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Provide Store and Forward Feature for Message Bus Gateway

Need the same capability as other Netcool/Omnibus gateways for the Message Bus Gateway to store and forward the event data when the targeted message bus is unavailable.
almost 7 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 1 Planned for future release

Support namespace label or annotation matching for shared costs

Within the Containers (Container Insights 2.0), I would like to be able to use a namespace label or annotation it outline shared costs. The current limit of 50 characters does not scale within a production grade environment and unfortinatley curre...
about 1 year ago in Cloudability / Container Reporting 4

Coloration of lines in new view

There's a need to change the look of the new view so that you have coloration between the lines similar to that in old view because in the new view, everything's white.The gray, blue coloration helps them to choose the right line to forecast on.
5 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Future consideration

Create recomendations that are valid at availability zone level.

Cloudability is recommending a migration to an instance type that isn’t available in the availability zone where the resource currently runs. IBM Support has confirmed this is expected behaviour: Cloudability generates cost-optimisation recommenda...
5 months ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 1 Future consideration

An Out Of the Box report containing Table Names and Table Description on the Source Step in the table in Studio.

Description of the Idea: Our team has recently started using the “Table Description” field within the Source Step of a table to capture important documentation details. As part of this effort, we attempted to generate a report in CT that lists all...

Add a Groups tab beside the Policies tab when viewing a Workload

When viewing a workload, you can see the Policies that a Workload is impacted by, but there is no easy way in Turbonomic to see the groups that a workload is included in. As an administrator, you currently have to either use the API, or one of the...
5 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 0 Submitted

Avoid resizing windows VMs to tiers with ephemeral storage

When AWS instances are scaled to types with ephemeral (instance store) storage, Windows automatically assigns the ephemeral storage to available drive letters, causing EBS volumes to be reassigned. Turbonomic tracks ephemeral storage but doesn't m...
5 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud IaaS 0 Submitted

SevOne does not discover Serial number , Uptime , MAC address from SNMP devices

We rely on monitoring tools to gather discoverable info from devices as a Managed service provider . for example when a device gets swapped (with or without a change request) one way to flag it is checking serial number change . We are working on ...
5 months ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 1 Needs more information

Webhook for ElasticSearch Integration needs to support the objects included in the JSON format

The current Webhook for ElasticSearch Integration should be able to parse the current Elastic Common Schema as defined here: https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/ecs/current/ecs-log.html
over 2 years ago in AIOps Integrations 2 Future consideration

Support RegEx in Values field of Shared Rules

In Cloudability / Insights / Containers (Container Insights 2.0), I want to add some 'shared rules', based on Namespace names. - A regular Openshift cluster has 72 (!) namespaces starting with 'openshift-'. - As cluster admins, we install cluster ...
almost 2 years ago in Cloudability / Cost Allocation and Sharing 1 Future consideration