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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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Add support for 'operSt: ok' response from APIC for SevOne SDN solution

It has been found that the 'operSt' indicator from a Cisco APIC will at times respond with a string "ok", like so: "operSt": "ok", Currently, the SDN product will mark this response with a '0' as it aligns with 'unknown' "unknown": 0, "down": 1, "...
17 days ago in SevOne / Software Defined Networking (SDN) 0 Under review

"Limited access" users should be able to use "Analyze Infrastructure"

When you want to set the permission of Infrastructure of a group with "limited access", you cannot set "Analyze Infrastructure" permission to ON. It means that "limited access" users cannot use "Analyze Infrastructure" features today. I assume tha...
17 days ago in Instana / Infrastructure 0 Submitted

Turbo does not support SQL database scaling actions between vCore and DTU pricing models

Turbonomics can scale up/down existing tiers but cannot change the service tier (vCore to DTU) or provision an elastic pool. Existing customer would like to use it now. Could this be considered to be an enhancement to address this limitation?
17 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / APM & Applications & Databases 0 Submitted

Dark mode in target process

Would be nice to at least have the option for a dark mode in target process to reduce eye strain. Thank you
2 months ago in Targetprocess / User Experience 0 Under review

Make regionMap available through target addition page

Today when adding an AWS target, is the customer's SCP policies do not allow access to all regions (which is the case for 75%+ customers), they need to edit the regionMap to specify which regions they support. This has to be done through swagger a...
3 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Target Support 0 Planned for future release

Add features suitable for multi-tenant usage. Ex) Creating templates for user groups

Original Request from the customer.------------------------- Add features suitable for multi-tenant usage. Ex) Creating templates for user groups Question by IBM team.------------------------- Please provide examples and desired outcome. I want to...
11 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Reporting 2 Not under consideration

Enable each dashboard creator to assign multiple Dashboard owners.

Original Request from the customer.------------------------- Enable each dashboard creator to assign multiple Dashboard owners. Question by IBM team.------------------------- Valid RBAC request. Have you seen our new SaaS reporting option? This is...
11 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Reporting 2 Planned for future release

The customer wants an alarm when the same test goes wrong on 2 different POP

The customer wants an alarm when the same test goes wrong on 2 different POP.
10 months ago in Instana / Synthetic 1 Not under consideration

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...
7 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 0 Future consideration

Request for Multi-Domain Compatibility for SharePoint Environments in Instana

Instana currently lacks support for monitoring SharePoint environments spread across multiple domains, which is essential for BWI’s infrastructure. BWI operates a complex, multi-domain SharePoint setup, and without this feature, they cannot captur...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Agent 0 Under review