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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 for managing VM-to-VM anti/affinity rules directly in Turbonomic

As a user I would like the ability to create/modify/delete VM-to-VM affinity/anti-affinity placement policies, so that I do not have to create/modify/delete these rules in vCenter.

Make Component discovery of fabric extender consistent

For Cisco Nexus Fabric extenders(FEX) attached to Nexus N9K switches (even with recent firmware), sometimes fabric extender elements were not discovered and the chassis element was not discovered. on other hosts, only the chassis element but no fa...
over 1 year ago in Tivoli Network Manager 0 Delivered

Update TADDM HACMP Sensor to be able to discover HACMP versions 7.2+ on AIX servers with OS version 7.2 and above..

Currently deployed AIX servers with OS version 7.2 and above use HACMP v7.2+. The HACMP sensor in FP11 only supports version 7.1 according to TADDM documentation and is not getting triggered when HACMP version 7.2+ is running on the server.
11 months ago in Tivoli Application Dependency Discovery Manager 3 Delivered

Support Oracle Linux

We are a Financial sector company from Perú that has Oracle Linux Server (https://www.oracle.com/pe/linux/) as part of its production core infrastructure. It is important to monitor this technologies because we need to comply with auditing require...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Agent 6 Delivered

Allow use of VLAN ID for network matching for segmentation

Today, to verify a VM can live on another vCenter, Turbonomic checks the port group name to ensure match and that the same network is available at the destination. This idea is to match on the VLAN ID instead of the port group name string.
6 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / General/Other 2 Delivered

Containerization of TEP/TEPS into a Docker container using IBM z/OS Container Extensions (zCX).

Containerization of TEP/TEPS into a Docker container using IBM z/OS Container Extensions (zCX) replacing TEP/TEPS Windows or Linux servers. Benefit: zCX enables applications to communicate with native z/OS applications over high speed virtual IP...
almost 4 years ago in ITM/IBM APM 2 Delivered

Automatically enable CPU and Memory hotadd

I would like to see a policy option for enabling hot-add as part of a pre or post action. this would simply adoption and onboarding of Virtual machines.
over 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM 6 Delivered

Upgrade TEPS - Embedded Jetty Version

As per recent security scan report Jetty Version 6.1.x ( TEPS - Embedded Jetty Version) was detected and pointed out as "Out dated version" and suggested for up-gradation to the latest version. Could please upgrade / release the latest TEPS - Embe...
over 5 years ago in ITM/IBM APM 5 Delivered

Better control over snmp polling for big network devices

ITNM has two different strategies for polling interfaces depending on the use of a polling filter: - Strategy 1 (when no polling filter is defined): poll all OIDs for each interface. - Strategy 2 (when a polling filter is defined): group multiple ...
about 3 years ago in Tivoli Network Manager 0 Delivered

[Instana] Capture table name during batch writes operation

Currently, our system doesn't support capturing the table name for batch writes and we would like to benefit from this feature.
over 1 year ago in Instana / Tracing 2 Delivered