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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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monitoring multiple vCenters from a single Agent

Per documentation (www.ibm.com/docs/en/obi/... you can deploy the agent on the vCenter itself or any agent of choice (linux/windows) on a remote system - the vCenter sensor is able to perform remote monitoring if installation on the vCenter is not...
almost 3 years ago in Instana / Sensor 1 Not under consideration

Ability to "Freeze" rows for Actual Labor Headcount

Currently, under Labor Tab,  any Existing/ Actual Labor Headcount that is published to a Forecast Plan is editable by the Cost Center Owners. In some cases, these rows were inadvertently being updated or deleted by CC Owners that increases th...
about 2 years ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Future consideration

Host Agent to run without sudoers permission

We've gotten this request from a few customers that don't want processes running as root. The request is to provide support for the Host Agent to run as non-root user. The customer understands that they would be giving up some of the discovery cap...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Agent 3 Future consideration

Need the ability to run TopN reports with percentages for non-sorted data in DI.

It currently fails. Can be accomplished in the NMS but not DI.
3 months ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) 0 Under review

Commitment Support for Databricks Commitments

Commitment Support for Databricks Commitments
3 months ago in Cloudability / Rate Optimization (Commitments) 0 Future consideration

Commitment Support for Snowflake Commitments

Commitment Support for Snowflake Commitments
3 months ago in Cloudability / Rate Optimization (Commitments) 0 Future consideration

Commitment Support for AWS Memory DB

Commitment Support for AWS Memory DB
3 months ago in Cloudability / Rate Optimization (Commitments) 0 Future consideration

Commitment Support for Google Cloud NetApp Volumes

Commitment Support for Google Cloud NetApp Volumes
3 months ago in Cloudability / Rate Optimization (Commitments) 0 Future consideration

Commitment Support for GCP Kubernetes Engine (Autopilot) CUDs

Commitment Support for GCP Kubernetes Engine (Autopilot) CUDs
3 months ago in Cloudability / Rate Optimization (Commitments) 0 Future consideration

Commitment Support for GCP VMware Engine

Commitment Support for GCP VMware Engine
3 months ago in Cloudability / Rate Optimization (Commitments) 0 Future consideration