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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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Clearly identify Cloud vs On-prem specific policy settings to avoid customer confusion

Clearly identify Cloud vs On-prem specific policy settings Turbonomic is showing both cloud and on-prem policy settings when cloud VMs settings are ignored (cloud VMs settings should not appear to avoid customer confusion) For customers that have ...
over 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud IaaS 1 Future consideration

Ability to share reports to user in Saved state (Send Email Functionality)

User applies certain filters in the report , wants to share it with a colleague to view similar data . Shares the saved report using Send email functionality. However, when the colleague opens the shared link , the saved filters remain for a momen...
over 1 year ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Report Studio 1 Planned for future release

Netcool Operations Insight on OCP comes with an OpenLDAP repo which does not allow secure LDAP communication which it should

Netcool Operations Insgight on OCP comes with an OpenLDAP repo which does not allow secure LDAP communication which it should. The audit fails at my client Bundeswehr as only unsecre LDAP can be enabled and due to CASE TS017137811 is not supported...
8 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 1 Future consideration

monitoring multiple vCenters from a single Agent

Per documentation (www.ibm.com/docs/en/obi/... you can deploy the agent on the vCenter itself or any agent of choice (linux/windows) on a remote system - the vCenter sensor is able to perform remote monitoring if installation on the vCenter is not...
almost 3 years ago in Instana / Sensor 1 Not under consideration

Correct discovery of links in topology when mib ifstack is not enabled.

According to case TS016456788, the IBM engineering team reported that they need to investigate a way to discover topology links when the mib ifstack is not enabled on the equipment.
5 months ago in Tivoli Network Manager 0 Future consideration

Resource alerts in Topology

When looking at a resource in topology, we have a tab showing the resource's alerts. Unfortunately, we can only see a summary, severity and the last change. Seeing full details on the alarm, we have to switch to the Alerts Viewer. It would help a ...
5 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 1 Future consideration

OTEL Contrib Collector should be automatically installed via our Agent

OTEL Contrib Collector should be automatically installed via our Agent
8 months ago in Instana / Agent / Infrastructure / Logging / Other Tracers 0 Needs more information

Ingest Organization structure defined in GCP and AWS

This will allow for better organization of data based on the Organizational Unit Hierarchy defined in GCP and AWS
3 months ago in Cloudability / Cloudability MSP / Data Mapping and Organization 1 Planned for future release

GCP - Dimension for Project Number

Cloudability currently picks up Project Name and Project ID, but not Project Number.

Cloudability - Impersonate Access for Admins

Allow for more granular permissions around “impersonate” access at Cloudability level. Currently this type of access is at ApptioOne level and gives access to all modules, which exposes unnecessary accesses.
3 months ago in Cloudability / User Management & Login 0 Submitted