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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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Ability to add blackout periods to alerts.

Rates drop low at night for order placement. It would be nice to have black out periods on alerts to have a higher threshold set during the day with a night blackout period. Then be able to have a second alert for a lower threshold for the overnig...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Alert 2 Delivered

Include Resource Group details in Executed Actions widget

Please can I make a product improvement request. In the data export for the executed actions widget please can Cloud Resource Group and Cloud Account be included as fields in the executed actions data extract. These fields are present in pending a...
9 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Reporting 1 Delivered

Please support more than port 2514 for logging to external logserver, for example 514.

Hello, We would like to connect our Turbonomic instances to our central log server (Greylog). But this is only possible via the following ports: 514, 6514, 601, 6601 However, Turbonomic does not allow any port configuration and always sends syslog...
9 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / General/Other 2 Delivered

Instead of INSTANA_IGNORE=true, customer would like to have an opt-in approach for monitoring java processes

We have a customer that is trying to monitor java. By default, Instana auto-instruments everything within the kubernetes cluster. The customer doesn't want everything instrumented because it can have an impact on the application performance. I tol...
9 months ago in Instana / Java 4 Delivered

disable ingress/egress records when not available

In NetFlow, there is an option to disable this. Uncheck "Create Ingress/Egress Records when not available". I don't see the same option for sFlow.
over 1 year ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 1 Delivered

Change the Memory Setting in "Host Templates" to Gigabytes rather than Megabytes

Due to the size of memory in all hardware now having the memory setting in megabytes takes some additional time to work out as have to calculate the exact MB amount when converting from GB in machine. Would be easier to have the memory amount sett...
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Planning 0 Delivered

Add support for Ed25519 SSH keys in Discovery Credentials.

Add support for using Ed25519 SSH keys with Discovery Credentials using pki authentication.
almost 5 years ago in Tivoli Application Dependency Discovery Manager 0 Delivered

Scaling powered off VMs

There are numerous scenarios where a VM is powered off and can/should be scaled. Once a workload is powered off though, the action goes away. I think it's important to allow these resources to be resized before they're powered on and requiring ano...
over 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM 1 Delivered

install LWA with a local system user that will not requires any password

Modify the install process for a LWA so it reqires no password to be input or the LWA can just interact with the Local System Account TS005072883
about 4 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Delivered

Update log4j to 2.17.1 or newer version, and avoid of hardcode/embedded inside library

Best practice of programming is never embedded known library inside another library, but TADDM have a lot of binary containing other library, e.g. log4j. Please take a look of taddm-api-clients.jar, containing platform-logger.jar, log4j 1.x.jar. A...
over 3 years ago in Tivoli Application Dependency Discovery Manager 1 Delivered