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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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Automatic infrastructure correlation update when HA service ip changed

Basically, infrastructure correlation works good. However, we have faced a case that the correlation is unlinked. We suspect that the phenomenon occurred when a take-over of HA (high availability) happened. In our case, we use Db2 HADR and TSA (Ti...
2 months ago in Instana / Tracing 0 Submitted

Action Center Proof-UI: Better explaining reasons for Turbonomic's resource decisions, especially cluster scaling

If Turbonomic generates host provision actions the risk listed in the pending actions widget or in the action center is e.g. named "Clone <host name> on cloned ...". This is not the risk why Turbonomic has decided for a cluster scaling. The ...
2 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / On-Premises (Hypervisor & Storage & Network) 0 Future consideration

Enable users to be configured with a "Read Only" Role

With the extension of capabilities in AIOps to include a more "business" concepts such as "Incidents" there are a lot more users who would benefit from having a realtime view. This will enable the customer to extend the visibility of business impa...
2 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

The UI needs to handle failed Administrative Data Tasks.

It is quite common for an administrative task that leverages Kafka to timeout and fail. Leaving the task in a hung up condition. The present procedure to clear these issues is running 2 or 3 calls to swagger to clear the condition. These calls are...
5 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review

EUM Crash Reporting - Limit or disable sending crash report

We have currently roughly 10 M app user and want to use crash reporting funtionality.In this cause we are looking for a way to limit or deact end-user to send crash reporting e.g. by config, to limit overload of network and protect instana backend...
5 months ago in Instana / Real User Monitoring 4 Not under consideration

Enhancing Maintenance mode bug

When someone puts 1 device into maintenance mode it only shows the first 6 digits of the device name. However, many clients have similar long naming conventions and you canno't differentiate between devices with the same 6 digit prefix.
about 1 year ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 0 Is a defect

Modify Custom Zone and Tags of the agents from Instana web UI

Currently when we wish to modify the custom zone or the tags for one agent, we need to connect to the host, go to the configuration.yaml and change the file. For security reason, it isn't always possible to connect manually to the host. I wish to ...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Agent 6 Not under consideration

Would like a ROLE similar to Automator but with the ability to create Templates

Useful because then we won't have to assign the Administrator ROLE to an account used by an automation Service. Automator is missing the ability to create Templates.
7 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Authentication & Security 0 Future consideration

Enhance the storage Limit of 64 kb for the alerts.status

After including analytics and runbook automation the amount of storage increase in the alerts.staus. We will change to Watson AIOps, but this is not possible the IBM internal fields use the bigest part of the hard limit of 64kB of the alerts.statu...
about 3 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

Add agent support for Solaris Branded zones

FTAs and DAs are supported on Solaris native Global and Local zones, but are not currently supported on Solaris Branded zones.
about 1 year ago in Workload Automation 1 Not under consideration