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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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Request for HTTP Communication Support in Instana SaaS

Some customers only allow HTTP communication to monitor all outbound traffic from their environment. Currently, on-premises deployments support both HTTP and HTTPS configurations, but SaaS deployments only allow communication over HTTPS. We kindly...
6 days ago in Instana / Agent 3 Submitted

Alarm Propagation Based on Topological Relationships for Telco Use Cases

In Telco environments using IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps, network infrastructure such as routers, switches, and access nodes is often modeled topologically as parent entities containing various dependent resources like physical interfaces, cards, and m...
7 days ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Submitted

Create role permission to disable right click options for end users

End users can right click on any table in any report and select "Show Full Data Path", "Create Published Table", and "Trace Lineage for this component" - screenshot attached. These are not options that our end users should have the ability to use ...
7 days ago in Apptio / User Management & Login 0 Submitted

All historical updates must be retained on entities

Historical updates are not retained for each update unless the updated field is entity state The update is not retained unless 5 minute is passed after the update is made, the idea here is to change the behavior to retain all udpates made on the s...
about 7 hours ago in Targetprocess / Reports 0 Submitted

Calculations where data from two clusters are needed

SLT (Service Level Target) calculation: First off, I appreciate IBM helping us on this as this use case is totally outside of the product capability/feature realm. We discussed SevOne Kafka, RNA/RIA options. For this use case, I am totally open fo...
about 7 hours ago in SevOne / Configuration and Administration 0 Submitted

Long data retention for rollup data for daily/monthly/yearly view

Long data retention for rollup data for daily/monthly/yearly view The Service must aggregate and retain KPI data for the purposes of reporting and service: One hour view with 1 min interval, with a data retention window (sliding) of 13 weeks Busy ...
about 7 hours ago in SevOne / Configuration and Administration 0 Submitted

Whitelist urls

Would like to be able to whitelist urls ie for instance if a whitehat testing is happening not to get http 500 errors on the whitehat urls.
about 10 hours ago in Instana / Alert 0 Submitted

Turbonomic SSO users authorized by groups assigned at Turbonomic combined with SSO group

Actions can only be allowed to be executed by the team members resonsible for certain cloud accounts instead of all accounts in GCP, AWS and Azure. The OKTA SSO group is created at enterprise level for read only, or read/write, but not at cloud ac...
1 day ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Authentication & Security 0 Submitted

Please add Nutanix API v4 so Turbonomic be able to read the OS and Software from VMs

Clients are moving fast to Acropolis/Nutanix. Turbonomic is able to read the VMs, but cannot retrieve the OS nor the Software. We opened ticket TS019101805 where we received the following reply: "I spoke with engineering about the "Unknown" OS for...
1 day ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / APIs 0 Submitted

Additional detail around schedule available on main page

Gives us the ability to know what connector to click into. We run ADM scheduling three times a day so we have to label schedules to include the time to know which one to click into to edit or check. With having the extra columns of time and plan w...
1 day ago in Apptio / Data Sharing (ADM) 0 Submitted