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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 ...
almost 8 years ago in Tivoli Application Dependency Discovery Manager 2 Delivered

Update the twsinst script that comes with fixpack 9.4 so that either the temporary directory is not hardcoded as /tmp

Please update the twsinst script that comes with the fixpack install so that the TWA_TEMP variable is either an option or points to the /tmp instead of /tmp. Filling the temp file system has an impact on other applications on the server and not ju...
about 8 years ago in Workload Automation 4 Delivered

IBM Observability by Instana

Hello, I want to submit a new idea (cosmectic idea) about for the field "age". We have only a format with hours but we are solliciting to have a new format with "days_hours_minutes" instead.For the moment, minutes are troncated. So 1 hour and 43 m...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities / Kubernetes 5 Delivered

CNEA - Event Viewer - Maintain the subgroups within the main large group

CNEA - In Event Viewer maintain the subgroups within the main large group after the correlating alarms is complete. Current status - it brings in subgroups, but finally it flattens all alarms within the main parent. We need the subgroups intact, s...
over 2 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 1 Delivered

Would like to define Warning and Critical threshold ranges within a single Event or SmartAlert

If a customer wants to create both a Warning and Critical threshold for the same underlying metric, they create either 2 Smart Alerts or 2 Events. For example, create a Warning Event when CPU usage is between 80% and 90% utilization and Critical E...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Alert 2 Delivered

Solve cookie caching problem that impacts application monitoring

Since the inception of the BOD we have consistently seen problems with some of the embedded UIs, especially ICAM, because their cookie lifecycles are not aligned with the parent MCM UI. This means users will sometimes get prompted for a login when...
over 5 years ago in Cloud Pak for Multicloud Management Ideas 0 Delivered

Prompt to Confirm UI Delete Function

In The UI, when the user chooses to delete a reservation or a target, we would like an "Are You Sure" type of prompt to confirm that the Delete is truly purposeful and not something accidental. This feature will help save time and aggravation when...
over 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 1 Delivered

Provide more information on-demand costs in the Recommendation download file for VMs

I would like to see both the on demand costs for the downsized machines both with ROI and without the ROI as it will be more helpful on calculation savings from the on demand
over 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 4 Delivered

INM cross domain topology discovery

Global Topology issuing SSH to check ISIS protocol.. Regional Edge routers are using the ISIS protocol but currently IBM is limited to SSH to devices to get ISIS status.
over 2 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Delivered

WebSphere Java metrics obtained directly from the Dynatrace probe

Turbonomic Dynatrace probe does not currently support Heap and GC metrics specifically for WebSphere. The supported method for collecting this data is through the native WebSphere probe. If the Dynatrace probe support WebSphere metrics fully then ...
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Target Support 2 Delivered