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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 Distribute the Instana kubectl plugin with Krew
Krew is a popular open source plugin manager for the kubectl command-line tool maintained by the Kubernetes SIG CLI community. The tool helps to discover, install, and update kubectl plugins by offering a centralised plugin repository. The usage o...

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Object Type Utilization Metrics | Managing Object Licenses for Cluster

A capability to identify which object types are being used the most in your environment would spearhead administrative actions to reduce or reevaluate object types existing in large environments. If an object type is not found anywhere in the clus...
11 days ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 0 Future consideration

the process to update the SSL certificate needs to be better supported by the documentation

Customers (not just this one) have spent HOURS in VI editing the yaml file trying to get the cert to work. This will reduce customer frustration and improve the feeling towards our product. The current documentation (which is very good ) is here -...
11 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Documentation 0 Future consideration

Disable All Actions Switch under Global Default Policies must include Parking Actions. Currently does not.

People might assume that the Global Defaults Disable All Actions switch might work on Parking actions. And then during a cutover, machines would be turned off by accident causing massive disruption. EITHER this switch should INCLUDE parking action...
3 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 0 Future consideration

Add a description field of at least 256 characters to Groups and Policies to allow for annotation of when and why they were created for and what other objects they correspond to.

Just as this description field is used in this idea submission, a description field in the Groups and Policies will allow us to tag them with metadata that will be useful in remembering when and why we created them.
3 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 1 Future consideration

TopN Views: CPU and memory utilization view creation requires finding the correct variables.

One must go through the many CPU and memory variables and select the correct ones to provide the desired results for all devices in the group.
12 days ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 0 Future consideration

(Public) Support for gMSA accounts in IWS. Allow IWS to use gMSA accounts to execute jobs

(Public) gMSA for service accounts offer additional security and will not require manual updating of passwords. IWS currently requires standard user accounts (the Microsoft definition) to execute jobs, and not gMSA or sSMA accounts.
2 months ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

Implementation of Periodic Resynchronization Feature from Symphony Files to IWS DB or Addition of Synchronization Failure Detection Capability

In my team, an operational error occurred during job status checks in DWC. The root cause was the inability to confirm the latest job execution results in DWC for several hours. (This occurred due to the synchronization failure from Symphony fi...
3 months ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

Automate the currency change (probe property) fetched from the Azure price sheet

Hi team, My customer would like to change the currency that is fetched from the Azure price sheet. They are using Turbo SaaS, and now it's required to do it manually through a request.Now, Turbo UI is confuse, since lets you to change the currency...
about 2 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / SaaS 0 Future consideration

As a user I would like the ability to configure which properties are shown in the entity information widget, so I can see them quickly without having to click 'show all' which will save me time when using Turbonomic

Currently the Entity Information does not provide much value without clicking the Show All button. Much of the information it displays is already elsewhere on the same page. Allowing customizability to the fields you see would make for more effici...
4 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / General/Other 0 Future consideration

Ignoring a proposed action for a certain period of time (hiding it from the Pending Action list for that period).

Turbonomic can generate many actions, but sometimes you may want to ignore a proposed action for a certain period of time after understanding its content. In such cases, it would be useful for operations if you could check the relevant action and ...
about 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 4 Future consideration