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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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Methods unixssh : Using passphrase

Have the option of using an RSA key with a passphrase (for SSH) when using the unixssh method. At present, we are obliged to use keys without passphrases for the unixssh method, which poses security problems.
2 days ago in Workload Automation 0 Submitted

Oracle Wallet Integration

Would like to have Oracle Agent fetch username and password by connecting to Oracle Wallet.
about 2 hours ago in Instana / Other Tracers 0 Submitted

Request to Add IP Address Restriction for Instana Tenants

[Request] Datadog already has an IP address restriction*, but Instana does not. *https://docs.datadoghq.com/account_management/org_settings/ip_allowlist/ Our customers have strict security requirements, so they have set up a jump server specifical...
about 7 hours ago in Instana / Access Control 0 Submitted

Control Access to IBM Cloud Database Metrics Based on User Permissions

[Background] The customer is developing systems on IBM Cloud and is using numerous instances of "IBM Cloud Databases for PostgreSQL" and "IBM Cloud Databases for Redis." The customer's team is large, and they are controlling access to metrics thro...
about 8 hours ago in Instana / IBM Cloud 0 Submitted

WMI proxy port encryption AES-128 is depreciated

The federal reserve is depreciating AES-128. They can use it now, but in the near future it will need an exception. can only use approved cryptographic measures. Support to customer: Hello Richard, I don't believe there are plans in place to updat...
about 10 hours ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 0 Submitted

More Enhanced reporting for Anomaly Detection

Customer is able to see multiple anomalies in his tool. It's difficult for the customer to identify from which cost center the anomaly is coming from. Currently in the tool if we create a report for a specific anomaly, we have to add dimensions ma...
about 13 hours ago in Cloudability / Other 0 Submitted

Drill Option to be enabled with Net Spend Feature when selecting compare in the time range

Customer wants to create a report which first will report with Net Spend on a Account Name or Cost Center Basis. Once we can identify a cost center with the biggest net spend. We should be able to drill into the table by service name to understand...
about 13 hours ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 0 Submitted

Standard edition without need Subdomains

We need the possibility to run instana without the need of Subdomains. https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=cluster-preparing DNS Settings
about 16 hours ago in Instana / Self Hosted 0 Submitted

Include the Connection count metric for Azure SQL recommendations

Rightsizing - We need Cloudability to have the number of connections metric for Azure SQL Database recommendations - "Succesful connections" in the details of the recommendations
about 17 hours ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization 0 Submitted

Support Virtual Threads for Tomcat 10 and higher version

We need a support Virtual Threads for Tomcat 10 and higher version
about 18 hours ago in Instana / Java 0 Submitted