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PINNED Distribute the Instana kubectl plugin with Krew
Krew is a popular open source plugin manager for the kubectl command-line tool maintained by the Kubernetes SIG CLI community. The tool helps to discover, install, and update kubectl plugins by offering a centralised plugin repository. The usage o...
PINNED Self hosted backed on Docker, Support for RHEL 9.x
According to support matrix RHEL 9.x is not supported for self hosted backed installations. However vast majority of customers are using RHEL 9.x RHEL 9.x OS support required for Instana self hosted backend

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ITNM 3.9 Path-Tool should show/use all information available

ITNM 3.9 Path-Tool : Use all available information (L2, L3, routing information (costs, type, ..) in PathView + HopView
over 9 years ago in Tivoli Network Manager 4 Not under consideration

ITNM 3.9 - Poller not clearing events

If a device gets a new IP the old event is never cleared automatically as there is no current correlation for the events based on the device itself. After the discovery sets the device with the new IP that changed during the night, the polling sho...
almost 10 years ago in Tivoli Network Manager 5 Not under consideration

Adding solution manager diagnostics - SMD to allow automation

Add solution manager diagnostics - SMD to SAP build wizard for automation
about 10 years ago in Tivoli System Automation 2 Not under consideration

Improvements for "Manual Mode" in UI

Today, there is just a small information field in the domain detail which shows you if a TSAMP domain is set in manual mode or automation mode. With the requested enhancemants you should 1. see, e.g. by a small icon, that domain is in manual mode2...
about 10 years ago in Tivoli System Automation 2 Not under consideration

Switch Domain in Domain Page View

Today you can switch to another a domain, if you are in the "Explore Automation Domains" view. With the new enhancement you can change the domain in this page.
about 10 years ago in Tivoli System Automation 2 Not under consideration

Search function and multiple selection for Nodes

With the new UI multiple selection for resources is available. For nodes it's currently not provided. The "node view" should be enhanced by this function for nodes, so you can select several nodes and e.g. exclude them all by 1 click.
about 10 years ago in Tivoli System Automation 3 Not under consideration

Silent Installation/Migration method as alternative to installSAM

If you install or update TSAMP today, you do this via installSAM. installSAM not just installs packages, it also sets configs based on the current system configuration, e.g. set java path.If you want to automate the installation, e.g. to perform i...
about 10 years ago in Tivoli System Automation 2 Not under consideration

Create Driver for Cisco Wireless Link Controllers 5508

Please create managed SmartModels for:Vendor: CiscoType: Wireless Lan ControllerModel: 5508OS: 7.2.111.3 and 7.4.110.0
over 10 years ago in Tivoli Netcool Configuration Manager 2 Not under consideration

MemberInProblemState only, if problem still exists

See PMR 19120,033,724 Today TSAMP sometimes shows Resource Groups with state "MemberInProblemState" even if all Members are online.This is caused by a resource, that was in a stuckOnline state after issues with reset, however this is hidden from t...
over 10 years ago in Tivoli System Automation 2 Not under consideration

Add a run cycle for an event rule

Having the equivalent of a run cycle in the job stream but for the event rules, which would allow an event to be available for instance from Monday through Friday
over 10 years ago in Workload Automation 3 Not under consideration