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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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Selective discovery of Prometheus sensor in Kubernetes Clusters

When deploying the Prometheus sensor to Kubernetes it tries to discover prometheus metrics endpoints from every service. This can lead to increased load and logs created by services that do not provide fitting metrics endpoints. When deploying the...
10 months ago in Instana / Kubernetes / Sensor 3 Future consideration

Have Turbonomic ignore DRS constraints if DRS is turned off on the cluster

I have some move policies that are failing to produce actions due to a restriction on "Segmentation Commodity" type constraint, built off of DRS rules imported from vCenter. However, even after I turned DRS off, it is still restricting the VMs eve...
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 1 Is a defect

Notification cards do not link directly to the mentioning comment.

Clicking a notification of a mention should take me straight to the comment in which I was mentioned, not merely to the top of the page the comment was on. We have some big tickets with long descriptions and lots of comments, so it is a pain to se...
10 months ago in Targetprocess / Other 0 Under review

TS015241046 - nco-p-patrol the probe not supported on zLinux

The customer "american express" is moving all Netcool to zLinux, when we try to install nco-p-patrol, it's not supporting. Please could you rebuild the probe to zLinux also? CC8WCEN NetcoolOMNIbus 8 Certified Probe for BMC PATROL V9 (nco-p-patrol-...
10 months ago in AIOps Integrations 0 Under review

Configuration of Access and Error Logs Retention and Size Policies for Nginx in Instana

Currently, the access and error logs generated by Nginx in Instana are stored under /var/log/instana/nginx and can occupy significant disk space. However, there is no way to configure retention and size policies for these logs, which can lead to s...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Self Hosted 5 Future consideration

SLES15 s390x Compatibility

We run our TADDM environment on SystemZ (S390x) SLES12/15. Looking for gaining ceritifcation and support for the tool on this platform.
11 months ago in Tivoli Application Dependency Discovery Manager 1 Future consideration

Allow the engine to load more than 250 AD Groups.

Currently when attempting to filter the Edit share list for available groups only 250 groups are shown in Available Groups. When we select All to share , in the Groups Selected for Sharing, all the groups should be visible so that we remove the Gr...
over 1 year ago in Workload Automation 1 Not under consideration

Ability to have a "No Action" Compliance rule terminator

We want to be able to check if a device has a feature and then confirm it is configured correctly. If it does not have the feature, the compliance policy should not fail. There should be a rule "No Action" terminator for the compliance fule.
about 5 years ago in Tivoli Netcool Configuration Manager 0 Future consideration

Dashboard threshold - marked out/backlighted

In Big Number widget add a field, that will include threshold. When threshold will be reached widget should be marked out/backlighted.
over 1 year ago in Instana / Backend Enablement 0 Future consideration

Add integrated links/info for far-end interface in out-of-the-box report

SevOne already understands the 2 device/interface mappings for a given link. WHen looking at a given interface, a link towards far-end interface should be provided in out-of-the-box report (ex: Network Device Summary, Interface Object Summary, etc.)
11 months ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) 0 Planned for future release