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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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Need to do custom filters (Condition) to retrieve the data from SharePoint.

For more details, please find the related support case number TS015931307.
7 months ago in Instana / ACE/IIB 2 Not under consideration

Stop Azure Application Gateway via a schedule/policy to reduce costs when back-end pools are off line or shutdown.

Azure Application Gateways cannot be stopped/started via the Azure Web Portal, but they can be stopped or started using Azure CLI or Powershell. There is also a POST command API method to start/stop an Application Gateway that can be found in the ...
about 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM 0 Future consideration

configure RBAC on dashboards so that groups of people can edit/manage/view

The RBAC model isn't very mature, and if someone is an owner of a dashboard, only they can edit it. what happens if a change is needed when someone is away?Being able to group dashboards would also help with usability
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 3 Future consideration

Limit NCIM Connectionpool in DASH

When having ITNM integrated into DASH, we can see quite a lot of connections going from the DASH server to the database. This is due to the connection pool being for the ITNM GUIs to connect to the database. We'd like to have an option to limit th...
about 6 years ago in Tivoli Network Manager 2 Not under consideration

Automatic rebuild topological view after discovery

After run of discovery we need the automatic update of topological view for include new devices discovered. See also further datail in reported case.
over 3 years ago in Tivoli Network Manager 1 Functionality already exists

Need to be able to create a custom Event via the Agent API and specify a Host other than the Host of the Agent

Need to be able to create a custom Event via the Agent API and specify a Host other than the Host of the Agent. A customer is doing remote detection of problems. They want to be able to open an Event and have the Event indicate that it is affectin...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Alert 2 Not under consideration

try/catch in Impact Policy should give full stack trace

When writing Java Script Impact Policies I noticed the following:In the below code example Log(error.stack) seems to only output a truncated stacktrace, which isn't really much use in debugging. I see that I can use error.message,but that does not...
almost 4 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

ScopeBasedGrouping GUI should expose the Policy Name to the parent event of the group

The GUI available in DASH/WebGUI to configure a policy for Scope Based Groups should expose the policy name to the parent event. Otherwise it is not possible to associate any further logic to the group or its parent event.It's probably relatively ...
almost 4 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 1 Planned for future release

[Instana] Capture table name during batch writes operation

Currently, our system doesn't support capturing the table name for batch writes and we would like to benefit from this feature.
about 1 year ago in ITM/IBM APM 1 Not under consideration

Provide a "performance per watt" metric for environments

The idea of a "performance per watt" metric for hardware environments - particularly x86 platform - would be a good way of distinguishing between server types at a fundamental sustainability level. I suspect the metrics needed for this are already...
about 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Sustainability 2 Future consideration