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PINNED Need documentation on how to uninstall Instana for K8 and Docker self hosted installation
We need documentation on how to uninstall Instana and the resources created during the installation of Instana on K8. These steps are helpful especially recovering from failed installation so that the customer could retry the steps.
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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Analytics grouping by K8s annotations

It would be great if in analytics we were able to group by kubernetes annotations. We retrieve some infrastructure information from analytics and for us it would make sense to be able to group by annotations as at the end some of them have a clust...
5 months ago in Instana / Kubernetes 3 Needs more information

Report/Service access based on Parent - Child Entity mapping

Parent-Child entity mapping should allow selective access to services/reports based on the authorized list of child entities instead of providing access to all child entities.
5 months ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) 0 Future consideration

Stop Azure Application Gateway via a schedule/policy to reduce costs when back-end pools are off line or shutdown.

Azure Application Gateways cannot be stopped/started via the Azure Web Portal, but they can be stopped or started using Azure CLI or Powershell. There is also a POST command API method to start/stop an Application Gateway that can be found in the ...
9 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM 0 Future consideration

Provide a means of identifying/managing policies with no/empty scope groups

As a user I would like the ability to identify policies that no longer have a scope group associated or groups that no longer have any members, so that I can ensure my automation is being enforced correctly as well as reduce "clutter".
almost 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 1 Not under consideration

Turbonomic uses APIs. We can contribute to Azure API throttling. How do we manage and minimize this impact.

Many clients have multiple applications using API calls in Azure Subscriptions. Security Apps, Compliance Apps, APMS (like Dynatrace) , Terraform, and our IBM apps - Turbonomic ARM and parkmycloud (PMC). Whilst Turbonomic may not be the main consu...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud IaaS 3

Support multiple SMTP hosts

When Customer has s Separate SMTP hosts to send email to External and Internal email id, it is currently not possible to configure multiple SMTP IPs on the NMS. So he has to choose either of these(external or internal SMTP Host). This can be achie...
about 1 year ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 0 Not under consideration

Topology Manager Observer for Ericsson Orchestrator

Customer RFP to replace Ericson CNEX is asking for a service assurance solution that includes events, performance and topology and the only missing part is topology.
over 2 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 1 Not under consideration

TNPM. Upgrade of JBoss to RHEL supported version

When scanning vulnereability of our application server(s), we've noticed that JBoss 4.x is no longer supported by Red Hat, which caused vulnerability flags. We've been informed that JBoss itself is tightly integrated with TNPMW application, so upg...
over 2 years ago in Cloud Pak for Network Automation / Performance 2 Not under consideration

Add incident creation policies based on a specified number of alerts

Administrators should have the ability to create incident policies that specify conditions on number of alerts associated to an incident. For example, if incident policies are triggered only off of alert severity, a large number of incidents could...
5 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 1 Future consideration

Add noise reduction statistics and any other defined KPIs for every individual incident and event grouping

In the AIOps Insights dashboard, several KPIs (including noise reduction %) are automatically calculated across all system data over a specified period of time. In order to communicate unique value from CP4AIOps on a smaller scale, these numbers s...
5 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 1 Planned for future release