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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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"Entity Information" widget should be sorted alphabetically

This widget has grown a lot over the years and for some objects now runs off the screen. As it does not seem to be sorted alphabetically, it can be difficult to navigate and does not provide a good user experience
7 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 1 Planned for future release

Integrate certificate import / update ability in to UI

It would be useful to be able to upload new certificates for update purposes when they expire, vs having to go through a multi step process in the CLI
11 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 0 Future consideration

Local User Activity, Password Policy Administration, & API Keys

Last Activity & Login Date: For local users, we'd like to be able to see the Last Used Activity and Last Login Date. Password Complexity Rules and Lifecycle Management: We need a mechanism to enforce our Company's password complexity rules, su...
7 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Authentication & Security 0 Future consideration

Improve the agent deployment process : have a dev/prod or beta/stable type of release

I/we would like to have a discussion about how agents are released into the "Dynamic Agent." What we are talking about is how the .jar files are pulled from maven into the dynamic agent. Today, you have a few options in how your agents work. If...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Agent 0 Future consideration

CostAllocationRuleName to be added in Cloudabilty mapping for Datalink

CostAllocationRuleName field should be added to the Cloudability mapping for the cldy_monthly_azure Datalink connector. This field is included in the Usage Details Amortized and Actual Exports which is scheduled daily.
over 1 year ago in Apptio / Data Connectivity (Datalink) 0 Future consideration

Alert Audit Log, basically a trail of when an alert (not events) was sent out, who to, which channel, what payload, etc…

We would like to ask for a feature to allow for Alerts to be protocolled and saved (kind of an Alert Audit Log). Basically, a trail of when an alert (not events) was sent out, who to, what payload, etc…Website and Applications use Smart Alerts. I ...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Alert 0 Future consideration

User-friendly message for unauthorized users

Today, when user is not authorized (i.e.: not part of any External Group in Turbo), Turbo displays a 500 server error: 500 Server Error: "{"type":500,"exception":"com.vmturbo.auth.api.authorization.AuthorizationException: Unable to authorize the u...
4 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 0 Future consideration

Simplified UI for Agent configuration

Many times Client find it difficult to edit configuration.yaml for agent configuration as this is huge file, indentation sensitive and not so user friendly. A more intuitive UI for making changes to agent configuration is requested through this idea.
4 months ago in Instana / Agent 0 Not under consideration

Exclude Local FileSystem from monitoring

Currently, there is only option to INCLUDE REMOTE filesystems to be monitored within Instana agent configuration file. Customer is looking for the option to EXCLUDE LOCAL filesystem from monitoring. They do have some filesystems which are nearly f...
4 months ago in Instana / Agent 2 Functionality already exists

Add support for GCP VM matching in Servicenow App

Support for matching AWs, Azure, VMWare and Hyper-V VMs exists today in the Turbonomic Servicenow app. Customer has a requirement to support matching of GCP VMs so change requests can relate to the relevant CIs in servicenow.
7 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Target Support 1