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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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Cloudability support for AWS & Azure China

Our company is using Cloudability globally to manage all public clouds except for AWS & Azure in China. We'd like to have consistent way to manage FinOps in our global estate. Can Cloudability start to ingest data from AWS & Azure China.
9 days ago in Cloudability / Other 1 Delivered

[Turbonomics] - Chef Automate

As a part of using RNA with Turbonomics, we would like to integrate with Chef as a part of the process. https://docs.chef.io/automate/api/ OpenAPI Spec: https://docs.chef.io/automate-api-docs/all-apis.swagger.json
about 1 month ago in Rapid Network Automation 0 Delivered

Personal API Token with same rights than the user to whom the token belows

We have been told by Instana support that users allowed to create their personal API tokens can access through the API to data that they have forbidden to access through the User Interface, which would seem to not be coherent at all. I would like ...
7 months ago in Instana / Access Control / Real User Monitoring / Synthetic 2 Delivered

RPC call in Instana is not capturing http status code

http code for WCF is mapped as RPC calls in Instana UI and same has been confirmed in the support ticket, we would like to get correct mapping for all http codes in WCF.
7 months ago in Instana / .NET 5 Delivered

Ability to close connections better from PostgreSQL blocks

At this time, a workflow does not have the ability to directly close a PostgreSQL connect from a PostgreSQL block. As far as I am aware, they instead remain open until they time out, which is typically 10 seconds or so. This enhancement would add ...
about 1 month ago in Rapid Network Automation 0 Delivered

Add target support to IBM PowerVM

I received from Turbonomic & SevONE Sales Director, Technology Business Unit Data,AI&Automation Div. IBM Japan, Ltd. that IBM does not support IBM AIX and Oracle VM on Turbonomic. My client TOHOKU EPC's subisidiary TOiNX requested us to su...
about 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Target Support 2 Delivered

allowing Topology Manager to get all the informations about network interfaces of the devices on map imported from SevOne via dedicated observer

It is useful for all the opportunities in IBM that we must propose to customer where Watson AIOps and SevOne should be integrated.
over 1 year ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 1 Delivered

telnet monitoring using synthetic check

Add a new feature for telnet monitoring using the synthetic check.
4 months ago in Instana / Synthetic 7 Delivered

Enable HuaweiU2000iManagerTL1 collector to create ONT entities.

Enable HuaweiU2000iManagerTL1 collector to build and create topology between OLT -> ONU.
9 months ago in Tivoli Network Manager 0 Delivered

Add MongoDB package to the synthetic monitoring script runners

Please add the official MongoDB NodeJS driver package (https://www.npmjs.com/package/mongodb) to the script VM runners that are utilized by the Synthetic Monitoring Tests. Package can be used to enable Synthetic moniroring tests and smart alerts t...
9 months ago in Instana / Synthetic 1 Delivered