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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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Default MSL *LINUX_SYSTEMS should segregate the rhel 7 & 8 versions.

There are certain process which are different in rhel7 & rhel8 so while creating situaiton for these process monitoring it is difficult to separate the OS versions. and it will be huge effort in larger environment to manually creating separate...
almost 2 years ago in ITM/IBM APM 2 Not under consideration

WebGUI 8.1 : Column add comments directly to that field without right click tool

Users requested to have “new” field (similar to Journal), so that it is possible to add comments directly to that field, without opening new window (right click tool). According to requirement it should work like in excel sheet. Additionally, user...
almost 4 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Not under consideration

Linux Running Services in Data Model and Data portal

The Data model is missing Linux Services. It currently has Windows services only.I would like to see Linux services added to the data model; Have Linux Sensor populate the data into the model and have that information displayed in the data portal ...
almost 4 years ago in Tivoli Application Dependency Discovery Manager 1 Not under consideration

Huawei Corba TMF814 more information in connections

In the visualization of connections in Network Hop View should be improved in order to show the users more information without the need to open the Structure View to check the endpoints. Currently we have only the ifDescr in the connection tooltip...
almost 6 years ago in Tivoli Network Manager 10 Not under consideration

Verify via API when the Nightly Plans Are Completed

Some customers run overnight processes to evaluate capacity and availability data from Turbo to be integrated into other internal systems. These programs need to run only after our Nightly Plans process has finished up. They have requested a simpl...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / APIs 1 Not under consideration

Single pane to view all restarted containers and pods for a deployment

At present there is no single view to see the graphs related to contianers those are created after restart of pods in a deployment. As these all containers belong to same deployment they should show restart-event and continuous graph related to co...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Kubernetes 7 Not under consideration

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...
almost 8 years ago in Tivoli Application Dependency Discovery Manager 1 Not under consideration

Instana on Openshift to use default ingress certificate

Hi, We install instana on openshift on my customer environment, customer wants that instana to use default ingress certificate for itself and not give tls.key and tls.crt files again on instana installation on openshift container platform.Because ...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Self Hosted 1 Not under consideration

Tivoli Configuration Manager - Device Support

Requesting a device driver to be added for the following Cisco router: VTMOS - Cisco/Router/C1111/16.9.5Cisco IOS XE Software, Version 16.09.05 Cisco IOS Software
almost 4 years ago in Tivoli Netcool Configuration Manager 4 Not under consideration

Command Line tools to remove decommissioned agents

Customer uses APM for years and he is looking for a solution on removing decommissioned, old agents in an automated way. Based on APM documentation, old, decommissioned agents disappear from APM only when these agent instances do not appear in any...
almost 2 years ago in ITM/IBM APM 1 Not under consideration