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Onboarding requires ICMP response

For onboarding any new device in to the infrastructure it needs to have proper ICMP response, without that the servers cannot be onboarded. As per IBM, in file based discovery the device might be pollable even when ICMP is not working. In our curr...
almost 3 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

Better Agent update management

Controlling and managing agent updates is difficult, and at times does not work, or at least, does not work as expected. We have had difficulty suspending updates in K8s - turning it off has been temporary, finding it on again. Automatic updates...
almost 3 years ago in Instana / Agent 0 Future consideration

Actualfree and free memory usage - AIX server monitoring

Its has been noticed that the memory usage under the infrastructure monitoring is reporting incorrect readings. After working with the support, found that instana use Sigar library to collect the memory metrics, which offers two values free and ac...
about 3 years ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Future consideration

multiple active DASH Systems and one ASM Core

actually the ASM UI service registers console connections with one JazzSM DASH System. But if you have a large scale environment, where users are loged into multiple DASH Systems, that ASM does only register with one active DASH system. Means, ASM...
over 3 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

Analytics: Filter backend calls based on origin == mobile app

Background and context The context of this idea is that Instana is monitoring a backend api + a mobile app which is using that backend api. In this scenario there is a risk of getting other sources of traffic (scraping bots, malicious actors, frau...
over 3 years ago in Instana / Real User Monitoring / Tracing 0 Future consideration

Windows user rights absolutely needed for IWS to working fine

Product: IWS 9.3.0.3OS: Windows 2016 We are installing IWS on Windows OS but, for internal security policies, some user rights are not allowed to be assigned to any user (as they are high privileged).IWS requires some rights, as per documentation....
about 7 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Future consideration

Support calendars in folders with datecalc

Hi team, We need IWA tool should support calendars in folders with datecalc which will help to expand solution for various market. Since we need to modify the holiday calendar for different market. For example :- We need to pass 5th working day ...
over 3 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

compliance manager process - select by VTMOS realm AND device realm

In a Compliance Manager process, we need a way to get it to select the devices to run policies against by both VTMOS realm AND device realm - the GUI currently only allows either/or and we really need to be able to do both. E.g. at present we can ...
almost 11 years ago in Tivoli Netcool Configuration Manager 2 Future consideration

Extracting user list from DWC

Why is it useful? 1. It is useful for the purpose of timely review conducted by every client to have a clear picture of what users have access to application and what is the type of access. 2. It simplifies the review for auditors as well for inte...
almost 4 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

passing File name with job as paramater to the job script , Job should take name of the file which is getting satisfy using file base dependency

we have event base scheduling to pass file name, where name of the fill will be the file which is getting satisfy with file dependency but here problme is FTA is dependent on Master for event part. Instead of this if we can pass file name in norma...
about 4 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration