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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?

Instana

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iSeries servers availability monitoring

iSeries servers are currently monitored remotely via the agent. However, we need to ensure that events are triggered in in case of below scenario.1. Server down2. Password expired3. Connectivity lost between iSeries to Agent
about 4 hours ago in Instana / IBM i 0 Submitted

I want to prevent the file /tmp/.com_ibm_tools_attach/* that TEPS starting command creates.

When /opt/IBM/ITM/lx8266/iw/java/jre/bin/java is executed (when TEPS starts up), some files '/tmp/.com_ibm_tools_attach/*' will be generated. I would like to prevent these files from being generated. The related IBM support inquiry is this one:  h...
about 6 hours ago in Instana / ITM v6, ITCAM v7, APM v8 1 Submitted

Easier agents update in air-gapped environment

Dear colleagues, our customer is using Instana in air-gapped environment. They had system administrators installed static instana agents and want simple procedure to upgrade them by Instana administrators who are responsible for Instana and agents...
about 21 hours ago in Instana / Agent 0 Submitted

Smart alerts - ability to select any created application

Hi, It would be useful to allow selecting any created application perspective in smart alerts. Currently you can only select application perspectives which had calls (excluding synthetic calls) in last 24h. This is very inpractical if you want to ...
1 day ago in Instana / Alert 0 Submitted

How handle common files and credential file in xml, js and xslt format.

1. We have more than 100 files like error handlings or message in xslt. Can we upload these in store:// folder which can be visible to every domain ? 2. We have also some credential files in local folder of few domains. How can we handle these cre...
1 day ago in Instana / DataPower 0 Submitted

Instana lose visiblity to POSTGRES DB (running on OCP) after the POSTGRES cluster restart, it resets to default settings

We are trying to monitor CP4AIOPS & CNEA/AMS on OCP. We follow the document (https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=technologies-monitoring-postgresql#enable-statistics-collection) to enable tracking so Instana can mon...
2 days ago in Instana / Infrastructure 0 Submitted

To enable the monitoring of Job count based on Queue Library only where the Queue Name could be anything

To enable the monitoring of Job count based on Queue Library only where the Queue Name could be anything For example, Job Queue Library is "QGPL" and count is >= 200
2 days ago in Instana / IBM i 0 Submitted

If Number of Jobs in Queue is >= threshold then the alert should be triggered.

We have configured some of the jobs visible in Smart alert but still many other jobs are not visible in smart alerts to enable this monitoring parameter. The support team has identified reason behind and it is that only Top 20 Jobs would be visibl...
2 days ago in Instana / IBM i 0 Submitted

Create menu to admin agent in as400

Request for Enhancement: Local Installation of Instana Agent on AS400 The security department has identified a potential vulnerability in the way the Instana agent is currently started. Currently, the user is granted *ALLOBJ permissions to execute...
3 days ago in Instana / IBM i 0 Submitted

Session Duration Tracking in Instana

Currently, Instana does not provide a way to determine the duration of a user session, either via the UI or API. This feature request proposes adding functionality to track and retrieve session duration, including the total time a user spends logg...
3 days ago in Instana / Cross teams/areas 0 Submitted