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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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Report with the utilization graphs for a group of VMs

I’d like the ability to have Turbo generate a report with the usage graphs for a group of VMs. I must get App Owner signoff for server RightSizing, and this data is demanded frequently to justify Turbo’s recommendations. I’d like to be able to spe...
over 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 7 Future consideration

Create an Instana agent sensor for CP4D

While Instana can generically monitor the infrastructure, OCP cluster and services that make up CP4D, it does not collect and visualize any specific internal CP4D metrics. Instana agents use sensors to monitor various technology components which c...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Future consideration

Script output monitoring using Instana (similar to IBM APM)

IBM APM customers can currently run scripts and monitor the output using regexpressions and create alerts on certain conditions. Similar capability is required in Instana to run scripts periodically and process the output. Example: Run a simple sc...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Future consideration

This is not a new idea rather than reporting on a lost feature in TWS 9.5

There is no way to rename the Workload Broker Workstation in TWS 9.5It take the host name and add _DWB as post fix to the name. This is not good when we use backup master and long term switch to the backup master. In fact I manage to rename the DW...
over 3 years ago in Workload Automation 3 Future consideration

Need the DB2 sensor to be able to monitor the DB2 diag log (db2diag.log)

The DB2 diag log (db2diag.log) contains a critical set of information for customers wishing to monitor their DB2 servers. Many Warning and Critical conditions are logged to db2diag.log. In addition, for customers looking to migrate from IBM's olde...
about 1 year ago in Instana / DB2 / Sensor 0 Future consideration

Collecting external URLs used in Webviews

Hi all, following support ticket TS012739487 regarding flutter monitoring within Instana, we need now to have a way to collectU, within Instana, all the URLs that are getting accessed when we're using webviews in our mobile applications. Please le...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Real User Monitoring 0 Future consideration

Add support to another KexAlgorithms for SSh login

While scanning with TADDM part of the infrastructure, we couldn't login due to mismatch of the kexAlegorithms setup on the OS level and supported by TADDM => The kex algo 'curve25519-sha256,curve25519-sha256@libssh.org' is not supported by TADD...
about 1 year ago in Tivoli Application Dependency Discovery Manager 1 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

extract more then one group with regex in the omnibus-probe

Regex support multiple groups but not in the Omnibus-probe. I have test it and only the fist group is shown. Example. $input="testTEST1testTEST2test" $output=extract($inpunt,"test(.*)test(.*)test") $output will show "TEST1" But I like to see " TES...
over 2 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

Need more out of the box thresholds for the DB2 sensor to detect key conditions

Need more out of the box thresholds for the DB2 sensor to detect key conditions. For example, customers always want to know when there is a DB2 HADR failover. They want to know if there is a failure of the HADR failover. They want to know if neith...
about 1 year ago in Instana / DB2 / Sensor 0 Future consideration