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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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Within Turbo I should be able to select a group of items based on a larger group.

In my example I have created a group of accounts within our cloud environment, i should then be able to either apply a policy to the VM's that are in that group, or created a group of VM's that are in those accounts rather than having to duplicate...
6 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 0 Future consideration

Optimize logs trace on IWS to keep track of actions by LDAP user

Actually the IWS if we make a connection to authenticate users by ldap, (MS Active Directory) on norma audit logs files (database / plan) all actions like create, delete, update any scheduling object, are keeping with twsusr owner and not the pers...
over 1 year ago in Workload Automation 1 Future consideration

User-friendly message for unauthorized users

Today, when user is not authorized (i.e.: not part of any External Group in Turbo), Turbo displays a 500 server error: 500 Server Error: "{"type":500,"exception":"com.vmturbo.auth.api.authorization.AuthorizationException: Unable to authorize the u...
2 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 0 Future consideration

Instana kubernetes container memory monitoring improvement

What is your recommendation for monitoring memory usage for kubernetes pods/containers? So far we are using this in Instana: Kubernetes -> Container -> Memory Usage. (Prefer this as compared to pods because sidecars can get in the way) The p...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Kubernetes 4 Future consideration

Working hours also on Flow widget

Hi, we are in POC with HCL and they would like to have "working hours" setting also to work with flow widget. At the moment it works with "performance" widget but when we try to add flow widget to the report we cannot see working hours reflected i...
6 months ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) 0 Future consideration

Host Agent to run without sudoers permission

We've gotten this request from a few customers that don't want processes running as root. The request is to provide support for the Host Agent to run as non-root user. The customer understands that they would be giving up some of the discovery cap...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Agent 3 Future consideration

Add top level cloud provider filter to the Action Center Global Environment UI

Currently when starting at the Action Center Global Environment, you have to click on Scale/Volume or Resize/App Component, etc and then select which cloud provider you are interested in. This must be replicated for each level down in the Actions ...
2 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 0 Future consideration

Integrate, CyberArk with the Turbonomic

It is required to integrate, CyberArk with the Turbonomic tool is simply to have a single point of management for the service account credentials that we use in Turbonomic towards Cloud Providers (AWS, GCP, AZURE). CyberArk Secrets Manager uses a ...
4 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / APIs 0 Future consideration

Maintenance windows display a message/note for end users

Hi team, Customer asked: When placing a downtime on an entity(application, website, port) within Instana, is it possible to display a message/note in the latter? Example: For instance, we place a downtime between 13:00 – 18:00 an application named...
8 months ago in Instana / Alert 3 Future consideration

Add support for HPE 3Par successor HPE Primera

Add support for HPE 3Par successor HPE Primera, as this is the new storage from HPE and companies are moving away from 3Par to Primera now.
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Target Support 0 Future consideration