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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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Monitoring the number of Cassandra Tombstones

We have recently found that Cassandra (a component of CNEA/ASM) performance is degraded due to large number of Tombstones. However, we can only see the high number of tombstones in pod logs but not a metric we can monitor. If we can montior the co...
29 days ago in Instana / Infrastructure 0 Submitted

instana enterprise operator

With the latest kubectl-intana Instana enterprise operator starting from version 1.0.0 onward, the tools with option 'version image-list' couldn't provide component info in an airgap environment or an environment without cluster connection. 1. The...
30 days ago in Instana / Self Hosted 0 Submitted

Cloudability for SAP Business Technology Platform (BTP)

SAP Business Technology Platform is an innovation platform optimised for SAP applications in the cloud and a PaaS cloud computing service offered by SAP.More than 16,000 cloud customers are using BTP, and due to the Transformation to S/4HANA, more...
30 days ago in Cloudability / Other 0 Submitted

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

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

Uncouple "view synthetics" and "view configuration" permission

We discovered that users able to view synthetics are also able to view the synthetics configuration. This configuration contains sensitive data, such as authentication tokens. It is extremely important that we are able to uncouple the two permissi...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Synthetic 0 Under review

Update the NMS to allow customer defined VPC endpoints for AWS Monitoring

To gather monitoring metrics, the SevOne AWS plugin utilizes a set of unknown (to the user) AWS endpoints published by Amazon, and subject to change. https://ip-ranges.amazonaws.com/ip-ranges.json SevOne documentation requires only an outbound 443...
3 months ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 2 Future consideration

Vertical Node Scaling for Kubernetes Nodes on VM.

VM scaling is available for ESX infrastructure VMs, and disabled for any Kubernetes Node running on a VM. Would like to see vertical Node Scaling capability in situations that warrant it like masters and internal infrastructure Nodes that remain m...

Need ability to refresh token within REST 2.0 API call

Need the REST Service 2.0 Beta to request and refresh the authentication 'bearer token' for an API call so that I don't have to manually request the token using a service like Postman.
15 days ago in Apptio / Data Connectivity (Datalink) 0 Submitted

The Netflow Rules Manager needs to include a pop up or other UI based notification that changes to the rules will not take effect until after the existing flows are stopped external to SevOne

The Netflow Rules Manager needs to include a pop up or other UI based notification that changes to the rules will not take effect until after the existing flows are stopped external to SevOne
15 days ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 2 Future consideration