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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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Oracle RAC sensors to gather the number of active instances of RAC

Current Oracle RAC sensor does not collect the number of "active" instances in the cluster. It does collect the total number of instances as configuration information, but you cannot know how many of them is currently active. This is an idea to co...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 0 Under review

Azure Services like Databricks, or AKS that create VMs should appear as a property in those VM entities.

With these properties being visible, Customer can create policies to exclude from policies VMs that are being managed by Azure Services. Customer can create UNPARKABLE collections based on Azure Services. Right now with 1000s of VMs, there is too ...
about 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud IaaS 3 Future consideration

Parking actions support for On-Prem VMs & DB resources

Enable Manual & AI driven Parking actions support for On-Prem VMs & DB resources
7 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / On-Premises (Hypervisor & Storage & Network) 3 Planned for future release

Add a way to be able quick filter NetFlow widget in DI

Not every user is comfortable with editing a widget to create a filter for a Flow widget. Would be great if there was a way to create a quick filter from the main report. For example, for view is Top Applications; provide a way to filter applicati...
9 months ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) 5 Planned for future release

Parking runs into problems when VMs are too close to the Quota Limit

Business Case: Customer shut down 5 Azure VMs - and tried to turn them on in the morning - only 4 did- because the quota for that VM was exhausted. The Customer had to half the size of the machine - then it could start up. What would be REALLY goo...
28 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud IaaS 1 Submitted

Parking should have better notification. More than just an error message in the Executed actions widget

The customer is using Parking to suspend and bring up scores of machines. They need to know quickly and easily if machines are NOT suspending and/or starting up. Can we get notifications displayed in the Parking Modules. This will make it easier f...
28 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud IaaS 2 Submitted

dns name configurable

Instana standard editon need DNS entries with subdomains. https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=cluster-preparing All entries points to the same ip. We want to have it configurable for free for example to remove the subdo...
28 days ago in Instana / Infrastructure 0 Submitted

Request to extend the Fixpack download functionality via GetMQFix.jar for ITX and ITCAM Products

TS017232118 We are planning to build the automation solution to download the Fixpack for the ITX & ITCAM , the current automation download binary does not support these products , can you add the capability for the same . https://www.ibm.com/s...
28 days ago in Workload Automation 1 Not under consideration

Strengthening bus safety policies for clients with regulatory compliance

Customers in industries that are subject to regulatory review may comply with required security controls. This customer currently requires these security controls that are not implemented in OMNIBus: New passwords must not contain a sequence of th...
29 days ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review

Update the email address from stan@instana to instana@instana.com

The email stan@instana.com is not service account and conflict with a user named Stan in the organization.
about 2 months ago in Instana / Common 0 Submitted