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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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Events - Event table should have the affected entity name

In the events-event table, with the title, on, started, end, timeline, state, the entity name is not present or sortable on the entity to determine if the events are focused on affected population. The on column should include the entity name not ...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Common 0 Not under consideration

All tables should be able to be sorted, filtered, shared and exportable to csv

Since there is not a way to inject custom fields/values such as a note that a specific agent, event, smart alert is a work in progress, or associated to a specific project task or incident response, we have to be able to create order listing of th...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Common 1 Under review

ITNM must cover Juniper MIBs for proper BGP status polling event supression

The reason for a need to open a new RFE is: For the RFE that was delivered previously ( TNMGR-I-140 ) for "Use ENTITYID instead of MAINNODEENTITYID for BGP status polling", in the mentioned scope (which was informed to customer earlier via email),...
about 1 month ago in Tivoli Network Manager 0 Planned for future release

Expose/Create a SevOne metadata field which contains the name of the SevOne NMS which is polling the device.

The Peer/Poller metadata field can be used to create device groups. Currently in the DI metadata report, there is a metadata field called the Peer Name / Poller Name which contains the name of the NMS system which 'owns' the device. However this m...
about 1 month ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 1 Needs more information

Metric to see inflight request in each service

How to measure inflight request in each service? Number of request processed by application or service at any point in time. This is not same as request per second. An application may get many request at a time. In that how many are actually being...
2 months ago in Instana / Application perspectives 0 Under review

Flutter Multiple Backend Configuration

Currently, Instana flutter agent (and mobile app in general) only support sending monitoring data to a single backend. For customer with high availability active-active setup, sending data to 1 backend will definitely impact the data availability....
4 months ago in Instana / Real User Monitoring 0 Future consideration

Custom Agent installation path

This request is related to a missing option that allows to define a custom path for agent installation on both Windows and Linux. The need is to install the agent in a folder other than the default folder, for security compliance reasons.
8 months ago in Instana / Agent 2 Not under consideration

Extend Turbo's parking/suspending capabilities to on-premises VMs

Extend Turbo's parking/suspending functionality to VMs in vmware/hyper-v enviornments. For all the same reasons Turbo supports parking VMs in the cloud, Turbo should extend this functionality to on-prem workloads. By turning off idle resources, Tu...

Add a description field of at least 256 characters to Groups and Policies to allow for annotation of when and why they were created for and what other objects they correspond to.

Just as this description field is used in this idea submission, a description field in the Groups and Policies will allow us to tag them with metadata that will be useful in remembering when and why we created them.
10 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 1 Future consideration

We need MessageBus probe to support OAuth2 for webhook callbackUri, to provide token to network devices

MessageBus probe webhook supports Basic Authentication and no authentication. One of Samsung elements asks for OAuth2 to callbackUri, which does not supported by messageBus. We would like to have MessageBus probe to support OAuth2 and provide toke...
2 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review