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Disable/Delete Flow Interface not seen for X Months

Flow interfaces never get disabled or deleted once they are allowed for collection. Over time, interfaces move or are disabled thereby leaving these flow interfaces to consume licenses when nothing is being collected. There's no way to tell if a f...
about 2 months ago in SevOne / Dedicated NetFlow Collector (DNC) 5 Future consideration

Add Views for Business Mapping

Southwest Airlines FinOps team utilizes Business Mappings and is aware that some tooling doesn't support the View setup with a Business Mapping.
about 2 months ago in Cloudability / Views 0 Under review

Services and applications should support opentelemetry logs

Application Perspectives (and Services) cannot currently display logs ingested from OTEL, even though the logs are mapped to a service. We raised support case TS020036806 which was closed with the advice to submit an Aha idea for this to go to our...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Logging 0

v3 API /api/v3/data/topn endpoint should allow for aggregationUnits to round to specific timestamps

Currently, V3 /api/v3/data/topn API allows for: AGGREGATION_AUTO (default value of v3 endpoint) AGGREGATION_DAILY AGGREGATION_HOURLY AGGREGATION_MONTHLY AGGREGATION_WEEKLY timespans in its API endpoint. This corresponds to shortterm data buckets o...
about 2 months ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 1 Needs more information

"discover-netflow" should display the current source of flow in mapped instead of the last link

Given the way Netflow is design, its possible to fail over from a lab environment was able to continue collecting netflow. However, there is a little caveat when it comes to the display name and management: Currently the NMS does not actively trac...
about 2 months ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 0 Future consideration

Allow rotation of all api tokens (access and service) using the api

Please allow rotation of all targetprocess api tokens (both v1 and v2 apis) directly using an API. This would allow us to rotate these automatically without having to change passwords or log into the UI. If api authentication is planning on being ...
3 months ago in Targetprocess / Data Import and Export 0 Under review

How can we make it easier for MSPs like BT to roll out updates at scale for 7.2 and 8.x environments?

Large MSPs like BT manage environments with 30+ clusters. Even with a ~30-minute upgrade time per cluster, the cumulative effort, scheduling, and risk of downtime make frequent updates challenging. Simplifying the rollout process (e.g., automation...
3 months ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 2 Future consideration

Delete actions, such as unnecessary snapshots and virtual NICs

I would like you to present actions to reduce waste other than VMs, Volumes, and DBs. I want to centrally manage wasted resources with Turbonomic.
10 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud IaaS 0 Planned for future release

Enhance Alert and Incident query API to enable filtering in alignment with the User Interface

Enhance the existing Alert and Incident retrieval APIs to include additional filtering conditions Enable the API to query alerts and Incidents using the same set of filters as available in the UI. Get the count of alarms The current API has the fo...
12 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 1 Planned for future release

Azure Services like Databricks, or AKS that create VMs should appear as a property in those VM entities.

With these properties being visible, Customer can create policies to exclude from policies VMs that are being managed by Azure Services. Customer can create UNPARKABLE collections based on Azure Services. Right now with 1000s of VMs, there is too ...
about 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud IaaS 4 Not under consideration