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PINNED Distribute the Instana kubectl plugin with Krew
Krew is a popular open source plugin manager for the kubectl command-line tool maintained by the Kubernetes SIG CLI community. The tool helps to discover, install, and update kubectl plugins by offering a centralised plugin repository. The usage o...
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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Establish Layer 2 connectivity between the Nokia/ALU 5529 AMS and Nokia/ALU 5620 SAM Managed Devices

Able to establish Layer 2 connectivity between the Nokia/ALU 5529 AMS (which manages the DSLAM & OLT) and Nokia/ALU 5620 SAM (which manages the Router Edge devices and others)
almost 6 years ago in Tivoli Network Manager 1 Delivered

APPD Mediator Pack enhancement for DB Metrics

In AppD mediation pack we have option to add metrics for applications. However, We have a customer requirement for the database metrics where we do not have that option.
almost 6 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 1 Delivered

Actual Usage Documentation

Instead of simply writing down the literal operation of the application and associated utilities actually describe what it does and how it accomplishes its tasks. Using snmp_walk.pl I have no idea which community string is being used, why it takes...
about 6 years ago in Tivoli Network Manager 1 Delivered

Integrate dynamic agents authentication with Kerberos

Enhance the dynamic agents authentication to integrate with the Kerberos protocol. The ticket given back by Kerberos should be stored and used later by TWS jobs to authenticate to external systems.
about 6 years ago in Workload Automation 2 Delivered

Display USRLEV setting in IWS via an operator command

With the introduction of Continuous Delivery, the USRLEV parameter can potentially be changed with new maintenance release roll-outs. To ensure that we are able to verify the USRLEV on each sysplex, we would like to have the option of displaying t...
over 6 years ago in Workload Automation 2 Delivered

Network Manager - MIB, AOC updates for Juniper

Juniper issued an update to their device inventory mib (JUNIPER-CHASSIS-DEFINES-MIB) in June 2017. First update since 2010. Reflects new device models. This request is to have the MIB updated within the Network Manager distributions, along with up...
over 6 years ago in Tivoli Network Manager 1 Delivered

Sensor for Redhat RHEV

Sensor for the discovery of 'Red Hat Virtualization' RHV - formerly known as RHEV (RHEV-H, RHEV-M).
over 6 years ago in Tivoli Application Dependency Discovery Manager 1 Delivered

NPI requires support for floating point poll data

Support the ability for the poller to store values in floating point.
over 6 years ago in Tivoli Network Manager 2 Delivered

Add TADDM Ability to try both RSA and DSA keys for SSH logins when both private keys are available on the Discovery Server

The current TADDM behavior during discovery of servers through SSH keys is to attempt to login only with one key (RSA or DSA). If both key exists, only RSA key is used. The enhancement request is to have TADDM try both the RSA and DSA keys during ...
over 6 years ago in Tivoli Application Dependency Discovery Manager 2 Delivered

Allow users to set their own default columns per object type

For the DWC user interface, under "System Configuration" > "Set User Preferences" users should be able to set their own default column set for how they want to see result lists for each object type. This user-default set of columns would be use...
over 6 years ago in Workload Automation 3 Delivered