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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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Monitor Disk I/O latency metrics

Currently, we don't show metrics related to Disk Latency. We don’t collect I/O latency related operations. This would be needed for business purposes.
almost 3 years ago in Instana / Sensor 2 Delivered

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...
about 2 years ago in Tivoli Network Manager 0 Delivered

More than a project or a project list in Openstack Agent configuration

We are using Openstack Instana agent to monitor IBM Cloud Infrastructure Center (ICIC) in the agent configuration we need to specify a single project and consequently to see only the Computer Instances related to this projet. In order to have a co...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Infrastructure 2 Delivered

AWS Plugin - Synthetic Indicators

As opposed to using REST API to create calculation poller data, we would be able to define expressions that use the pollable fields to create new AWS objects for metrics. (Examples of this can include In and Out metrics translated from their bits/...
over 1 year ago in SevOne / Cloud 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.
almost 3 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM 7 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 ...
over 3 years ago in Tivoli Network Manager 0 Delivered

Enable hyperlinks in text boxes in Apptio BI reports

Problem:We use text boxes in our Apptio BI reports to include links to documentation, FAQs and related reports the user may find helpful. Right now I can only add those URLs as plain text. The user needs to higlight, copy and paste into the browse...
2 months ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 1 Delivered

Capability to add freeform text and snap to grid on Network View

Looking for capability to add freeform text in network view for some additional information on Network View , also capability to snap to grid on placement of object in network view.
over 4 years ago in Tivoli Network Manager 2 Delivered

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...
about 1 year ago in SevOne / Software Defined WAN (SDWAN) 9 Delivered

Ability to set a Maximum Utilization and Request Constraint for nodes in OCP/K8s clusters

As a customer, I need to be able to set a maximum utilization and requests I don't want to pass for nodes, regarding the sum of all requests of all pods running there. Use case is: for production environment, I want to be sure to have enough capac...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Container Platforms (K8s & OpenShift) 2 Delivered