upgrade even if there was no underutilization. For e.g when we compared the F series VM family, we could see the V2 version providing faster and cheaper VM of the same core. Whil...
4 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / General/Other 0 Future consideration

ITNM agents/stichers to discover Cisco Fabric Extender (FEX) data

Today FEX information that can be obtained from SNMP requests from Cisco devices is being ignored by the official IBM discovery agents and stitchers. Since this is official, standard data from Cisco devices, I see as counter-productive to have cus...
over 1 year ago in Tivoli Network Manager 0

Visibility of sensitive data

From the transactional portal of a client that performs a query to the iSeries and is displayed in Instana, from the “analytics” functionality some sensitive data is evidenced that must be filtered. It was detected that from a call to the database...
5 months ago in Instana / .NET 1 Planned for future release

add DBA_TABLESPACE_USAGE_METRICS to custom polling Oracle

this is usefull as 1 sec graularity for DBA_TABLESPACE_USAGE_METRICS will rise license issue in ORACLE. To add DBA_TABLESPACE_USAGE_METRICS to custom polling ensure customer not to breach ORA license as Instana Agent Remote login and read tablespa...
8 months ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Planned for future release

Add Support for AlwaysOn Clusters in addition to FCI Clusters

many organization utilize AlwaysOn instead of FCI because AlwaysOn does not require shared storage.
5 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / APM & Applications & Databases 0 Future consideration

Create an Account level policy entity type

When accounts have many different resource entity types, it's very cumbersome to create a generic policy for half a dozen resource types across dozens of accounts. If there was an Account policy type, high-level settings such as Action Generation:...
about 1 month ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 0 Under review

Enable a manual override to stop failing actions in the queue

Currently if there is an issue with permissions or a policy conflict, actions that were manually executed will continue to retry (appears to be indefinitely?) There should be a way to cancel that action so that the logs aren't filled with one-time...

Reporting 'All Devices I Can See' group

To better build out-of-the-box reports in DI, I would like to be able to select a device group that represents all devices I can see based on my UserRole. Presently, as admin, I can build a shared OOTB report based on 'All Device Groups'...when a ...
about 1 month ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 0 Future consideration

Instana events do not support adding more than five metric conditions.

Some of the situations in my customers data is comprised of more than five conditions that Instana do not support today.I am working on ITM2Instana modernisation offering and we need to transform customer's ITM data into Instana e-g, situation (ev...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Alert / MQ 0 Not under consideration