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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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Manual seeding option is not available

As of now we dont have the option of manually adding the devices into INM and it is not supported. With the current design this option is only available to ping based discovery. Adding the Ad-hoc device is not possible so can you guys add this fun...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

Onboarding requires ICMP response

For onboarding any new device in to the infrastructure it needs to have proper ICMP response, without that the servers cannot be onboarded. As per IBM, in file based discovery the device might be pollable even when ICMP is not working. In our curr...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

Device gets automatically deleted after 3 retries if not pingable/SNMP pollable

When a device gets added to the list and by chance if the server is not pingable / SNMP pollable then as per the current design the device gets deleted from the list automatically. There are instances where the servers might be in DMZ and they mig...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 1 Future consideration

Maintenance Mode to send notification when CI is put into Maintenance Mode

When a user creates a Maintenance Schedule we don't have any option of notifying the user on whether the schedule is created successfully or not. Currently there is no notification for either creating / after the schedule ends.
almost 2 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

Include CPU Provisioned figures in the Alleviate Pressure plan

When running the Alleviate Pressure plan in Turbonomic it does not include CPU Provisioned in the output fields. For both the Cluster Merge and Optimization plans this figure is present. This would be helpful to display the pressure release in a c...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 0 Future consideration

Improve reliability of sending data to Instana

We have been observing regular connection failures (about 100 within a week for about a dozen services), when the Node agent was attempting to send data to the Instana servers. The error message was often related to timeouts: Error received while ...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Node 2 Future consideration

Keep Jobstream when conman cancel Js

When you cancel JS;pend the Jobstream keeps into the planning but when you cancel without pend the jobstream disappear then you cannot use Rerunsucc function
about 2 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Future consideration

Dependency(File,Resource etc) should contain wait & timeout options

Dependency(File,Resource,prompt etc) should contain wait & timeout options
about 4 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Future consideration

Time slicer

In some situations it is more practical to have a time slicer. The purpose here is to fix the relative time (i.e. a week) but move the slicer over a timeframe to look at data from a week with various start dates.
about 2 years ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 0 Future consideration

TSRM Gateway needs a new property Gate.TSRM.MaximoAuthentication

Maximo v7.6.1 no longer allows anonymous logins. There is a new parameter, mxe.int.allowdefaultlogin, which overrides ALLOWDFLTLOGIN in SMP\maximo\applications\maximo\mboejb\ejbmodule\META-INF\ejb-jar.xml in ICD. When mxe.int.allowdefaultlogin is ...
about 2 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration