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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

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

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

flow de-duplication within DI

Flow duplication is a big issue when reporting and the same flow records are sent from different flow exporters (routers that the traffic transits). It's not easy to define groups or select specific devices for reporting, particularly when there a...
5 months ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 4 Future consideration

Commitment Support for Azure NetApp Files

A capacity reservation covers matching capacity pools in the selected service level and region. When using capacity pools configured with cool access, only "hot" tier consumption is covered by the reservation benefit. Azure offer 30 different RI t...
5 months ago in Cloudability / Rate Optimization (Commitments) 0 Future consideration

Commitment Support for Azure Backup

A capacity reservation lowers storage costs of backup data in a Recovery Services Vault. Azure offer 30 different RI types across services, many of our customers look at our product and ask where the additional reserved instance recommendations ar...
5 months ago in Cloudability / Rate Optimization (Commitments) 0 Future consideration

Commitment Support for Azure Managed Disk Reservations

A reservation only covers premium SSDs of P30 size or greater. It doesn't cover any other disk types or sizes smaller than P30. Azure offer 30 different RI types across services, many of our customers look at our product and ask where the addition...
5 months ago in Cloudability / Rate Optimization (Commitments) 1 Future consideration

Commitment Support for Azure Dedicated Host

Only the compute costs are included with the Dedicated host. Azure offer 30 different RI types across services, many of our customers look at our product and ask where the additional reserved instance recommendations are. If we dont build this log...
5 months ago in Cloudability / Rate Optimization (Commitments) 0 Future consideration

Commitment Support for Azure Data Explorer

A reservation covers the markup charges. A reservation doesn't apply to compute, networking, or storage charges associated with the clusters. Azure offer 30 different RI types across services, many of our customers look at our product and ask wher...
5 months ago in Cloudability / Rate Optimization (Commitments) 0 Future consideration