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

I would like to be able to create policies with someone other than "Site Administrator".

Many systems are already managed by one Turbonomic, but we want to leave policy management to individual system administrators. (a specific non-administrator user on turbonomic who only has limited group acess but able to create new automation pol...
8 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 0 Future consideration

Change vm uptime over more than a week

When someone is working with Turbonomic, inside action > Buy > Reserved instance we are only able to see the widget "VM UPTIME OVER A TYPICAL WEEK". That seems like all the buy reservations actions were based on a week study. We would like t...
8 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 0 Future consideration

Showing P90, P95, P99 actions all at the same time.

Showing P90, P95, P99 actions all at the same time. If showing for all VM is too hard due to resource perspective, it is ok to run as "Plan" basis and show the result in a screen.
8 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Planning 2 Future consideration

Request for Modification to "Parker" Role in Turbo SaaS

Reviewing the new "parker" role in Turbo SaaS and would like to request a modification. Our goal is to assign this role to a large number of users and make Turbo self-service for parking activities. Currently, the role allows users to create and u...
about 2 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Authentication & Security 7 Future consideration

Reset Baseline on entire device history

Currently you are limited to resetting the baseline for the past week to correct abnormalities that may have had happen in the past week. There are times when new services are turned up or processes are changed so a device will deviate from its st...
12 days ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 0 Future consideration

Add Alert Channels as scope option in Maintenance Windows

Context: Instana's Maintenance Windows feature offers, at the moment, either Application Perspective, Selected Entities (Dynamic Focus) or Synthetic Tests as scopes in order to generate silence windows. Problem: Maintenance Windows is the only fea...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Alert 1 Future consideration

It would be desirable if multiple currencies could be handled by one Turbonomic

Currently, only one currency symbol can be set, so if AWS (USD) and Azure (Yen) are mixed, it will be confusing. Each time, we create a group just for AWS and refer to that dashboard, which is cumbersome.
8 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Billing & Costs & Discounts 1 Future consideration

Databricks support for Turbonomic

One of my clients requested to know references for resource optimization gains in Databricks solutions using Turbonomic.When researching, I found that at least two other large clients in Brazil made the same request. Is it possible to include Data...
6 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / General/Other 0 Future consideration

Add priorityclassname to autotracewebhook helm chart

We have a highly dynamic environment and would like to ensure that cluster wide operators are available before customer workloads. The current helm chart for the autotracewebhook lacks the ability to set a priorityclassname in the deployment (http...
13 days ago in Instana / Tracing 0 Future consideration