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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?
PINNED Instana on OpenShift Route Flexibility
Hi, My customer has a question about Instana route definitions on OCP. Basically, they have an OCP console address like console-openshift-console.apps.ocpcluster.ibm.com. According to the document; - basedn URL should be like instana.apps.ocpclust...

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Need to enhance the AIX / LPAR monitoring as the basic monitoring is not sufficient to understand the performance problems.

After speaking to the IBM Power Sales team, existing AIX metrices are not sufficient even when enhanced with the IBM pHMC sensor metrices. The customers are relying on the vmstat/iostat/nmon commands to extract reports and do manual work of assess...
4 months ago in Instana / IBM Power / Sensor 0 Under review

Add Event name (aka. Alert rule name) into alert JSON message

Hello, Currently, when alert is triggered instana sends alert as JSON message to Alert Channel (Splunk in our case). Can you please add Event name (aka Alert Rule Name) into those JSON messages so that we know which instana event (alert rule) crea...
2 months ago in Instana / Alert 0 Under review

Azure Savings Plans Utilization Tracking

I want to be able to 1) list Azure Savings Plan commitments, followed by 2) tracking the utilization of the specific Azure Savings Plan such as 100%, 95%, etc. and 3) display the workloads that are consuming from the savings plan.
2 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Reporting 0 Under review

Expand Azure reservation planning to additional Azure resource types supporting Azure reserved instances

Currently Turbonomic only supports planning reservation instances for VMs in Azure. Microsoft provides numerous resource types to purchase reserved instances. I want to make purchases driven on analytics provided by Turbonomic to drive ROI, howeve...
2 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Planning 0 Under review

IWS : -noremove option of JnextPlan should not remove cancelled job streams

The goal of the -noremove option is to keep the plan "as is" (Successful job streams are not removed). However, cancelled job streams are removed during the replan operation.
2 months ago in Workload Automation 0 Under review

Would like to be able to check who has logged into WebGUI in the past. Can get active users but would like to be able to report history of logged in users.

Audit of users for NOC managers and Audit teams.
2 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review

Please add support for Performance Plus for Azure Disk Storage

Using Performance Plus for Azure Disk Storage (see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/virtual-machines/disks-enable-performance?tabs=azure-cli ) an Azure customer can opt-in for this IOPS and thoughput for Azure disks. Please add support for ...
2 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud IaaS 0 Under review

Set the remote monitoring interval for Oracle database

In TS015830047, IBM Support Services responded that the expected behavior for remote monitoring of Oracle DB is that if the connection fails, it will only be retried after a 10 minute interval. It's a long time to be unable to monitor for 10 minut...
2 months ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Under review

Password Reset option in DWC (like older versions)

Hello IBM Team, Since 9.5 DWC don't have the option to update the password (reset/change) . This is creating big problem . Can we have any utility or option in console from where users can update their password themselves. and Admin can track the ...
2 months ago in Workload Automation 0 Under review

Re : gNMI - Catalyst 9800 IOT Sensor and Wifi Metric collection

C https://richardatkin.com/post/2022/03/22/Streaming-environmental-air-quality-data-from-the-Cisco-Catalyst-9136-WiFi6e-Access-Point.html https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/wireless/controller/9800/technical-reference/catalyst-9800-programmabil...
2 months ago in SevOne / Enterprise Wireless (WIFI) 0 Under review