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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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Azure default configuration.yaml and documentation is very misleading

When looking at the default configuration.yaml for Azure and looking at the documentation, it is very misleading. And, it does not follow standard documentation principals. It causes confusion and causes customers to specify invalid configurations...
14 days ago in Instana / Azure 0 Submitted

Add Concert integration

Please add the IBM Concert integration to the automation library. This will allow us to start developing templates for the joint operation between the two products. Here is the Swagger: https://developer.ibm.com/apis/catalog/PRODUCT--concert--ibm-...
14 days ago in Rapid Network Automation 1 Functionality already exists

SCVMM Multiple Domains and Users

We need to opportunity to connect to one SCVMM with different users of different domains. That is because we are running different domains in a single scvmm with no trust between these Domains. The problem now is that we only can use one User for ...
29 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Target Support 0 Future consideration

Policies when doing Initial Placement should include VM Dynamic Filter Logic

When using the Place/Initial Placement functionality, part of the process is selecting Placement or Do Not Place Policies in addition to the Scope. When selecting a VM template and selecting a Place Policy that has Dynamic criteria (e.g. if a VM h...
6 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 0 Future consideration

Distinguish between instance names in IBM Cloud Databases instances on Infrastructure Map.

[Background] The customer is developing the system on IBM Cloud, and uses a lot of "IBM Cloud Databases for PostgresSQL" and "IBM Cloud Databases for Redis" instances.Checking these instances on Infrastructure Map, all instances are listed with th...
3 months ago in Instana / IBM Cloud 0 Future consideration

Have a method to script for a custom metric

Summary: Provide a custom metric method for the IBM Instana agent which a script (perl/java/sh/etc) could be hosted within the IBM Instana agent and would run at set intervals. The output would then be published to the backend on the node/server. ...
2 months ago in Instana / Infrastructure 4 Not under consideration

Start supporting AWS target configuration via IAM Roles inside IBM Cloud (ROKS) using the CCO operator

Currently, Turbonomic has two ways of connecting cloud targets, via Access key for each AWS account or using IAM Roles. However, the integration functionality via IAM Roles does not work in environments outside AWS (EKS/ROSA), such as ROKS (IBM Cl...
11 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Authentication & Security 0 Planned for future release

Support Cron Expressions for automations scheduling

TargetProcess allows scheduling automations to run every x days, y hours, or z minutes. It would be a great improvement if we could use Cron Expressions to schedule automations. For example, if I want to run a specific automation every monday and ...
about 1 month ago in Targetprocess / Other 1 Under review

Clickhouse Retention based on age of data

We would like to move the data on the clickhouse based on the age of the data. For a monitoring tool the most recent data is the most important. But older data gets not looked at as often. So in an effort to reduce cost for storage we want to be a...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Self Hosted 0 Under review

Adding Maintenance Window for Object/Object Group

We currently have the capability to add maintenance windows for devices in SevOne. However, we need to extend this functionality to specific interfaces or objects. We request the addition of Maintenance Windows at the object level, allowing for ma...
about 1 month ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 0 Future consideration