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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?
PINNED Instana on OpenShift Route Flexibility
Hi, My customer has a question about Instana route definitions on OCP. Basically, they have an OCP console address like console-openshift-console.apps.ocpcluster.ibm.com. According to the document; - basedn URL should be like instana.apps.ocpclust...

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Improve the ITNM mustgather script and provide in the code with future fixpack releases

Currently the itnm_data.pl mustgather script is provided in a technote available for download here: https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/collect-data-ibm-tivoli-network-manager-ip We would like to see this included in the code so that it is available...
about 1 year ago in Tivoli Network Manager 2 Delivered

Add resourceId to the actions api endpoint

Adding the resourceId to the actions api endpoint would be useful for users so that actions can be easily linked back to the azure resources that they are being taken on. This will also allow users to create savings reports where they can easily i...
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / APIs / Public Cloud IaaS / Public Cloud PaaS & DBaaS 1 Delivered

Support IMDSv2 on AWS

AWS and security guidelines are pushing for IMDSv2 to improve the security posture and prevent credential exfiltration and information leakage through SSRF. https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/configuring-instance-metadata-service....
about 1 year ago in Instana / Sensor 1 Delivered

net-disco configuration shall be stored in PersistentVolumeClaims

as net-disco always needs some hotfixes and configuration changes, the changes shall survive a pod restart. Stitchers, disco configs, etc
almost 2 years ago in Tivoli Network Manager 2 Delivered

ITNM Webtools not working with devices that require SHA2 envryption

ITNM webtools that uses SSH to run the commands remotely on devices that require SHA2 are failing because ITNM uses only SHA1 currentl. More details can be found at IBM case TS006186609.
over 2 years ago in Tivoli Network Manager 0 Delivered

OpenTelemetry Infrastructure correlation improvement

The customer is using the standard Otel protocol exporter (via http/grpc) and sends data to the instana agent on the host. https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-dotnet/tree/main/src/OpenTelemetry.Exporter.OpenTelemetryProtocol They can s...
8 months ago in Instana / Other Tracers 8 Delivered

Envoy proxy default address/port and sensor configuration

Preface: Currently monitoring envoy proxy metrics appears to REQUIRE setting the --admin-address-path command line flag. https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=technologies-monitoring-envoy-proxy#configuration Two ideas: S...
over 1 year ago in Instana / C / Team Proxies 2 Delivered

APM ISM performance issue

When an APM ISM agent (on the Linux platform) has a large number of active profile elements (200, 300. etc.), after restarting the ISM agent, profile deployment, or any change of profile elements, the ISM agent takes a long time (2-3 hours) to con...
over 1 year ago in ITM/IBM APM 1 Delivered

Tibco EMS Monitoring: Change number of queues / topic

When monitoring Tibco EMS the maximum number of queues or topics which can be monitored are limited to 200. This should be changed to any value the customer might want to choose knowing the possible impact that might have.
over 1 year ago in Instana / Sensor 2 Delivered

ASM Jobs that hit the max_capacity of 10 should pend and then retry, rather than go to Failed. (On prem version and possibly cloud version too)

We have a lot of VMWare observer jobs on ASM 1.1.16 on prem that occasionally hit the max_capacity value set to 10. The jobs go into a Failed state and never restart unless manually restarted. ASM should have a Pending or Waiting state and retry t...
about 1 year ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Delivered