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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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Requirements for Maintenance Windows(MW) Scheduling - Alert Suppression Request using web link or REST API call using programming and not just using Watson Maintenance windows

Requirements for Maintenance Windows(MW) Scheduling. In order of priority: Need an API for integrations Our Centralized Dashboard should have a way to set Maintenance Windows’s Users should be able to click a link in an incident ticket to disable/...
over 1 year ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Planned for future release

Turbonomic Targets and General Configurations as YAML

I have recently experienced issues at a customer that rotates credentials, api keys or access keys to endpoints or targets and have failed to update Turbo automatically because it is not baked into any operational process. Now the first thing that...
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / General/Other 1 Not under consideration

Validate Symphony file prior distribution

We have recently experienced several issues during the IWS new plan load. Most likely related to Job Streams into ADD status. In order to prevent such impacts for many clients we do support (+40 Global Clients) we'd like to suggest a new process w...
about 3 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Not under consideration

Provide improved Details panel for Cisco Stacked Switches

Improve the Details panel for Cisco Stacked Switches, so Switch information is buried below the physical frames. Support case TS001215656 has the entire history of the issue.
about 6 years ago in Tivoli Application Dependency Discovery Manager 2 Future consideration

Node state shows as “Active” in Turbonomic Console even when a Node is marked as “unschedulable” in OpenShift

When draining a NODE OpenShift Kubernetes, and un-schedulable in OpenShift, Turbonomic console shows the node as "Active". There is no way to know if a NODE is un-schedulable or cordoned. Similar to VCenter where a Host is in maintenance mode it s...
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Container Platforms (K8s & OpenShift) 3 Functionality already exists

POD Placement: Error Details insufficient for "Failed to start action... due to error"

Failed POD moves do not say why the Failed to start action ended in an error and what that error is. A long number is shown with in not informative. Can you link the number to a meaning and present that in the error output?
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Container Platforms (K8s & OpenShift) 1 Is a defect

add AWS resource ID to report column options

I am trying to correlate the scaling recommendations in turbonomics to an AWS cost report, and I can't find a good field to join on (the aws report doesn't have instance name). if the turbonomic report had the instanceID, that would do it for me
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Reporting 0 Not under consideration

Netcool MessageBus password encryption

Within the MessageBus gateway (and probably probe) configs at $OMNIHOME/java/conf require passwords to be included like in KafkaClient.properties but does not allow those passwords to be encrypted, only the gateway.props can be. We need to be able...
over 4 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 1 Not under consideration

Support AWS Lambda Telemetry API

Are there any efforts to use the AWS Lambda Telemetry API ? Many of the competitors already support this feature. Why not Instana ? Couldn't this lead a way to autotracing Lambda ?
over 1 year ago in Instana / Tracing 0 Planned for future release

Requesting visibility of NICs under windows teaming

When viewing Windows server with NIC teaming, sometimes it is necessary to know what ports and NIC cards are represented by the single logical connection.
almost 8 years ago in Tivoli Application Dependency Discovery Manager 2 Not under consideration