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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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Have the possibility to set up minimum number of hosts AND a odd/even constraint for suspension/provision hosts in cluster

Many customers have "streched" VMware clusters (I'm not talking about VSAN clusters, but regular clusters, being just spread in two rooms or two DCs). Turbonomic might recommend suspend actions in the live market and in "optimize on-prem" plans bu...
about 2 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / On-Premises (Hypervisor & Storage & Network) 0 Under review

Support for Cassandra Monitoring for DSE 6.8.48

Currently version of Instana supports Cassandra monitoring for (DSE) 6.0.x, 6.7.17, 6.8 to 6.8.42 . Support for DSE 6.8.48 series will help teams to have complete Cassandra monitoring in Instana.
about 1 month ago in Instana / SRE 0 Under review

Enable the Netcool Ping Probe to read the PingFile via http(s) or ftp as per the rules files.

We have multiple ping servers due to the number of servers that need to be verified and network restrictions. Management of distributed rules/lookups is made easy as NC_RULES_HOME is set to an http site, hence rules can be centrally published and ...
about 1 month ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review

Kafka Sensor: Support Kafka Kraft Deployments

In Kafka Zookeeper deployments are deprecated since Confluent kafka 7.5 https://docs.confluent.io/platform/current/kafka-metadata/zk-production.html Even though IBM Instana Kafka Agent supports Confluent Kafka 7.7.1 according to Support Sheet http...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Agent 0 Under review

ENCRYPTED PASSWORD SECURITY IN DB2 METRICS MONITORING

We were trying to setup remote DB2 monitoring, however connection is failing. Our DB2 admin told us, he is using options securityMechanism=7;encryptionAlgorithm=2 when connecting to that DB2 using jdbc. By my understanding that really means User I...
3 months ago in Instana / DB2 0 Under review

Create New Role for Portfolio Admins

We would like to have a new role established that is able to maintain their portfolio(s) just like an admin role, but limited to their assigned portfolio. This role should help with decentralized administration of portfolio(s). This new role is on...
8 days ago in Targetprocess / User Management 0 Under review

Integration of Unit Testing for zCentric Agent Plugin Development

To make the plugin development process for the zCentric Agent more efficient and error-free, it is proposed to extend the existing framework by adding the ability for developers to create unit tests that simulate the agent's behavior. This would a...
18 days ago in Workload Automation 0 Under review

Sevone API critical functionalities

The requested API functionalities will assist us in running multiple processes needed to interact with SevOne, such as bulk device onboarding with connectivity verifications (SNMP & Traceroute), monitoring validations using object rules and po...
9 days ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 1 Under review

Use license cost in placement/scaling decisions

During our Tech Day at PWC, Jerry Trollo related a problem he had with Turbonomic actions. They have a Rancher cluster where they took Turbonomic actions to optimize the nodes. In doing so, they saved $500k in node costs. Unfortunately, due to the...
19 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Target Support 0 Under review

Support for Apache Tomcat Sensor on native IBM i agent

This is beneficial to support tracing on Tomcat for java based web applications.
about 1 month ago in Instana / IBM i 0 Under review