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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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Manually setting sampling rate to SevOne NMS.

When monitoring Sampled NetFlow, It needs to configure the sampling rate on the network device to send it to SevOne.Without this configuration, SevOne will not recognize the sampling rate, and the traffic volume displayed on the Flow widget will b...
3 months ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 0 Future consideration

Exclude idle time in IOPS and Throughput metrics

Consider excluding idle time when calculating IOPS and Throughput metrics used for recommendations or add it as an optional way to interpret and view recommendations. The current formula used is the sum of read and write operations dived by time p...
3 months ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 0 Future consideration

Adding a new auto-population column in an existing standard dimension which can be published to CT as well.

As of now it is not possible to add a new column in a standard dimension and auto-populate it in ITP whenever other column in the same standard dimension is populated by the planner. Please refer to Support Case No TS018500846 for more details.
3 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Future consideration

API roi end point to support Accept = text/csv

Currently the API does not support Accept = text/csv hence we are not able to pull all fields with the API. Currently it is missing timeline if using Accept = text/csv
3 months ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 0 Future consideration

Datadog metric history plot

Impossible to have the metrics for more than 30 days even with DataDog integration (we would like 3 or 6 months)
3 months ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 0 Future consideration

Improve ApptioBI Alerting(Insights) to not require a manual reset

Provide the ability to automatically reset a trigger when trigger, without having to delete are re-create trigger. This will save time. Also provide the ability to generate multiple triggers/alerts for each Dashboard.
3 months ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 1 Future consideration

I want to prevent the file /tmp/.com_ibm_tools_attach/* that TEPS starting command creates.

When /opt/IBM/ITM/lx8266/iw/java/jre/bin/java is executed (when TEPS starts up), some files '/tmp/.com_ibm_tools_attach/*' will be generated. I would like to prevent these files from being generated. The related IBM support inquiry is this one: ht...
3 months ago in ITM/IBM APM 2 Future consideration

and or statements in filter

When creating filters in Apptio BI you are unable to create a combination of and en or statements. Hence you need to create several statements to achieve this. As an example i have this statement below. It would me much more efficient if we can ne...
3 months ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 1 Future consideration

Support Scaling Actions for GCP Sole Tenancy Workloads

In GCP you can deploy workloads on Sole Tenancy Nodes, typically large projects. We would want to optimize workloads running on sole tenancy nodes to achieve more savings. Currently, Turbo discovers those workloads without actions.
3 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud IaaS 2 Future consideration

NetFlow support for defining Custom Virtual Interfaces in the DNC

NetFlow from multiple airports (via MSP) arrives on a single NetFlow interface, requiring them to define CVIs in their current tool. While SevOne can sort of cover the capability using multiple network segments, it isn't as straight forward as the...
3 months ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 2 Future consideration