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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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RabbitMQ queue consumer count

Consumer count per queue is missing, its a critical metric for properly monitoring RabbitMQ and would be great to see next to the message counts.
about 2 years ago in Instana / Sensor 1 Delivered

KAFKA DSA for Impact

We require a KAFKA Data Source Adapter to interface with external and internal systems. NFV vendors are providing KAFKA Message Bus as the interface of choice for new elements and / or applications
over 3 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Delivered

Ability to add blackout periods to alerts.

Rates drop low at night for order placement. It would be nice to have black out periods on alerts to have a higher threshold set during the day with a night blackout period. Then be able to have a second alert for a lower threshold for the overnig...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Alert 2 Delivered

disable ingress/egress records when not available

In NetFlow, there is an option to disable this. Uncheck "Create Ingress/Egress Records when not available". I don't see the same option for sFlow.
about 1 year ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 1 Delivered

Change the Memory Setting in "Host Templates" to Gigabytes rather than Megabytes

Due to the size of memory in all hardware now having the memory setting in megabytes takes some additional time to work out as have to calculate the exact MB amount when converting from GB in machine. Would be easier to have the memory amount sett...
about 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Planning 0 Delivered

Support to Monitor Oracle RAC

Hi, Instana currently doesn't support monitoring Oracle RAC Instances either by Remote or Local configuration. Many cutsomers are having Oracle RAC Production Instances. Also Oracle monitoring is limited to configure OracleSID. Need to extend to s...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Sensor 10 Delivered

When working with multiple DWC on multiple environments we need to distinct the browser windows

Customer have multiple instances of IWS 9.5 in distinct environments, and use distinct DWC to reach each one. This is being problematic because Browser always have the same layout, color and title, and the final user/operator may, by mistake, do a...
over 4 years ago in Workload Automation 5 Delivered

DWC Login page modification for 9.5

This feature was available in all the previous version of TWS. And this idea will benefit all the organization who wants to customize their DWC login page according to their requirements.
over 3 years ago in Workload Automation 8 Delivered

REST API expose for Impact Policies

Need a supported and structured method to expose as endpoints for the impact polices to be called as REST api with documented Jason Payload Specifically for the MWM policies.As of today the policy can be executed with REST which is not documented ...
about 5 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 3 Delivered

Need support for Azure ebdsv5 and ebsv5 series

Turbonomic currently does not support Azure ebdsv5 and ebsv5 series. Customer is starting to request and use these as well as purchase RI's related to them. Here is Azure link: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/virtual-machines/ebdsv5-ebsv5-s...
about 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud IaaS 0 Delivered