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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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Ability to only allow certain user groups to import data to Planning

Importing directly to the system has risks related to overwriting the data, and an average user is not capable or trained to be able to complete this reliably. We would like for this option to be only with Admin, or select users at Admin discretion
1 day ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Submitted

Ability to load customised public views at a plan-level, rather than system-wide shared

We have multiple user types that will not share the use of the same plans, and so we would like to customise the public views each of the users can see by plan. Currently this is set/shared for all Plans within Planning.
1 day ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Submitted

Uninstallation instructions in the main documentation.

At present, the instructions provided at https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/rapid-network-auto/1.1.x do not provide uninstallation instructions. While maybe not the most critical of things, it might help to include some uninstallation steps to remove an ...
2 days ago in Rapid Network Automation 0 Submitted

Monitoring Microsoft Hyper-V

We must be able to monitor Microsoft Hyper-V.
8 days ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Submitted

Access Admin integrated with Usage data reporting

Integrate Access Admin data with Usage to provide reporting that includes role granted/changed, last time logged in, environment accessed, persona, and customization for persona or organization data. Use case 1: Our security protocol requires user...
3 days ago in Apptio / User Management & Login 0 Submitted

Azure Storage Accounts Metrics Missing

When monitoring Azure File Shares with Azure storage accounts and their metrics in Instana, there are missing metrics for monitoring Used Capacity. It's available in Azure metrics and most usefull of them all. But in Instana that is not available ...
3 days ago in Instana / Azure 0 Submitted

Enable a mobile application to extend monitoring and observability functions beyond the desktop.

Clients want to view their applications and infrastructure from their smartphones on Android or iOS.
8 days ago in Instana / Cross teams/areas 0 Submitted

Enable the System Uptime metric in the events for all hosts

Enable the metric to create events when a server has been rebooted recently, e.g., when its uptime is less than 5 minutes.
8 days ago in Instana / Agent 0 Submitted

Terraform Support for Turbonomic

Why is it useful? Enables customers to manage Turbonomic with policy-as-code capabilities Enables customers recreate policies in the event of a disaster within Turbonomic (redeploy capabilities) Enables customer to reduce risk following software d...
8 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / SaaS 3 Submitted

Enable Internet Service Monitoring protocols in Instana

We must be able to monitor more protocols with less effort like an ISM Agent: DNS resolution, DHCP, FTP, LDAP, NTP, TCP PORT, SNMP simple, Synthetic Check sensor supports HTTP and ICMP ping. We can ensure a seamless migration of customers from ITM...
8 days ago in Instana / Synthetic 0 Submitted