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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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A Free trial would allow users to assess the value of a subscription, helping them determine if the investment is worthwhile. This approach is likely to attract more subscribers who are genuinely interested in learning. As a result, IBM would not ...
1 day ago in Targetprocess / Help & Training 0 Submitted

Manually setting sampling rate to SevOne NMS.

When monitoring Sampled NetFlow, It needs to configure the sampling rate on the network device to send it to SevOne.Without this configuration, SevOne will not recognize the sampling rate, and the traffic volume displayed on the Flow widget will b...
1 day ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 0 Submitted

design a login page that supports both local login and multiple SSO login options

Request ideas or suggestions for designing a login page that supports both local login and multiple SSO login options. The goal is to offer a seamless user experience, allowing users to choose from various SSO providers along with the local login ...
1 day ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) 0 Submitted

Ability to create e-mail alerts using filters instead of views

Have the ability to set e-mail alerts based off of filters instead of views (see screenshot) Example 1: I only want to receive e-mail alerts for accounts 1 and 2. Instead of selecting a view, I would be able to set a filter to where the e-mail ale...
2 days ago in Cloudability / Anomaly Detection 0 Under review

Hostname For Outbound SMTP Connections Should Be Configurable

The current implementation of php SMTP mailer does not set the hostname for the HELO message, which results in Message-IDs ending with 'localhost.localdomain'. This cannot be changed, and may result in the alert mailer not working under some SMTP ...
2 days ago in SevOne / Configuration and Administration 0 Is a defect

Adding Single-AZ or Multi-AZ field to the RDS Resource Inventory

Adding the availability zone details in a column of Resource Inventory would give the customer a detailed view on the RDS.
2 days ago in Cloudability / Resource Inventory 0 Submitted

Add CPU count and memory metrics to go along with instance types.

Withe the instance type information, adding a CPU count and total memory should be a easy metric addition that maps to the instance types. CPU count would be very helpful for licensing requirements.
2 days ago in Cloudability / Resource Inventory 0 Submitted

Expanded Resource Inventory and Reservation Inventory

Expanded Resource Inventory and Reservation Inventory: We currently only have resource inventory for EC2, EBS, S3, RDS and Redshift. Some of our M&As are big OpenSearch, ElastiCache and Memory DB users so the resource information would be help...
2 days ago in Cloudability / Resource Inventory 0 Submitted

Creation date for Snapshots and EC2 instances

Creation date for Snapshots and EC2 instances: We have several accounts with very high Snapshot Costs, and it will help us target where we can save the most if we can tackle the oldest resources first.
2 days ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 0 Submitted

Exclude idle time in IOPS and Throughput metrics

Consider excluding idle time when calculating IOPS and Throughput metrics used for recommendations or add it as an optional way to interpret and view recommendations. The current formula used is the sum of read and write operations dived by time p...
2 days ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 0 Under review