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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 manage LDAP authentication, LDAP Group to role definition mapping and role definitions via direct configuration files and/or administrative APIs

Ability to manage LDAP authentication, LDAP Group to role definition mapping and role definitions via direct configuration files and/or administrative APIs. We are required to automate cluster build setup and today that is not fully possible as al...
over 1 year ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 0 Planned for future release

Showing the Revision/Version of Azure Windows on Turbonomic Entity UI

Currently, in the Turbonomic Entity UI, "Windows" is shown under "OS and Software." However, in the Azure Console, "Operating system" is displayed as "Windows (Windows Server 2019 Datacenter)," showing details like the type of Windows OS and its R...
10 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud IaaS 1 Not under consideration

Add possibility of new indicator types to the DNS poller object

Add support for various DNS records like TXT, MX, CNAME, etc. Option that checks whether the data received is the expected one.
over 1 year ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 1 Future consideration

Board view - use backslash instead of forwardslash in horizontal/vertical setup

Changing the forward slash to backslash in the lane for horizontal/vertical lanes in boards. This way they would look more like the Excel, where if you have a table and drawn lane for one cell, it is crossed down like backslash.
10 months ago in Targetprocess / Views (Lists, Boards, Roadmaps, Dashboards) 1 Not under consideration

Action Center Proof-UI: Better explaining reasons for Turbonomic's resource decisions, especially cluster scaling

If Turbonomic generates host provision actions the risk listed in the pending actions widget or in the action center is e.g. named "Clone <host name> on cloned ...". This is not the risk why Turbonomic has decided for a cluster scaling. The ...
10 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / On-Premises (Hypervisor & Storage & Network) 0 Future consideration

Built in event to alert for Windows service not running

Currently, built in events only support for process monitoring. However certain Windows processes such as IIS workers run in the background during periods of inactivity and start backup once corresponding .NET application receives traffic. Alertin...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Alert 1 Not under consideration

Capture details on request payload

Need ability to capture details on request payload this helps to troubleshoot issues without need for applications to log the same. Feature available with competitors. Please refer to - https://docs.appdynamics.com/appd/4.5.x/en/application-monito...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 2 Not under consideration

Allow Instana data source in Grafana to "Skip TLS verify" when using proxy

The Instana plugin in Grafana doesn't work if you use the proxy mode and the Instana on-prem uses a self signed certificate. You get this error message:Proxy request failed" err="x509: certificate signed by unknown authority" Most other data sourc...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Integrations 1 Future consideration

Ability to synchronize TWS files between MDM and BMDM automatically

Replicate TWS, WAS files located under a particular directory structure in MDM to automatically synchronize with the directory structure available in BMDM. localopts, ~/TWS/methods/XA*.opts, security.xml, wimconfig.xml, WAS properties gets changed...
over 7 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Future consideration

Google Cloud Run Support (serverless GKE)

As a user of Cloud Run, can Turbonomic help manage the tradeoffs of running services, maintaining a minimum number of replicas for the burst scenario, but avoiding unnecessary cost in idle services.
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Container Platforms (K8s & OpenShift) 1 Not under consideration