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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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OMNIbus SNMP Probe should support SNMPv3 SHA512 authentication type

Security is important for every customer and they want to use strong encryption modes. The SNMP probe is based on net-snmp 5.8 which supports SHA-512: http://www.net-snmp.org/wiki/index.php/Strong_Authentication_or_Encryption Question: Authenticat...
5 months ago in AIOps Integrations 0 Under review

Capability to sort by more than one dimension/metric

Capability to sort by more than one dimension/metric
9 days ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 0 Submitted

Be able to create parenthesis in filter and select if AND or OR. For example be able to filter for vendor AWS, usage family Storage and for Azure, usage family Instances (vendor=AWS AND usage family = storage) OR (vendor=Azure AND usage family=Instances)

Be able to create parenthesis in filter and select if AND or OR. For example be able to filter for vendor AWS, usage family Storage and for Azure, usage family Instances (vendor=AWS AND usage family = storage) OR (vendor=Azure AND usage family=Ins...
9 days ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 0 Submitted

Be able to create parenthesis in filter and select if AND or OR

Be able to create parenthesis in filter and select if AND or OR. For example be able to filter for vendor AWS, usage family Storage and for Azure, usage family Instances (vendor=AWS AND usage family = storage) OR (vendor=Azure AND usage family=Ins...
9 days ago in Cloudability / Cloudability MSP 0 Submitted

Capability to sort by more than one dimension/metric

Capability to sort by more than one dimension/metric
9 days ago in Cloudability / Cloudability MSP 0 Submitted

NFS support

Please extend your code to allow pods to use NFS without creation of PV. support documentation can be found here: https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/storage/volumes/#nfs
17 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / General/Other 0 Submitted

Retrieve multiple alerts AlertID values stored in a single variable when executing a right click tool

In the alert view, it is possible to select multiple alerts and execute a Right-Click tool. The expected result is that the tool returns the AlertID for all selected alerts, however it only returns one. This behaviour can be used in many scenarios...
25 days ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review

Missing node/component should be expressed for a longer term in the infrastructure map for traditional systems

In the infrastructure map, when the node or component is down ( metric is not sent to the backend ), that node/component is not displayed in the Infrastructure map anymore. This is a good design for cloud native systems, each container lifecycle i...
25 days ago in Instana / Infrastructure 0 Submitted

Table widgets don't allow Application (Traces and Calls) and Logs as Data Source

Table widgets don't allow to add Application (Traces and Calls) or Logs as Data Source. There are several dashboard requirement where table structure for display data. Should also support heatmaps for data.
4 months ago in Instana / Business Systems / Portal 3 Needs more information

On IBM AIX, Instana should not count filecache (completely) as "used_memory"

AIX by default uses available memory as filecache (between limits set by parameters minperm% and maxperm%), usually up to 90% of the total memory size. When the applications use only a small portion of available memory, the remainder (or large par...
2 months ago in Instana / IBM Power 0 Under review