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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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Display Scope Set Name Used for Load-Balanced Discovery in History Pane

We are running load-balanced discoveries against scope groups that contain many individual scope set entries.The individual scope sets contain a VLAN range in our internal and external networks and the scope set's name reflects the VLAN name. This...
over 7 years ago in Tivoli Application Dependency Discovery Manager 1 Not under consideration

discovery and Ping polling to VRF interface with HSRP on Nexus

We need to be able to discover and ping polling to the IP addresses on physical interfaces on HSRP with VRF environment on Nexus. When ITNM discover HSRP with VRF's between 2 devices, ITNM sometimes defined the physical or virtual IP address as a ...
over 7 years ago in Tivoli Network Manager 2 Not under consideration

Implementation of log suppression function with "CRI-O"

We would like to deal with this problem as soon as possible. Since I want to suppress the output of Instana Log, I was previously taught how to support it. However, the adapted method is log suppression for "containerd" and cannot be applied to lo...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Common 2 Not under consideration

Possible to see workstation pools associated or defined for an agent workstation.

TWS version 8.6.0.1TDWC version 8.6.0.1Possible to see workstation pools associated or defined for an agent workstation.In critical situations where a server with a TWS agent goes down or have severe performance problems, it is necessary,to identi...
almost 12 years ago in Workload Automation 7 Not under consideration

Differentiate between Agent and JVM offline events.

It is not possible to differentiate between a JVM going offline and if there is a communication drop with the Instana agent. This has been discussed with IBM support TS013050872. Request for service improvement to be able to tell the difference so...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Agent 1 Not under consideration

My customer would like to establish a fee structure for SMB.

Background I understand that Turbonomic's target is the users who have large system which is composed over 500 VMs. My customer is considering embedding Turbonomic to their own cloud management service, and they try to sell it to SMB. Issues Curre...
about 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Billing & Costs & Discounts 0 Not under consideration

Java Object in heap memory

Could it be possible to add the possibility to have a look on the Java Objects in the heap memory ? Currently we could see the threads that are waiting or consuming a lot of CPUs but we cannot see which objects in the heap memory are taking up a l...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Java 1 Not under consideration

Limiting host agent CPU installed using Archive (tar.gz) technology

The agent is being installed using the static host agent tar.gz file provided by the Backend, the compress file is copied and extracted on the target host. Then, the agent is configured as needed. Using the archive technology (tar.gz) you can limi...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Agent 1 Not under consideration

Capability to customize NPI Network Performance Overview Dashboard

Capability to customize Network Performance Overview Dashboard on NPI to remove some of the statistic that are not use.
over 5 years ago in Cloud Pak for Network Automation 2 Not under consideration

Launching configuration from the TEPS JWS client using Open Webstart

In case of Open Webstart possibility you should be able to configure and open all the option that ITM TEPS console has.
about 2 years ago in ITM/IBM APM 1 Not under consideration