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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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Allow to delete wasted files from Turbonomic UI

Turbonomic recommends actions to delete wasted storage files on datastores. I want the ability to manually accept these and have the files be deleted on the vCenter datastore.

Add VERSA objects for Upstream and Downstream capacity %

Unlike VIPTELA, up to this point VERSA has not provided Upstream/Downstream capacity %. This is now available: https://docs.versa-networks.com/Management_and_Orchestration/Versa_Analytics/Versa_Analytics_Log_Collector_Log_Types/WAN_Interface_Utili...
7 months ago in SevOne / Software Defined WAN (SDWAN) 9 Delivered

Ability to close connections better from PostgreSQL blocks

At this time, a workflow does not have the ability to directly close a PostgreSQL connect from a PostgreSQL block. As far as I am aware, they instead remain open until they time out, which is typically 10 seconds or so. This enhancement would add ...
3 months ago in Rapid Network Automation 0 Delivered

Monitoring rootless Podman process

Hello, We would like to monitor our rootless podman process Best Regards
over 1 year ago in Instana / Sensor 8 Delivered

Add support for multiple ObjectServers in Runbook Automation (Netcool Impact)

Our customer is extending their Netcool landscape to integrate several sites into one centralized stack. Doing so, multiple ObjectServer (one pair per site) will be connected to this centralized approach, resulting in a need for Impact to support ...
over 3 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 2 Delivered

Adaptive Threshold for Erroneous Calls - Global Smart Alerts

Currently in Global Smart Alerts, adaptive threshold option is there for Slow calls, HTTP Status Codes and throughput. Whereas, for erroneous calls only static threshold is available. Static threshold will not account for the daily erroneous call ...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Alert 5 Delivered

Turbonomic VLAN ID Merge and Mapping for vCenter portgroups with different names but same VLAN IDs

Our superclusters are spread between two VDS within vCenter, 1 for our legacy 10gbe network and the other for our 25gbe ACI network. vCenter requires the port group names to be unique and the unique naming is preventing Turbonomic from merging the...
about 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM 4 Delivered

Support for Cassandra Monitoring for DSE 6.8 series

Currently version of Instana supports Cassandra monitoring for 6.0 and 6.7 series. Support for DSE 6.8 series will help teams to have complete Cassandra monitoring in Instana.
about 1 year ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities / Sensor 3 Delivered

Ability to select local region to deploy ARM SaaS

Many customers in Japan are required to keep their data locally for security and data sovereignty reasons. Several prospects have already asked if ARM SaaS can be deployed in the local region. This is probably the same case for some of the EMEA co...
over 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / SaaS 5 Delivered

Add support for SHA256 encryption for SNMPv3 discovery and polling in ITNM

We all need a good hash encryption algorithm in SNMPv3. SHA 1 is likely to be broken and all the NE vendors and security policies are moving to SHA2. We opened the case TS007203260 recently and we were told that SHA256 support is not planned for t...
about 3 years ago in Tivoli Network Manager 2 Delivered