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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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Expand RNA user registry

Currently the RNA user registry has username, first, last names and password. Can we add email address and GECOS fields to the user options? Our usecase is to associate accounts to individual employees.
4 months ago in Rapid Network Automation 2 Future consideration

Log window output enhancements

Would find it very convenient to be able to close all non-executing (stopped) log tabs with one button. Right now I have to click many times to close all the older tabs. e.g., "close all" Notes: Shane offered a few different ways to the user: Clos...
4 months ago in Rapid Network Automation 2 Future consideration

Add conditional breakpoints (eval functions)

Would be good to add possibility for conditional breakpoints, where you say "stop here if x == false". Perhaps a breakpoint block with an eval function that is only enabled when debug. Perhaps looking like an "if block". The "breakpoint" block wou...
4 months ago in Rapid Network Automation 1 Future consideration

Allow step into when debugging workflow

Currenty when debugging workflows, you can resume, start over, stop and step. The possibility for stepping into another function is missing. This feature is key to allow workflow reuse.
4 months ago in Rapid Network Automation 2 Future consideration

Dynatrace discovered standalone server hardware (bare metal server) metrics are being collected yet Turbonomic doesn't present that hardware in the UI either as a VM or Host.

As a unified interface for all infrastructures for On-Prem, Cloud, Storage, Network, and Applications, the only missing part of the unified view is the standalone hardware server. This could be a server box, blade, on bare metal with an operating ...
8 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / APM & Applications & Databases 0 Future consideration

Provide additional explainability into probable cause ranking

The output of the probable cause ranking should also have an "explainability UI" similar to that of temporal correlation and seasonality which explains why the events in a topological correlation were assigned their probable cause rankings accordi...
8 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

User role impactOpViewUser should not allow editing and deleting Operator Views

An explicit 'user' role should not allow 'admin' tasks such as editing and deleting components that are relevant to other users. However, this is the case with the Impact role impactOpViewUser. Users with this role are allowed to edit and delete a...
about 1 year ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 1 Future consideration

Support for Azure SQL reserved capacity

Product doesn't currently support Azure SQL (PaaS) reserved capacity. This functionality is similar conceptually to Reserved Instances for VMs; however, it applies to SQL. Impact: Turbonomic will potentially create pending actions to scale a SQL d...
over 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Billing & Costs & Discounts / Public Cloud PaaS & DBaaS 0 Future consideration

Existing Incident Correlation in Customer ITSM with AIOps Generated Alerts

In some customer environments, application end users may create tickets in their ITSM portals along with any other monitoring system alerts. This creates additional noise and overhead for the operational teams to investigate and link to another kn...
8 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

Enrich transactions in Instana with Network Flow metadata from NPM

Customers are looking for Instana to be their Single pane of glass for observability. A common question is how about the network, what if the problem is there? Our partner Rebendo and customer TINE has a suggestion that customers who use an NPM li...
4 months ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 0 Future consideration