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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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Maintenance Dashboard needs Enhancement

Currently the Maintenance Dashboard has the option of creating a Maintenance Schedule for suppressing the alert but as per our audit requirements we need to have the informations about 1. Who created the schedule? 2. Why was this schedule created?...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

Host sensor needs to be able to monitor NIC status

Customers need to understand the status of their NICs to ensure that their networking is functioning properly. Currently, the Instana Host Agent only collects the performance metrics of the NICs and not the satus.
11 months ago in Instana / Agent / Sensor 0 Future consideration

Real time visibility of Security & Compliance posture/state of VMs/Servers

Ensure the clients' environments are managed according to regulatory standards (PCI, HIPPA, etc). Visibility of the posture is the key to enable that. As a Security Analyst (ISA, ISM, GSPM, Security DPE), I need real time visibility about Security...
over 4 years ago in Cloud Pak for Multicloud Management Ideas 0 Future consideration

Perform a search based on actual model.

To have the ability to search based on the actual model.I can now search on VTMOS but that shows not always the required result.
over 4 years ago in Tivoli Netcool Configuration Manager 0 Future consideration

I need TADDM Microsoft Exchange Sensor to add support for MS Exchange 2019 version.

Taddm has only "Microsoft Exhange Sensor 2003" and "Microsoft Exchange Sensor" and the two are not compatible with Exchange server 2019. I want you to help me finding solution for this issue. Thanks,
11 months ago in Tivoli Application Dependency Discovery Manager 0 Future consideration

Improve the query truncation algorithm and support formatting truncated queries.

TS014338255: NodeJS App: Stacktrace: Queries are getting trimmed at random. Improve the query truncation algorithm and support formatting truncated queries.
11 months ago in Instana / Application perspectives 0 Future consideration

TLS connections to scrape Prometheus endpoints

Allow TLS connections for connections from Instana agents/sensors instances to scrape target prometheus endpoints
11 months ago in Instana / Security and Compliance 1 Future consideration

Custom dashboard for application perspective grouping custom prometheus metrics

Up to v257 on-prem it is not possible to create custom dashoard widget panel under an application perspective for (prometheus) custom metrics (only standard metrics like calls, latency or errorneous).We want to to create custom dashboards over cus...
11 months ago in Instana / Application perspectives 3 Future consideration

Scraping of Prometheus endpoint metrics from C-Components

Affects Instana sensor and UI-backendAs a customer having to monitor custom metrics in a complex platform with heterogenous stack we need to monitor prometheus endpoint custom metrics provided be C-components, too.Please consider scraping Promethe...
11 months ago in Instana / Sensor 2 Future consideration

TADDM scan support for cygwin 3.4.9

As we tested, for now TADDM is supporting scan of hosts with cygwin only to version 3.0.7. But there is a security issue with this version, and the customer's administrator needs to use cygwin newer versions, for example 3.4.7 or 3.4.9. I think th...
11 months ago in Tivoli Application Dependency Discovery Manager 0 Future consideration