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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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Application Perspective: Sorting by infrastructure

Currently it is not possible to sort the table in infrastructure-tab of services and APs by the first column
about 2 years ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 1 Not under consideration

IWS webhook capability

To have a EDWA action to trigger a custom webhook, nowadays modern alerting systems like Pager Duty / GNM even Netcool allows system to send alerts via API call.
about 4 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

API: Support EntityId->Host parameter in query to get all Snapshots of a single Host

Introduction: In an Enterprise Context, Instana contains valueable informations about running software on single machines or clusters, when an Agent is installed. With the current API it is hard to replicate UI functionalities, like showing all pr...
about 2 years ago in Instana / API-C / Infrastructure 2 Functionality already exists

Allow for local administrative login while utilizing SSO/MFA

When using MFA/SSO with Turbonomic it will only allow for login via that MFA/SSO provider. If something changes or the login no longer functions, it is then impossible to access the Turbonomic UI. I believe it would be a good idea to leave some so...
about 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Authentication & Security 1 Not under consideration

Would love to see a VPN feature for targets that sit behind one

When creating demos for customers, we don't always get access to their production environment during pre-poc stages. I was attempting to connect a Azure ROKS instance where Turbonomic is installed to another techzone instance of a vCenter for samp...
about 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Target Support 1 Not under consideration

TSRM Gateway needs a new property Gate.TSRM.MaximoAuthentication

Maximo v7.6.1 no longer allows anonymous logins. There is a new parameter, mxe.int.allowdefaultlogin, which overrides ALLOWDFLTLOGIN in SMP\maximo\applications\maximo\mboejb\ejbmodule\META-INF\ejb-jar.xml in ICD. When mxe.int.allowdefaultlogin is ...
about 2 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

Add Global Search on the main home/landing page to make is easier and quicker to search

Adding a global search option in the white space in the top bar on the main home screen to make is easier and quicker for users to search for anything in Turbo. As the search on the side is not a good user experience as it defaults to VM's and use...
about 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 0

Installation Process should also include using yaml to install

This is to provide an installation path when using the console is not an option because of customer security restrictions. Also to make changes after the installation you use yaml. Also if you have to make adjustments from the defaults then it's a...
about 4 years ago in Cloud Pak for Multicloud Management Ideas 0 Future consideration

Possibility to configure ulimits of instana containers (docker-based on-premise setup)

We recently had an issue with the max amount of open files per container. The Instana support told us, that there is currently no option to configure that. We'd love to configure that for specific containers in the settings.hcl file.
about 2 years ago in Instana / Self Hosted 3 Not under consideration

Customer requests that the networking portion of the Turbonomic supply chain show some data in the supply chain

Austin from TravelClick has a request that has some merit to it. The only way a person can see some real networking throughput numbers is to drill down to the VM level. We must be gathering the throughput numbers, yet when you click on networking ...
about 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / On-Premises (Hypervisor & Storage & Network) 1 Not under consideration