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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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Export and Import custom dashboard data

Hi team, Custom dashboards are becoming more popular with our internal and external customers, and one of the current needs is able to export and import custom dashboard data. For example, we have a bunch of JSON files and to import them we need t...
8 months ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 0 Future consideration

Native Connect to Cloud Pak 4 Data

ANZ has installed both Turbonomics and Cloud Pak for Data for different purposes Turbonomic's takes a number of data feeds from multiple IT Systems (e.g. vCentre, HyperV, HP Open View, Storage, OpenShift, Splunk and ServiceNow etc) providing analy...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Reporting 1 Not under consideration

Using "self time" in Smart Alerts

Is it possible to use the metric "Self Time" in a Smart Alert ? Specifically, it is about the monitoring of an API gateway. Since the response time depends on the caller and the called system, but it would be important to know if the self time of ...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Alert / Sensor 2 Future consideration

Upgrade the use of EWS to Graph API

Microsoft is urging everyone to move away from the current EWS API and instead use the Graph API due to security concerns.
over 1 year ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

Improvement of the Deployment of CA signed certificate for cp4mcm product

Openshit Version : 4.2 Cloudpak-MCM version : 1.2.0 Enterprise Hosting Cloud : AWS Background: During CP4MCM installation , installer expects the certificate (BYOC) to be located inside cfc-component directory which works perfectly fine. Feature e...
over 4 years ago in Cloud Pak for Multicloud Management Ideas 2 Planned for future release

Add AI transparency for similar incident application

For (AI) transparency reasons we like to see KPIs about the assignment of tickets to AiOps incidents in terms of quantity/quality. E.g. visualize how many tickets have been retrieved for an incident and how "similar" these tickets are (?? quality ...
8 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 1 Future consideration

Retard the generation of a webhook alert

Hi team, at the moment, when you have configured a webhook in a policy alert, when this policy alert is triggered, at the same time, the webhook is sent. We would like to have another option of sending the webhook, when the alert continues active,...
8 months ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 1 Not under consideration

I want to use Regex when creating a group based on a pattern in Accounts

A client had AWS Accounts with UAT in their names. We wanted to create a group of VMs from all these UAT Accounts. These UAT machines could be scaled more quickly without too much approval. ie. Accounts .*UAT.*
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 0 Not under consideration

Custom MessageKey value for XMLGateway and Kafka

nco_g_xml_11 allow using only @ServerSerial or @ServerName as value for ate.XMLGateway.MessageKey property. We need to use at leas the combination of the both fields (for example: @ServerName+to_char(@ServerSerial)) or any other field from Objects...
almost 4 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 2 Not under consideration

Allow installation and patching via sudo rule instead of requiring actual root access

Our security teams do not like providing us access to root to perform installations and patching activities. Their stated preference is that we use sudo rules. Having to coordinate the activity with the Linux admins means double the human resource...
almost 2 years ago in Workload Automation 2 Future consideration