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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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Custom Agent installation path

This request is related to a missing option that allows to define a custom path for agent installation on both Windows and Linux. The need is to install the agent in a folder other than the default folder, for security compliance reasons.
7 months ago in Instana / Agent 1 Under review

Enable granular automation for databases

At current version, a Turbonomic admin can't choose the direction that a Database action can be executed. Even at Group creation, we don't have filters to pick just performance or Savings or if the Cost Impact is positive or negative (because some...
6 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM 0 Future consideration

Disable All Actions Switch under Global Default Policies must include Parking Actions. Currently does not.

People might assume that the Global Defaults Disable All Actions switch might work on Parking actions. And then during a cutover, machines would be turned off by accident causing massive disruption. EITHER this switch should INCLUDE parking action...
9 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 0 Future consideration

Turbonomic support for Red Hat Virtualization (RHV), KVM and OCPV

The current supported hypervisors targets are vCenter, PowerVM and Hyper-V, but not RHV, KVM and OCPV.
about 2 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / On-Premises (Hypervisor & Storage & Network) 1 Planned for future release

Implementation of Periodic Resynchronization Feature from Symphony Files to IWS DB or Addition of Synchronization Failure Detection Capability

In my team, an operational error occurred during job status checks in DWC. The root cause was the inability to confirm the latest job execution results in DWC for several hours. (This occurred due to the synchronization failure from Symphony fi...
9 months ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

Allow users to change the pre-defined severity of a built-in event and allow to change the related metric thresholds

There is a bunch of built-in events, but in some cases users won't agree with the severity level of the events or the selected metric thresholds. Please allow users to change these in built-in events. Seems like something that should have been pos...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Alert 2 Not under 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...
30 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 0 Future consideration

Simplified UI for Agent configuration

Many times Client find it difficult to edit configuration.yaml for agent configuration as this is huge file, indentation sensitive and not so user friendly. A more intuitive UI for making changes to agent configuration is requested through this idea.
30 days ago in Instana / Agent 0 Not under consideration

CPU scaling on vCPU not MHz

As I know Turbonomic is scaling vCPU based on the MHZ or GHz config of the underlying physical Host. The problem with this is that we have some virtual machine groups with „consistent resizing“ but Turbonomic has actions for one vm to increase vCP...
30 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / APM & Applications & Databases 0 Submitted

Exclude Local FileSystem from monitoring

Currently, there is only option to INCLUDE REMOTE filesystems to be monitored within Instana agent configuration file. Customer is looking for the option to EXCLUDE LOCAL filesystem from monitoring. They do have some filesystems which are nearly f...
30 days ago in Instana / Agent 2 Functionality already exists