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PINNED Reduce Instana infrastructure footprint by reducing metrics resolution
First, we installed on self-hosted Instana Backend on Docker (on-premies). However, the backend didn't respond to the production load and lost monitoring data. Then, We decided to go forward with Openshift Installation. However, the recommended Op...
PINNED Need documentation on how to uninstall Instana for K8 and Docker self hosted installation
We need documentation on how to uninstall Instana and the resources created during the installation of Instana on K8. These steps are helpful especially recovering from failed installation so that the customer could retry the steps.

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TNPM. Cisco Device Tech pack to discover virtual interfaces for MPLS devices when physical and virual interface have same ifName

Cisco Device Tech pack cannot discover virtual interfaces for MPLS Cisco devices. Because of that it is not possible to monitor any KPI for these interfaces. This means it is not possible to monitor even MIB II KPIs for these virtual interfaces, a...
almost 12 years ago in Cloud Pak for Network Automation / Performance 4 Not under consideration

cfgeezdmn requires IBM.AgFilesystem: make this an option

When configuring high availability for the automation manager the automation policy always contains IBM.AgFilesystem resources (e.g. for the application manager policy pool or agentless adapter policy pool). However, shared filesystems is not alwa...
about 12 years ago in Tivoli System Automation 2 Not under consideration

Provide more logging info, what was done, when and why. On e2e and FLA level

It is impossible for the customer to understand what the automation engine had done automatically
over 12 years ago in Tivoli System Automation 2 Not under consideration

Circular ForcedDownBy relationships, DependsOn relationship & MANDATORY attribute

Requirement for circular ForcedDownBy relationships, DependsOn relationship & MANDATORY attribute. We'd like to be able to define 2 resources under TSA AM, with relationships so that either one will stop if the other fails. Under TSA MP we can...
over 12 years ago in Tivoli System Automation 3 Not under consideration

Improvements for state "Stuck Online"

Today, we have very limited possibilities to operate a resource with state "stuck online". There are two functions that should be improved:1. a resource stays in "stuck online" if the stop request is canceled and the desired state isn't "offline" ...
over 12 years ago in Tivoli System Automation 3 Not under consideration

rgmbrreq for concurrent resources

Today, it is not possible to create a request for a concurrent resource on a specific node. With the new function rgmbrreq should work for concurrent resources in the same way as rgmbrreq for fixed resources. see forum discussion: http://www.ibm.c...
over 12 years ago in Tivoli System Automation 4 Not under consideration

Encrypted EIF-Events

Encrypted EIF events would greatly enhance the security of the product.Why: Today it is possible to send faked EIF-Events to the SAAM. This could bring the SAAM Server to react in an unsuitable way.
over 12 years ago in Tivoli System Automation 2 Not under consideration

SAMP - samadapter in non-root context

It would be a great security enhancement if the development would redesign the samadapter-process not to run in root-context anymore.It is generally awkward to open an IP-port with UID 0 due to the possible option of exploiting the process and gai...
over 12 years ago in Tivoli System Automation 2 Not under consideration

TWS job and job stream char limit increase

pmr 744070,082,00 This PMR addresses the question about the jobstream character limit. I found that a request has been made to change the character limit for both jobstream and job names from 16 and 40 to 40 and 64 respectively. I tested the jobst...
almost 13 years ago in Workload Automation 5 Not under consideration