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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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Move enable/disable disruptive actions from Policy wide to action type

The option to enable/disable disruptive actions policy-wide is very restrictive. Most downscale actions are disruptive, but most upscale actions can be non-disruptive. In the current implementation, only a group of VM can be marked with this setti...
over 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 1 Not under consideration

Check Java version in prerequisite scanner

We recently updated one of our customers to ITNM FixPack 10. During preparation for the change, we checked the system requirements using the prerequisite scanner. Unfortunately, the prereq checker doesn't seem to check for the java version require...
about 4 years ago in Tivoli Network Manager 3 Not under consideration

ITM for Omegamon doesn't support Microsoft Crypto Api and/or Windows keystore

keyfile.kdb maintaining for ITM Omegamon is unflexible and makes certificate maintenance very time-consuming.Updates overwrite user specific settings. So we were forced to implement a customer specific kdb with special name to avoid this. Maintain...
7 months ago in ITM/IBM APM 1 Not under consideration

"Non-Disruptive" and "Reversible" Filter

This is an idea for the filter when creating a group. The customer would like to create a group with the attributes of being Non-Disruptive and Reversible (or at least one of them) for the volume. However, it seems that currently, we cannot use th...
about 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 0 Not under consideration

Support MongoDB Atlas properly

Please support MongoDB Atlas properly, so multiple clusters can be setup sepeartely.
over 2 years ago in Instana / Sensor 1 Not under consideration

Network Visibility

Due to the increasingly complex nature of the network, we spend a lot of time tracking down connectivity issues. These issues might be due to an unknown firewall rule, a misconfigured network policy, or incorrect routing setup in Kubernetes. Addin...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Kubernetes 2 Not under consideration

monitoring multiple vCenters from a single Agent

Per documentation (www.ibm.com/docs/en/obi/... you can deploy the agent on the vCenter itself or any agent of choice (linux/windows) on a remote system - the vCenter sensor is able to perform remote monitoring if installation on the vCenter is not...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Sensor 1 Not under consideration

Improve stitching where single service is backed by multiple different workloads

Turbo should be able to handle stitching where single service is backed by multiple different workloads. Also define which workload in an SLO policy will scale. PM update: Will convert this to an improvement on how Turbonomic stitches Services to ...
about 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Container Platforms (K8s & OpenShift) 1 Not under consideration

Webmethods 5.1 support

Our customer ISBANK wants to have webmethods 5.1 to be supported.
over 1 year ago in Instana / Java 1 Not under consideration

Nokia Netact SNMP integration - Snmpset operation to set 2 OID's at single execution

Nokia are removing support for their CORBA interface making SNMP interface the only supported solution . As SNMP comes up with risk to lose traps due to packet loss, between the EMS and the probe server, nokia netact comes up with the solution to ...
almost 3 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 1 Not under consideration