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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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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...
about 4 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

MongoDB support for Turbonomic

MongoDB support for Turbonomic
almost 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / APM & Applications & Databases 1 Functionality already exists

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 ...
about 4 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 1 Planned for future release

UI/UX - Single Search for all Entity Types

Be able to put in any entity type or group name, policy into a single search field rather than a side menu to pick if you are searching a VM or Storage devices etc.
almost 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 0 Planned for future release

Mutliple small Raw-Span PVCs instead of one large PVC

Answer: Use S3-comptabile object storage https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=openshift-api-reference#s3config for rawSpans to scale PVC limits We get the pvc from an external ceph cluster to openshift cluster. With 1000...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Self Hosted 5 Not under consideration

Offering a "community edition" with certain limitations.

To sell the product as a Product Lead, it is necessary to adopt an SMB business approach of getting more users to try it first. In this case, as with many other SMB products, a license that is available for free use in the customer's environment i...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / General/Other 1 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 an efficient feature, or path (e.g. API endpoint) to export Raw Flow data from SevOne for consumption over Kafka. SDB does this, but only for metrics. Attempts to use SevOne-act (as a way to work around the SDB limitation) result in long export times, would not scale, and would not be supported by IBM.

For SevOne customers using a Data Lake architecture, who want to store/process Raw Flow data, for downstream security or other analysis/anomaly detection would find this highly valuable.
7 months ago in SevOne / Data Bus (DB) 1 Future consideration

The WMI Proxy ID should be visable in the Cluster Manager Settings under the WMI Proxies tab

In order to add a WMI managed device via API you are required to enter the WMI Proxy ID, the ID is not made available anywhere in the product UI or CLI other than make a MySQL query, which is expressly stated as not a recomended process for custom...
about 1 year ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 0 Planned for future release

Check Java version in prerequisite scanner

We recently updated one of our customers to ITNM FixPack 10. During preparation for the change, we checked the system requirements using the prerequisite scanner. Unfortunately, the prereq checker doesn't seem to check for the java version require...
about 4 years ago in Tivoli Network Manager 3 Not under consideration