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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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Need Cisco IOS Software [Cupertino], C9800 Software (C9800_IOSXE-K9), Version 17.9.5 to be supported

Issue: BT has 2 clusters with different WIFI device software versions. One is working on WIFI 6.5 and the non working is on 6.7.1. The Cisco device software versions are: Version 17.9.5 device is functional in another cluster under SNMP v2. Versio...
4 months ago in SevOne / Enterprise Wireless (WIFI) 1 Planned for future release

Close or surpress event based on condition

This is an enhancement/feature request re. capability to close events or suppress events based on conditions met, in order to have a (more) precise and flexible event duration rather than the default duration
4 months ago in Instana / Enterprise Applications 0 Under review

Ability to customize the version 10.1 Workload Designer.

To make the Workload Designer fit the needs of the customer end users. We will like to have the ability to customize the Workload Designer.These are the customizations possibilities we will like to have in the Workload Designer: 1 . The ability to...
4 months ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

Support Amlen for Metrics and Traces

Currently, the MQTT Broker Amlen is not recognized as a technology by Instana. It would be great to have a sensor (as well as dashboard, built-in metrics, ...) for Amlen. Amlen provides most important metrics via REST API. In addition, Instana doe...
8 months ago in Instana / Integrations 1 Future consideration

provide Folder organization for dashboards

Currently, when you have a large number of dashboards, they are all just listed (alphabetically at least) in a very large drop down listbox. It would be very useful if there was an alternative way to manage all of the dashboards using folders or s...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Common 1 Future 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...
about 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Planning 0 Planned for future release

'Current Transfers' does not match time span

For MFT, if you change the time span on the 'IBM MQ MFT Coordination Queue Manager' dashboard the 'Transfer Statistics' chart is updated with the new time span. For the 'Current Transfers' table this does not happen, and it will only show the tran...
11 months ago in Instana / MQ / Sensor 0 Planned for future release

While in group edit mode, default search bar to return results within the group

When you navigate to Settings > Groups > searchbar > (search query), you get returned results from the total inventory of that entity type. Often times you need to edit the pre-existing group from a sparse collection of VMs, so it would b...
8 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 2 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
about 1 year ago in Cloud Pak for Multicloud Management Ideas 0 Not under consideration

Need ability to combine different entities in one threshold

Dear colleagues, our customer monitors several situations with Tivoli Monitoring that can't be replicated in Instana . They're considering for transition to Instana, so they're interested in implementation of the analogs to what they use in ITM. B...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Future consideration