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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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Add sorting options on DI widgets

For UI/UX matters, it would be very useful to be able to save widgets/views in either ascending or descending values, or by certain attributes, but the option is not available. Sorting and saving the report doesn't actually saves it organized as d...
about 1 month ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) 1 Future consideration

Make it a rightsizing preference option to allow changes to/from confidential SKUs

Currently the rightsizing engine does not provide the capability to control recommendations between confidential and non-confidential SKUs in Azure. I can't imagine many customers want to flip flop between the two types of SKU as Microsoft prices ...
about 1 month ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization 0 Future consideration

More robust scheduling options for workflows

Please look into expanding the scheduling options for automation workflows and parking workflows. I think this would be extremely beneficial. Right now, I have a use case where we have certain servers that stay off until they are needed, such as c...
about 1 month ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / On-Premises (Hypervisor & Storage & Network) 1 Future consideration

Enable "Databases" as a service under the rightsizing section of OCI. Right now, there is only one kind of service i.e., VM

Enable "Databases" as another service under the rightsizing section of OCI. This will enable us to track cost & other existing rightsizing related KPIs & opportunities for Databases service as well.
about 1 month ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization 0 Future consideration

Enable "Volumes (Disks)" as a service under the rightsizing section of OCI. Right now, there is only one kind of service i.e., VM

Enable "Volumes (Disks)" as another service under the rightsizing section of OCI. This will enable us to track cost & other existing rightsizing related KPIs for "Volumes (Disks)" service as well.
about 1 month ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization 0 Future consideration

Enable "Object Storage" as a service under the rightsizing section of OCI. Right now, there is only one kind of service i.e., VM

Enable "Object Storage" as another service under the rightsizing section of OCI. This will enable us to track cost & other existing rightsizing related KPIs for Object Storage service as well.
about 1 month ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization 0 Future consideration

Scheduled reports should also be allowed to have excel/csv attachment.

Scheduled reports should also be allowed to have excel/csv attachment, currently only pdf is supported. This is useful specially for NXN reports. PFA scheduled mail which has only pdf report. The csv needs to be extracted manually.
about 1 month ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) 0 Future consideration

We can see the interfaces and their IP in object summary. These IP's are ipv4 need ipv6 aswell.

The SNMP walk file was able to find the IPv6 address for the interface object "GigabitEthernet0/4/0/19.1202". The OID for IPv6 is "'.1.3.6.1.2.1.4.34.1.3.2'".IP-MIB::ipAddressIfIndex.ipv6."24:00:52:00:a0:00:00:00:00:00:00:0d:04:00:0d:b9" = INTEGER...
about 1 month ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 0 Future consideration

DI Reporting Sorting - Customer is NBC Universal

Posted this to the SevOne Technical channel - opening for customer. customer recently upgraded to DI 7.0.4. Is there any way to save the sorting for a certain column in DI for metadata and performance metric widgets. They would like to save certai...
about 1 month ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) 0 Future consideration

Provide support to run the agent as non-root

With Separation of Duties (SOD), there are a number of application servers that are within a permission sandbox, ie WebSphere, WebLogic, Tomcat, Apache, Java JVM, which the running profile (user/group) has read, write and execute within it's direc...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Agent 0 Future consideration