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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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Sensor/Metrics for AWS Auto Scale Groups

Would be really useful to map scaling activity across time/Alert on maximum scale reached. ASG could be also used to determine online/offline. 
almost 6 years ago in Instana / Sensor 1 Delivered

change the value of Nginx configuration "server_names_hash_bucket_size" to larger than 128

the value of nginx configuration "server_names_hash_bucket_size" is fixed with 128, which will cause the gateway pod failed to start when the length of baseDomain is larger than 128 with following error. # kubectl logs gateway-67965f476b-l8f45 -n ...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Self Hosted 1 Delivered

Need to Implement Strong encryption/encoding mechanism

The application uses weak base 64 encoding for sensitive parameters. Base 64 encoding can be easily decoded and the sensitive details can be seen in clear text. It is recommended to implement strong encryption/encoding mechanism by the security team.
over 2 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Delivered

Add Active Directory referral support to TEMS SDS client

Enables customers to benefit from the TEMS SDS security client for validating both the TEMS & TEPS login credentials where Active Directory is configured to use the LDAP referral feature. Currently the LDAP referral feature is not supported i...
over 2 years ago in ITM/IBM APM 2 Delivered

Configurable ReplicaFactor for Kafka and Replica/Sharding for ElasticSearch in K8s Operator

customer has deployed instana in production environment, has deployed instana agents on several hundreds K8S nodes. the customer IT department is heavily using instana as their observability platform Architecture of Instana Deployment: the instana...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Self Hosted 4 Delivered

Self service to create agentkey for Instana Tenant/Unit in Onprem

In self-hosted k8s based environment, customers would want to split their thousands of agent hosts into different tenants/units. It works like APM as SaaS but just for on premise. For each unit, a set of unique key are required per Instana support...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Self Hosted 1 Delivered

Use ENTITYID instead of MAINNODEENTITYID for BGP status polling

This RFE is based on initial observation and detailed discussion with L3 support. The L3 support finally concluded that such BGP event supression is impossible in the current design. With the current ITNM polling design, "Interface Filter" option...
almost 3 years ago in Tivoli Network Manager 0 Delivered

IMS TMRA tracking support for IBM Observability by Instana Application Performance Monitoring on z/OS

Our customer wants to track the transaction between WAS on Linux, IMS TMRA, IMS Connect and IMS DC/DB. But because IMS TMRA is not supported to be tracked, so they cannot see the whole transaction. They want to have the solution by 2022 Q2.
almost 3 years ago in Instana 0 Delivered

Add back missing info from Workload Designer

In IWS 9.3, Workload Designer, when looking for an object (a Job for example), it would give basic information in the search results - Job name, Workstation, Job type, last updated (or created) and who last updated it. In 9.5 the last updated and ...
almost 3 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Delivered

Retain init.cfg custom user configuration when upgrading Dynamic Agent

If people are not aware that the init.cfg is overwritten when the IWS Agent is upgraded as I was not aware, then after the upgrade event rules could stop working, e.g. event rules which monitor network shares. I feel as this would benefit everyone...
about 3 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Delivered

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