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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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Add supported commitment types across OCI

Adding supported commitment types across OCI instances as well. It would help us get commitment recommendations from OCI as well. We have significant amount of spending on OCI as well
8 days ago in Cloudability / Rate Optimization 1 Future consideration

Auto-refresh Report on Page Refresh or every 1 minute

We recommend implementing an auto-refresh feature for the reports, either on page load or every minute. This is especially beneficial for scenarios where actions are completed in under a minute, and users expect to see real-time updates reflected ...
9 days ago in Targetprocess / Reports 0 Submitted

Rightsizing ROI Widget totals based on 30/10 days, on-demand/effective

The current widget totals displaying the potential savings and realized savings show add up 10-days and 30-day timeline amounts. However the ticket is created this is how the potential and realized savings are displayed. Thus the total figures are...
9 days ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization 0 Future consideration

WAS Sensor - Enable an Application Status metric for each deployed Enterprise Application

We must be able to create a Custom Event for the Application Status.
16 days ago in Instana / WAS 0 Submitted

Collapsible bottom panel on Incident > Affected Resources tab

In an Incident, the Affected Resources tab has a bottom panel which is not collapsible and leaves very little room to examine the topology graph.
3 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 1 Under review

Methods unixssh : Using passphrase

Have the option of using an RSA key with a passphrase (for SSH) when using the unixssh method. At present, we are obliged to use keys without passphrases for the unixssh method, which poses security problems.
about 1 month ago in Workload Automation 0 Submitted

Monitor Processes that are in zombie State

REF : https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=technologies-monitoring-os-process#process-abnormal-termination Instana does Monitor Process Abnormal Termination, but does not seams to monitor processes that are in zombie sta...
4 months ago in Instana / Infrastructure 1 Future consideration

Monitoring file or directory - Recursive, Counting only files

REF : https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=technologies-monitoring-file Currently the probe counts the number of files in a specified folder . If there is a folder within the said folder , its being counted as a file The...
4 months ago in Instana / Infrastructure 3 Future consideration

Add "Alert Cubes" DI widget to summarize alerts by "groups of device groups" or "groups of object groups"

NOC / SOC engineers want a quick visual summary of their assets under management that may have alerts raised for them. By selecting a device group parent group or an object group parent group this will provide a summarized list of groups of groups...
26 days ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) 0 Future consideration
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Enable Turbonomic to support Red Hat OpenStack and any OpenStack

I have a client who have Turbonomic subscription and use Red Hat OpenStack and Ubuntu OpenStack as standard virtual machine infrastructure. The latest version of Turbonomic do not support OpenStack. We need to request add Openstack support in prod...
over 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Target Support 11 Not under consideration