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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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Confirmation Dialog Box Settings

We would like for there to be a confirmation dialog box upon clicking the 'Execute Action' button. We understand that there is by default, but it can disabled via user preference. We would prefer for Site Administrators to be able to configure the...
7 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 0 Future consideration

Eventviewer tool - access criteria "FilterName"

At the moment you can only control the access criteria of event viewer / event list tools by membership of user groups and the class of events (or fields value with a conversion in alerts.conversions and limited to = and != comparison operators). ...
7 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 1 Not under consideration

param.FilterSQL / param.FilterName as available runtime parameter for SQL tools

In order to limit the action of a tool to the event shown in an event list / event viewer it would be great to have the filter name or even better the filter SQL as runtime parameter available for SQL tools ( and it would be nice to have it availa...
7 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 1 Not under consideration

Allow staggering of high impact changes

Problem: App teams: "we cannot have these X number of vms down at the same time" Infra engineers: "we cannot support manual policy creation for each execution schedule for each set of X VMs to reboot in the same CHG window" Description: We have ma...
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / General/Other 1 Future consideration

Add "path" value in helm chart with the Rabbitmq plugin defined

Hi, Please add the possibilty to add the "path" value in static-agent helm chart with using the rabbitmq plugin. All our rabbitmq containers are deployed with the "path : /rabbit". This path is not recognized by Instana because it's limited to use...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Future consideration

Find Topology resources following the arrow direction and render them on page

In topology view, client want to see an ability to view resource with all "child resources" following specific direction arrows. e.g. down arrow (has) and not up arrow (runsOn). Currently AIOps Topology has "Get Neighbours" option which shows all ...
7 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Not under consideration

Add Ability to Run Datagather for FTA/DA/MDM from TDWC and sftp to TDWC tmp directory

An enhancement that allows an admin to run a datagatherer from the TDWC for any FTA/DA/MDM and have the file placed on the TDWC server would reduce time to get datagatherer to IBM support. Most large Environments seperate duties and IWS admins do ...
7 months ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

Batch operations

Hi, it would be very useful if it would be possible to do batch operations in the turbonomic ui. For example batch deletion, or batch creation of different things i.e Groups.
7 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 0 Future consideration

Action automation for Azure Scaleset VMs

Currently, Turbo only recommends actions for Azure Scaleset VMs, they cannot be executed automatically or manually. Unilever has about 12k - 15k Aks nodes added to Turbo now, in addition to about 500 VMs in scale sets. Customer wishes to automate ...
7 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM 0 Future consideration

What-if planing option to evaluate impact if a percentage of VMs upsize

Would like to be able to run a plan that evaluates cluster capacity if VMs in an automation hotadd policy were to upsize. Within the plan be able to on a slide basis evalutate if 10,20 etc. % were to consume the limit of the hot add policy. This w...
about 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Planning 0 Planned for future release