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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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Turbonomic support for Management Group scope Reservations (Azure)

As a Cloud Administrator, I would like Turbonomic Actions to consider my Reserved Instances scoped to my Management Groups in Azure so I can ensure that the actions being recommended by Turbonomic will not scale out of an RI. Azure RI’s can be app...
about 1 month ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Billing & Costs & Discounts 0 Under review

Enable the Netcool Ping Probe to read the PingFile via http(s) or ftp as per the rules files.

We have multiple ping servers due to the number of servers that need to be verified and network restrictions. Management of distributed rules/lookups is made easy as NC_RULES_HOME is set to an http site, hence rules can be centrally published and ...
3 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review

Customize generated webhooks prefix: name and size

Our French bank client uses a specific naming convention for openshift projects: <business-project>-<product>-<env>. While deploying an ICE pilot in their lab environment, a project name is 22 characters long. Prefixed with the 4...
2 months ago in AIOps Integrations 0 Under review

Add support for displaying Fiscal Years as per UK accounting convention

Cloud Financial Planning currently doesn't support the conventional way of displaying a UK Fiscal Year that spans 2 calendar year. For example, a Fiscal Year that runs for 12 months from April (Yr1) to March (Yr2) can only be displayed as either F...
2 months ago in Cloudability / Planning 0 Under review

Full cloud support for MTTrapd probe in NOI 1.6.9

Currently MTTrapd probe is not supported as a containerized service in NOI 1.6.9 full cloud implementation. Few applications only support SNMP traps and we had to install the probe in a separate VM or jump server to read the traps and forward them...
19 days ago in AIOps Integrations 0 Under review

Right Sizing Recommendation Include Sustainability Savings Data

When viewing right sizing recommendations I need to see the sustainability benefit of making the change as well as the cost benefit. I am working with Green Pixie who I would like to integrate their data sources with Cloudability so I can view the...
3 months ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 0 Under review

Import Latency Sensitivity VM setting for vmotion cost calculation

We have some workloads that are latency sensitive and suffer when vMotioned in short sequence. vCenter has VM settings called "latency sensitivity" and "vMotion stun time limit" that would be incredibly beneficial for these types of workloads for ...
about 1 month ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / On-Premises (Hypervisor & Storage & Network) 0 Under review

Add in dropdown all entity states for global entities (cards).

Currently dropdown for cards filter shows Initial Planned and Final, for non-global includes all entity states, this option not available for global entities.
about 1 month ago in Targetprocess / Views (Lists, Boards, Roadmaps, Dashboards) 1 Under review

Support VMware vROPS as (direct) Topology Observer

Large VMWare customers typically use vRealize Operations Manager (vROPS) to federate their VMWare / vCentre deployments. One of the functions vROPS provides is centralised inventory management. Having an AIOps Topology Observer capability to retri...
about 1 month ago in AIOps Integrations 0 Under review

Cloudability View Definition improvement

As a Cloudability Admin I would like to be able to define Views based on the Payer Account Id, and other core fields so that I can define the views that my users need. My organisation has multiple Payer Account Ids, and I do need to use that field...
3 months ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization / Reports, Dashboards / Views 1 Under review