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Configure Plugins default

Configure plugins default on or off in cluster configuration.
6 months ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 0 Future consideration

Missing objects deletion

This should still be in effect if polling fails to a device. Currently if polling fails, objects are never deleted.
6 months ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 1 Functionality already exists

Add more information to device status page

When added, last discovered time and duration, object counts (visible/hidden) - currently only some this information is available and all of it is useful when debugging failures and adding new device types. Some is only available with SQL queries ...
6 months ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 1 Future consideration

Ensure 100 % Trace Visibility Across All Time‑Range Buckets

Problem / Use-case We learned that Instana rolls traces and spans into “time-buckets.” on serverside , for short and long term based traces, for operational technical reasons. Short presets such as Last 5 min or Last 15 min use very fine buckets (...
6 months ago in Instana / Tracing 1 Future consideration

BI reports local download feat.

Current process of exporting data/reports via email adds up extra step to the workflow. The tool triggers an email with URL instead of local downloads creating a second hop & adding additional step to get the dataset required for breakdown ana...
6 months ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 0 Future consideration

ADM sync directions could be separated to bi-directional and option to keep CT->ITP on hold, and automate ITP->CT.

Due to Cost Pools/Bill Codes/Dept reference data been added or modified for each month of a FY, we need to avoid the actual number been changed for prior months that already completed billing process.
9 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Future consideration

Automatic Forecast Update for New Resource Internal Labor Rates

Once an update is made to the internal labor resource rates for new year, would like ITP to recognize the new rate once the new year is in effect without the user having to do a manual update 
over 2 years ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Planned for future release

Build a dedicated topology observer for Solarwinds

Some customers of us (like ENI, ENEL, ...) have Solarwinds as network management tool and it would fine having the related observer to import the topology from it into the WAIOps platform they have installed like we do for other similar tools from...
over 2 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

All historical updates must be retained on entities

Historical updates are not retained for each update unless the updated field is entity state The update is not retained unless 5 minute is passed after the update is made, the idea here is to change the behavior to retain all udpates made on the s...
6 months ago in Targetprocess / Reports 0 Under review

Enable granular automation for databases

At current version, a Turbonomic admin can't choose the direction that a Database action can be executed. Even at Group creation, we don't have filters to pick just performance or Savings or if the Cost Impact is positive or negative (because some...
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM 0 Future consideration