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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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Consolidate Reference Data table entries into one entry via Change Identifiers or similar new process

As a Planning/Finance Administrator, I would like Planning (the tool) to to find and replace and, where appropriate, consolidate (the new feature) indicated identifier for all plans across time, regardless of whether the plan is open or closed. Th...
3 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Future consideration

Dynamic maps constrained by device and object groups.

I'd like to be able to create a map, for example 'MPLS Core' and configure the map to show all 'ethernetcsmacd' links only between nodes in X,Y,Z device groups. or to specify only links in a given object group. I'd like the map to update dynamical...
3 months ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) 0 Future consideration

Checkbox in User Manager to Disable Password Login

SevOne doesn't support MFA but we do have SSO. Some customers have used various workarounds in the past such as disabling users but still allowing them to login via SSO to mimic MFA. This existing workaround is not stable. Another workaround is mo...
4 months ago in SevOne / Configuration and Administration 0 Future consideration

Optimizing the VM Bursting Model

In the bursting model of VMs, I would like you to monitor the amount of credit accumulation and consumption and make optimization suggestions. For example, changing to a model with larger credits or to a model other than a burst model. ■AWS EC2 (T...
4 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud IaaS 2 Future consideration

Add "Alert Cubes" DI widget to summarize alerts by "groups of device groups" or "groups of object groups"

NOC / SOC engineers want a quick visual summary of their assets under management that may have alerts raised for them. By selecting a device group parent group or an object group parent group this will provide a summarized list of groups of groups...
4 months ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) 0 Future consideration

Provide new metadata summary widget that displays number of unique values by type for a metadata attribute (e.g. number of ports that are down, up, disabled)

Operationally and for Management reports, it is useful to be able to summarize items of interest, such as the number of ports that are up, down, disabled, etc. Or summarize number of devices by type, operating system, etc.
4 months ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) 0 Future consideration

Increase Apptio BI limitation of 10 metrics and 15 dimension

Current Apptio BI metrics and dimensions have limitation and caps the report capability and functions.
4 months ago in Apptio / Apptio BI 0 Future consideration

Add TopN Capacity widget using percentiles for Percentage-based metrics (interface utilization %, cpu %, etc.)

Capacity planners would like to review large numbers of interfaces, devices, etc. and base their capacity recommendations on the percentage of time devices are in various performance zones (e.g. in past week, these interfaces were above 90% utiliz...
4 months ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) 0 Future consideration

Need integration with BMC Remedy

Dear colleagues, customer is asking for integration with service desk BMC Remedy, it REST API, but Generic Webhook format doesn't fit the Remedy API. Here is the example for creating incident: https://docs.bmc.com/docs/itsm2002/example-of-using-th...
4 months ago in Instana / Integrations 2 Future consideration

Ability to sort reference data as related to dropdown lists

I would like the ability to sort reference data (cost center, department, accounts, and projects) by code or names. Most of our codes are alpha and numeric (ex: C4310, C3320, I26B, I78A) but the dropdown lists usually sort by name resulting in a w...
4 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Future consideration