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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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At the time of first reviewing the case to request for the backend server logs to be preserved by the SaaS team for retrospective review.

During the initial review of a case, the SaaS team should be able to save the back-end server logs and conduct a retrospective review.Of course, the customer needs to report the issue as soon as possible in order to have the best chance of preserv...
8 months ago in Instana / SRE 1 Not under 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...
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Planning 0 Planned for future release

Smart Alerts for Infrastructure and Kubernetes.

I can configure the smart alerts on the Application. I cannot however configure the smart alert on the Infrastructure components. How can I achieve it? If it's not possible I would like to request this as a feature since it is quite a helpful feat...
almost 3 years ago in Instana / Alert 2

Supporting the Monitoring Agent for HTTP Server on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS

I checked the KHU module for HTTP Server monitoring and found that when executing ./http_server-agent.sh start, a file named `khu.opt.IBMIHS.conf.httpd.conf` is automatically created, but it should be `khu.opt.HTTPServer.conf.httpd.conf`.
4 months ago in Cloud Pak for Multicloud Management Ideas 4 Is a defect

Allow for selecting multiple blocks for bulk operations

Allow selection of multiple blocks to allow for copy, clone or delete operations.
4 months ago in Rapid Network Automation 1 Functionality already exists

Provide additional explainability into probable cause ranking

The output of the probable cause ranking should also have an "explainability UI" similar to that of temporal correlation and seasonality which explains why the events in a topological correlation were assigned their probable cause rankings accordi...
8 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

Read Only Rights on maintenance windows

Hello As mentioned in ticket TS013910126, I want to give READ ONLY rights on maintenance windows, to some users. Currently we can only grant read/write permissions.Best regards
over 1 year ago in Cloud Pak for Multicloud Management Ideas 0 Not under consideration

conman to authenticate users through WAS/WLP and retrieve LDAP group to user information and authorize using group in assigni

DWC and composer are able to authenticate LDAP users and authorize using LDAP groups and assign security roles accordingly, but conman doesn't authenticate using LDAP hence can't authorize using LDAP groups and assign security roles. Separate ACLs...
about 4 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Planned for future release

Enable probe and other properties via UI

There are several instances today where the customer needs to change a property via swagger or going into the yaml file and adding probe or other component/global properties. This is not a great user experience and it would be ideal if user has th...
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 0 Not under consideration

Enable Profiling for Applications on Windows OS

Customers need the ability to identify hotspots at a very granular level, this will help them further troubleshoot Windows hosted applications and services. All customers current and future will benefit from this. This capability should work just ...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Agent 3