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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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Set Action Concurrency per Policy

Customer is using Turbo to migrate VMs from one storage cluster to another. They want to set action concurrency via the UI for the automation policy without impacting the global concurrency settings. For their use case, they wanted to always see 5...
about 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM 1 Not under consideration

Ability to freeze generated actions for a specific group

I would like the ability to freeze the generated actions for a specific group so that when we notify resources owners of the action a week prior, we take that specific action or none at all on their resource. For example: We sent out notifications...
about 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM 2 Not under consideration

Allow Account Administrator to delete any user created dashboards

As an account administrator, I am able to create and share dashboards to all users. Any user with the "workload optimizer observer" role is also able to create and share dashboards to all users. Occasionally, new users within turbo (IWO) create da...
about 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 0 Not under consideration

Enable VM group creation by filtering on VMware Horizon Persistence state (Persistent vs Non-Persistent VM)

Being able to create Turbonomic groups based on whether a VM is a Persistent or Non-Persistent VDI instance would allow Turbo automation to be managed based on the instance type.
about 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM 0 Planned for future release

Move Pool Workstation without having to create Mirror Pool

We need to have the ability to move a Pool Workstation around between Dynamic Domain Managers (DDM) without having to create a mirror of it on the target DDM. This would be MDM to DDM or even DDM to DDM. The benefit of this would be to avoid all t...
about 2 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

To be able to see POST parameters in Instana

The URI of the service called from the screen in the package used by the customer is /cc/claimcenter.do. Currently we cannot check that "which function to call is written in the parameters in the POST".So it will be great to see POST parameters in...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Tracing 1 Not under consideration

Password expiration process for Netcool Omnibus

The Netcool Omnibus does not have password expiration policy or feature for FID that resides in Object server. At present, password is changed by ISA team member who belongs to “Administrator” or “System” group “. The ISA team member shares the sc...
about 3 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

Support for podman on RHEL8 for Self-hosted backend server

At this point, we are not planning to add support for hosting the Instana backend with podman. The RHEL 8 docker package has been replaced by the container-tools module in RHEL 8 and some customers do not want to install docker-ce for RHEL 8 for t...
about 3 years ago in Instana / Self Hosted 12 Not under consideration

Turbonomic - GitOps Integration using Webhooks workflows

Several customers request GitOps integration with Turbonomic, however native integration (ArgoCD + Github/Gitlab) does not fully meet this demand. My suggestion is to create a new integration option, where kubeturbo just collects information fr...
about 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM 2 Not under consideration

We have checkpoint devices for which we need HAstate to get monitored, where snmpwalk for object is a string. It is required to poll and graph string values.

We have devices that need to get polled using string value.
about 1 year ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 0 Planned for future release