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Add Usage Family/Usage type to Resource Inventory

We request adding a field of Usage Family or Usage type to each line in the resource inventory in order to be able to separate any storage cost for example from actual instance usage. This can help especially when constructing reports via API call...
about 1 month ago in Cloudability / Resource Inventory 2 Planned for future release

Support Fortigate VDOM-aware discovery and unidirectional LLDP stitching in ITNM

Currently ITNM discovery for Fortinet Fortigate firewalls does not fully work as expected. The product does not correctly recognize VDOM contexts, which results in duplicate or incorrect interface IP addresses (extra octet, e.g. 10.76.194.58.14). ...
2 months ago in Tivoli Network Manager 0 Planned for future release

Add Resource Name to GCP Resource Inventory (Compute Engine)

Resource Name is needed to ensure clear identification of GCE resources in Cloudability Resource ID which comes from GCP billing data is not clear enough (it looks more like a path and it doesn't contain the resource name) Resource Name field is c...
2 months ago in Cloudability / Resource Inventory 1 Planned for future release

Disk usage metric for EBS and GPD

Currently we cannot look at the disk usage data for EBS and GPD, most of the disks are over provisioned and we pay for what we allocate than what we use. Cloudability is showing these metrics for RDS in AWS, why cant we do it for EBS and GPD with ...
3 months ago in Cloudability / Resource Inventory 1 Planned for future release

NCIM support for MS SQL Server

We are primarily an MS SQL DB shop. We have a lot of support of This DB not very much support of DB2 especially in distributed platforms. Using MS SQL would be extremely beneficial.
7 months ago in Tivoli Network Manager 0 Planned for future release

Add ‘last seen’ date to Resource Inventory.

Problem:Right now the resource inventory has the resource state, but for terminated resources there is no way to tell when the resource was terminated. Request:To provide visibility into what time frame the resource inventory data represents and w...
6 months ago in Cloudability / Resource Inventory 1 Planned for future release

Expiring RI for RDS, add column for Engine type

For expiring RDS RIs, it would be very useful to have the engine added to the table that is sent via email subscription.
6 months ago in Cloudability / Resource Inventory 1 Planned for future release

Add ITNM discovery capability for the Nokia CORE network topology

Though we have some (if not all) Nokia core network elements collected from the NetAct collector, we don't have the Core network topology. We understand we need to gather the topology information from multiple sources and stitch up the Core networ...
3 months ago in Tivoli Network Manager 0 Planned for future release

Enhance the collector based Nokia NetAct RAN network topology discovery

The collector based NetAct discovery needs to match the granularity, scope and naming convention that Nokia models and presents the RAN network. In particular, it shall model the network based on the Nokia provided hierarchy of MRBTS- LNBTS-- LNCE...
3 months ago in Tivoli Network Manager 0 Planned for future release

Enable vCPU Usage Metrics for Azure in Cloudability

Currently, Cloudability supports vCPU tracking for AWS and GCP, but Azure data lacks this metric. Since vCPU is crucial for Reserved Instances (RIs), Savings Plans, and overall FinOps decision-making. Without this feature, Azure customers lack vis...
8 months ago in Cloudability / Resource Inventory 1 Planned for future release