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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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Custom Template Sensor - Support pushing scripts to the target server before running executeCommandWithTimeout

There seems to be no way of pushing scripts to the target server before running executeCommandWithTimeout. We have solved this on Linux by code in the sensor.py by rsyncing scripts to the target server. This should be standard feature, so adding s...
over 7 years ago in Tivoli Application Dependency Discovery Manager 1 Not under consideration

Ability to customize & create banners in IWO

A tiny customizable banner at the top of the page would allow us to inform users when we have planned actions. It would also allow us to provide helpful information, such as if there is a temporary outage or data is missing, etc.
almost 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 1 Not under consideration

nco_pa_remove_entry

At the moment it is possible to add entries in the nco_pa by using the commandline tool nco_pa_add_entry, but it is not possible to remove an entry. Therefore we need for automatic changes with ansible a toll wich removed an existing entry from th...
almost 4 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Not under consideration

Offline events for critical infra components

The current Instana alerting isn't picking up when a critical infra component is off the map. I.e. a system that was previously receiving a large amount of calls suddenly is gone (i.e. a database back-end). REWE suggest that Instana should "know" ...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 2 Not under consideration

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?
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities / Self Hosted 2 Not under consideration

Application Perspective: Sorting by infrastructure

Currently it is not possible to sort the table in infrastructure-tab of services and APs by the first column
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 1 Not under consideration

Allow for local administrative login while utilizing SSO/MFA

When using MFA/SSO with Turbonomic it will only allow for login via that MFA/SSO provider. If something changes or the login no longer functions, it is then impossible to access the Turbonomic UI. I believe it would be a good idea to leave some so...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Authentication & Security 1 Not under consideration

Would love to see a VPN feature for targets that sit behind one

When creating demos for customers, we don't always get access to their production environment during pre-poc stages. I was attempting to connect a Azure ROKS instance where Turbonomic is installed to another techzone instance of a vCenter for samp...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Target Support 1 Not under consideration

Characters that Netcool cannot use

OS:AIX 7.1 TL5SP4SW:Netcool/OMNIbus 7.4 I am using nco_postmsg to send a message to ObjectServer.A part of the message was missing because there were metacharacters and quotation marks in the sent message.
almost 4 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Not under consideration

Possibility to configure ulimits of instana containers (docker-based on-premise setup)

We recently had an issue with the max amount of open files per container. The Instana support told us, that there is currently no option to configure that. We'd love to configure that for specific containers in the settings.hcl file.
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Self Hosted 3 Not under consideration