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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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Deletion Action for Long-Unused Virtual Machines (with unused volume deletion)

I believe that generating a deletion action for virtual machines that haven't been used for a long time could lead to more effective cost reduction. Do we have any plans to implement this? While the instances themselves are shut down using the PAR...
8 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Billing & Costs & Discounts 0 Submitted

Business Monitoring: adding a limited access to the user of a group for particular business processes

The customer Iveco wants that some users can see some business processes and other users can see other business processed. More or less we sould have a "limited acess" radio button in the group configuration like the application perspective.
3 months ago in Instana / Access Control 3 Planned for future release

Instana agent not to monitor openshift "system" namespaces

At this moment instana agent when deployed on OpenShift kubernetes cluster reports monitoring issues for some (not all) of the openshift system apps deployed in system napespaces (namespaces that begin with openshift-* or kube-*). We do not want t...
22 days ago in Instana / Agent / Kubernetes 0 Under review

With Infra Smart Alerts provide a way to prevent auto closure

Problem/use-case: We have a subset of alerts that are triggered based on problems that happen in an instant (1-shot) where the events are in good right away. Such Issues are for example triggered by a metric which only shows a short spike. Consequ...
8 days ago in Instana / Common 0 Submitted

Enable Synthetic Test Metric Collection for Custom Dashboards

Summary:We would like to request the ability to capture and store custom metrics gathered during the execution of synthetic tests in IBM Instana. These metrics, which can be extracted from SQL queries, API responses, or other synthetic test result...
9 days ago in Instana / Synthetic 0 Submitted

file dependecies

Chiediamo che un job che ha come dipendenza l’attesa di un file NON deve scattare/partire appena il file viene creato (quindi ancora con la copia dei dati in corso) ma quando la copia è terminata e/o il file “chiuso dal processo di copia”
9 days ago in Workload Automation 0 Submitted

plugin transfer - replace file in another local path

Chiediamo se è possibile avere un opzione (un checkbox o altro) da selezionare se si volesse eseguire il replace del file che si desidera spostare su altro path nella macchina locale dell'ftp
9 days ago in Workload Automation 0 Submitted

post action file transfer

Per ogni file trasferito tramite un job chiediamo che venga eseguito immediatamente la propria post action senza attendere il transfer di tutti i file del job.
9 days ago in Workload Automation 0 Submitted

Have a method to script for a custom metric

Summary: Provide a custom metric method for the IBM Instana agent which a script (perl/java/sh/etc) could be hosted within the IBM Instana agent and would run at set intervals. The output would then be published to the backend on the node/server. ...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Infrastructure 3 Not under consideration

The SevOne DI reports scheduled to FTP were overwritten

Dear Sir: We found out when we were scheduling (every weekly or monthly auto export) FTP exported the report of Data Insight. The FTP exported PDF file name of Data Insight is the same as previously file name. So the new exported file PDF will cov...
3 months ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) 0 Future consideration