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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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Allow failover impact server in RBA configuration

When configuring RBA in a hybrid environment, with the Impact cluster on premise, there is only one option to configure the impact connection. There is no place to specify a backup server. if the primary impact server stopped, one would have to ...
about 2 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 1 Not under consideration

Allow customization of name for traceId value in Java MDC

Instana automatically populates the MDC with the trace ID. The MDC variable name is instana.trace.id. See https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=technologies-monitoring-java-virtual-machine#logging-mdc-populated-with-the-t...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Java 3 Not under consideration

Need VM and Volume group filter for entity criticality (for both on-prem and cloud)

Need VM and Volume group filter for entity criticality (for both on-prem and cloud) to be able to send only actions for certain groups of VMs and Volumes that are for performance to ServiceNow during a certain time frame and other actions that are...
about 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 3 Not under consideration

When viewing a VM / Pod the user should have access to a terminal for access / running commands

When scoping to a VM / Pod we show actions that can be performed on the entities. However, some customers would also like to do some sort of independent debugging. If we have a terminal in the UI we can allow for the user to stay within Turbonomic...
about 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 0 Not under consideration

Create operand to delete operators when uninstalling MCM v2.0.0

When uninstalling MCM v2.0.0 the user should have the ability to use an out-of-the-box operand to uninstall all of the operators MCM v2.0.0 creates. It is tedious to delete every operator when an install goes wrong.
about 4 years ago in Cloud Pak for Multicloud Management Ideas 0 Not under consideration

Using Kustomize to Simplify Client Configuration

Kustomize is a declarative management tool that allows users to create different variants or configurations of a base yaml. A tool like this can assist our clients configure our product during the installation process.
about 4 years ago in Cloud Pak for Multicloud Management Ideas 0 Not under consideration

Support runtime data collectors to monitor applications using gRPC

When deploying an application that uses gRPC with the runtime data collector, that is, even if the communication between the kubernetes services is other than HTTP/HTTPS, it can be viewed the service dependency topology and the transaction sequenc...
over 4 years ago in Cloud Pak for Multicloud Management Ideas 0 Not under consideration

Agent configuration file should support more alternative solutions to hide clear text passwords than HashiCorp Vault.

Security teams in enterprise customers are not approving passwords to be stored in clear text format in agent configuration yaml file. According to the current documentation of Instana, only solution provided to this issue is HashiCorp Vault (http...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Tracing 4 Not under consideration

Check the supplied hostname format before starting the install process.

When standing up a new Turbo VM from the OVA there is an option to run the ./t8c.sh script and pass a -h modifier followed by the desired host name of the VM - so it is not named the default node1. If a hostname is supplied with an improper format...
about 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / General/Other 1 Not under consideration

CustomAppServer to support script-based discovery mode

Bendigo and Adelaide Bank Limited (BABL) have worked with Aricent (an IBM development partner) over the last 12 months to create the ability to discover devices behind firewalls by utilising our BigFix infrastructure - this removes the need to imp...
over 6 years ago in Tivoli Application Dependency Discovery Manager 1 Not under consideration