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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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Way to calculate license usage of product with new IP address based licensing that excludes COC objects

Hi, with new IP addressing based licensing calculations we should calculate from device manager amount of IP addresses. There are also COC objects there in the listing which also have IP addresses. Requesting a way to exclude those COC objects so ...
about 1 year ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 0 Future consideration

Configure Default Time-Zone for all DWC users.

As per Development team (CASE#TS013905559) - "At the time of installation of DWC, it will take server Time-zone by default and the same will display in DWC as well. Later if you want to change time-zone you can change by using "User Settings ->...
about 1 year ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

Allow blocking of entries to Agent Log File

Instana Agent Logs specifically for both Solaris and Windows OS that monitors our JBOSS platforms is showing the same error against all active PIDS. This is not seen in the Instana SaaS Dashboard for the AP or in the JBOSS logs, it is only within ...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Java / Sensor / Tracing 1 Future consideration

able to have an option to change EUM reportingURL in snippet in the UI.

Currently in Instana K8s operator the AcceptorUrls seem to be solely based on the baseDomain. This is then used also in the UI in EUM Website Configuration in reportingUrl and script src, e.g.: <script> (function(s,t,a,n){s[t]||(s[t]=a,n=s[a...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Real User Monitoring / Self Hosted 0 Future consideration

Support IPv6

Provide IPv6 into ICAM: for hosting ICAM for managing workloads through ICAM, typically VMs which are using IPv6 or a mixture of IPv6 and IPv4
over 5 years ago in Cloud Pak for Multicloud Management Ideas 0 Future consideration

Ability to custom process name

All our process are named "java", notifications and event regarding the process (like "abnormal termination") are all refereeing to "java process"; I would like to have the possibility to custom it like we do for services.
about 1 year ago in Instana / Infrastructure 0 Future consideration

Configure ACE Sensor to authenticate through LDAP

ACE RestAdminApi is configured to be accessed with LDAP authentication. While Instana is asking for local user. We need to be able to configure instana agent to access ACE using LDAP
about 1 year ago in Instana / ACE/IIB / Sensor 0 Future consideration

Policy storage without server name

Please provide an option to allow for storage of $IMPACT_HOME/policy/*.ipl without the server name being forced into the policy name. This will allow for simplified storage of common policies shared amongst clusters or multiple clusters within ver...
over 2 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

FP DEDB and MSDB support by Instana on z

According to the manual (https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/iooz?topic=components-z-apm-connect-ims-data-producer), FP DEDB and MSDB databases in IMS MQ Bridge transactions are not supported by Instana.Our customer is using this function and they want to...
about 1 year ago in Instana / IBM Z 0 Future consideration

make @instana/aws-fargate working with Elastic search 6.X

Hi currently @instana/aws-fargate is not handling Elastic search 6.X Could you manage this ?
about 1 year ago in Instana / Node / Sensor 0 Future consideration