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Would like to define Warning and Critical threshold ranges within a single Event or SmartAlert

If a customer wants to create both a Warning and Critical threshold for the same underlying metric, they create either 2 Smart Alerts or 2 Events. For example, create a Warning Event when CPU usage is between 80% and 90% utilization and Critical E...
7 months ago in Instana / Alert 2 Delivered

TADDM FP9 Supports Current DB2

TADDM 7.3.0.9 supports DB2 up to V11.5 GA, but this is already outdated. TADDM 7.3.0.9 needs to support the lates DB version 11.5 Fix Pack Mod 6 FP 0 https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/1102545#m6fp0
about 3 years ago in Tivoli Application Dependency Discovery Manager 1 Delivered

disable ingress/egress records when not available

In NetFlow, there is an option to disable this. Uncheck "Create Ingress/Egress Records when not available". I don't see the same option for sFlow.
about 1 year ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 1 Delivered

Change the Memory Setting in "Host Templates" to Gigabytes rather than Megabytes

Due to the size of memory in all hardware now having the memory setting in megabytes takes some additional time to work out as have to calculate the exact MB amount when converting from GB in machine. Would be easier to have the memory amount sett...
about 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Planning 0 Delivered

Permissions - Configuration of Events, Alerts, Smart Alerts

We would like to prevent the user from deleting or disabling custom made Events, Alerts, Alert Channels made by other users and allow user to make their own.
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Access Control / Alert 1 Delivered

Mobile App metrics for Grafana plugin

Right now users are not able to get mobile app metrics from the Instana plugin in Grafana. This would be greatly appreciated to add this feature. We would like to be able to display mobile app data in Grafana for our business partners. Filtering o...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Backend Enablement / Real User Monitoring 5 Delivered

WebSphere Java metrics obtained directly from the Dynatrace probe

Turbonomic Dynatrace probe does not currently support Heap and GC metrics specifically for WebSphere. The supported method for collecting this data is through the native WebSphere probe. If the Dynatrace probe support WebSphere metrics fully then ...
8 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Target Support 2 Delivered

From the “Instana trial” start mail, make access to “Instana dashboard” easy to understand.

The problem in this case is that when a customer applies to use “Instana trial” and actually tried to use it, they do not know where to access it. The contents are as follows. Follow the link below to apply for access to the 14-day Instana trial. ...
8 months ago in Instana / Common 0 Delivered

Path tool option to perform DB trace

When running the path tool within ITNM, it always performs a live trace of the routing data by querying specific OIDs via SNMP. As those OIDs might not all be available on certain devices, it would be a nice feature if the path could be determined...
over 7 years ago in Tivoli Network Manager 3 Delivered

Scaling powered off VMs

There are numerous scenarios where a VM is powered off and can/should be scaled. Once a workload is powered off though, the action goes away. I think it's important to allow these resources to be resized before they're powered on and requiring ano...
about 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM 1 Delivered