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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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Allow insert limit in Park override

Today if a user override a parket VM, they can choose between a end date or a number of hours. But someone with bad intentions can override for 1 year or 999 hours for instance. The admin should have a way to put limit on each override, like 2 hou...
1 day ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 0 Submitted

Smart Alert - grouping/summary/templates

A function of other APMs that I've used is the concepts of summaries and group alert copy or alert templates. Summaries - In cases, when memory, CPU and or filesystems alert they do so together which is a single event. With a summary structure, wh...
1 day ago in Instana / Infrastructure 0 Submitted

Smart alerts should have a severity placeholder

With build " 1.282.1064" the smart alerts got a very useful ability to have warning and critical thresholds defined on a single smart alert. This was a welcomed change and reduce our planned alert set by half. However, we were also expecting to be...
1 day ago in Instana / Infrastructure 0 Submitted

Expansions of Infrastructure Smart Alerts

Decouple the smart alert title with the subject of the resulting email. Currently with the title and subject line being the same, the display for smart alerts shows the placeholders which have no real meaning in the context of smart alert listings.
1 day ago in Instana / Infrastructure 0 Submitted

Insana Alerting - JS errors based on error rate while using multiple filter conditions

We are trying to do alerting for JS errors based on error rate as the metric is available within alerting scope, but it's not working as expected. When applying different filter expressions within our JS alerting scope, the error rate metric isn't...
1 day ago in Instana / Alert 0 Submitted

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...
2 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...
2 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud IaaS 2 Submitted

Update NetBox OSS integration

Update NetBox OSS REST API integration, the current NetBox integration is several year old and missing many APIs. https://demo.netbox.dev/api/schema/swagger-ui/
2 days ago in Rapid Network Automation 0 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...
2 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...
3 days ago in Workload Automation 1 Not under consideration