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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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Signing Instana agent images

Instana agent images should be digitally signed to verify content integrity.
over 2 years ago in Instana / Agent 0 Not under consideration

Improving Resiliency #1: re-attaching "running OS processes" in secondary node after a failover

Whenever a failover happens, we need the Agents to be capable of re-attaching the running OS processes (attached to each individual SAP Jobs) when its services are restarted/failed-over from Site A to Site B.
about 1 year ago in Workload Automation 1 Not under consideration

Built-in Event on docker container - CPU Usage

Hi team, Currently, on the docker container entity type, there is only one built in event (on the memory) : https://instana.io/s/oAKdnEMqQtuTNHKaq1JBAw We would like to know if it's planned to have a built in event also on the CPU usage which woul...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Sensor 2 Not under consideration

Add VMWare Cluster to TADDM Integration Plugin (for ServiceNow)

We require the TADDM Integration ServiceNow Plugin to be able to send VMWare Clustering CI and relationship data to the appropriate cmdb_ci_vmware_cluster table (and also associated VMWare cluster resource tables) in ServiceNow.
over 3 years ago in Tivoli Application Dependency Discovery Manager 1 Not under consideration

Providing a Dashboard to List Release Markers across environments/tenants

Today, we have a Release marker feature to let us know when the release was made. As we started using this feature, it could be enhanced by allowing us to create dashboards to understand the release flows from one environment to another and get a ...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 1 Not under consideration

data retention be extended for beyond 365 days for active as well as ceased devices

For some customers it is essential to have the historic data for more than 12 months. Hence need to have feasibility to extent the retention period beyond 365 days. Also same retention should be available for the devices which are not currently be...
about 1 year ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 3 Not under consideration

Session timeout for Netcool/OMNIbus Administrator

From security/compliance perspective, there is a need for enforcing session timeouts for Netcool/OMNIbus Administrator & Event List.In case of any inactivity of user-admin logged into Netcool/OMNIbus Administrator, a session/inactivity timeout...
over 3 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 4 Not under consideration

File Association in Work item Perspective

Current Behavior of the tool :In ECU.WORX.ALM work Item perspective, only text editor is set by default for text files. But If user tries to open other files like *.mic,xml, etc. it gives an error. Enhancement Request:To show other files content l...
over 3 years ago in Cloud Pak for Network Automation / Orchestration 2 Not under consideration

On demand filters for monitoring data

We're using the Instana API to keep our configuration identical across multiple Instana backends that exist for our different production environemnts. To simplify our process and improve useability of the tooling, we'd be interested in the possibi...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Application perspectives 1 Not under consideration

Setting Delay in sending threshold trap to destination

If we impose a delay suppose 5 min , It will be helpful to avoid the alerts which are clearing in 5 minutes of time not send to netcool or the destination event manager and subsequently we can avoid these tickets. Now due to lack of this feature ,...
about 1 year ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 5 Not under consideration