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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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Application and Event monitoring statefulset operators

The community around the operator pattern and the community framework has gained a lot of traction and has matured quite a bit from its original proposal and delivery. There are increasingly more examples of technologies adopting this pattern (htt...
almost 5 years ago in Cloud Pak for Multicloud Management Ideas 0 Future consideration

Operator pattern based deployment lifecycle management for the Application and Event monitoring workload

Refactor the ibm-cloud-appmgmt-prod helm chart to be replaced by a go-sdk operator for controlling the deployment lifecycle, administrative and operation tasks of the IBM Cloud App Management workload. Note: Not to be confused with using a helm-ty...
almost 5 years ago in Cloud Pak for Multicloud Management Ideas 1 Future consideration

Vertical scaling of Application and Event monitoring stateful services

A means by which to effectively perform vertical scaling of key stateful services in the `ibm-cloud-appmgmt-prod` chart. Today, the stateful services include PersistentVolumeClaims in their pod spec, and use helm values to configure the size of th...
almost 5 years ago in Cloud Pak for Multicloud Management Ideas 0 Future consideration

Enhanced Visibility of Deployed Application Versions.

Update the topology, application, and/or overview screens in MCM to more effectively see what release(s) of applications are deployed to which clusters. These views should be consumable even when there are 100s of clusters and support grouping by ...
almost 5 years ago in Cloud Pak for Multicloud Management Ideas 0 Future consideration

More control for application updates at scale

When doing an application update (such as from v1.0 to v1.1) for multiple Deployables each deployed in their own cluster, the customer needs more control over how those upgrades are performed. The ability to do a canary deployment (upgrade just on...
almost 5 years ago in Cloud Pak for Multicloud Management Ideas 0 Future consideration

Rolling upgrades for a single Deployable

When doing an application update (such as from v1.0 to v1.1) for a single Deployable, MCM should support Kubernetes rolling upgrades for each service in the application so that the application can be upgraded with zero downtime. Our understanding ...
almost 5 years ago in Cloud Pak for Multicloud Management Ideas 2 Future consideration

Configuring multiple devices using IDT

Network Operation Team currently configure multiple devices using scripts that use direct CLI connections to the devices.Weneed to modify these scripts to use IDT connections to the devices. However IDT can only connect to one device at a time. We...
almost 10 years ago in Tivoli Netcool Configuration Manager 2 Future consideration

Provide Automation using Ansible for deploying ICAM Agents for Clouds ( VM) and Containers.

Provide builtin automation playbooks that deploys ICAM / ITM/APM agents across Public clouds and containers. This is not just for install but can be called on demand
almost 5 years ago in Cloud Pak for Multicloud Management Ideas 0 Future consideration

Configure ICAM and Prometheus/Grafana out of the box to monitor CP4MCM components

ICAM, Prometheus, Event , Ansible remediation must all be confugured out of the box to monitor and event on CP4MCM component's health and automated remediation action. No post install manual configuration should be needed if the component is insta...
almost 5 years ago in Cloud Pak for Multicloud Management Ideas 1 Future consideration

Transition ION smart driver

Transition ION backup and restore card(media converter) configurations in 19-Slot or 6-Slot Chassis
over 5 years ago in Tivoli Netcool Configuration Manager 0 Future consideration