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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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HMC Sensor - Add the HMC "release version" version to the product metrics

NOC agents must generate platform reports with the version to determine if there are changes. Currently, they cannot view through Instana UI and must contact the administrator of each HMC to obtain the version.
3 days ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Submitted

Add an extra pop up to the Execute Action button so it asks “Are you sure you want to perform actions?” to prevent executing actions by accident?

Is it possible that you can add an extra pop up to the Execute Action button so it asks “Are you sure you want to perform actions?” to prevent executing actions by accident? I was performing an action 2 days ago on an AWS account and I clicked on ...
3 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / SaaS 0 Submitted

Terraform support for Infrastructure Smart Alerts is needed

There is currently no terraform code available to creating Infrastructure Smart Alerts. This capability is missing but needed for a customer engagement.
5 days ago in Instana / API-C / Infrastructure 0 Submitted

Centralize Executed Actions between Turbonomic instances

If we want HA for any of the features that Turbonomic provides, our only option is to set up some sort of hot-warm configuration. With this configuration, actions are generated and performed locally only. If failovers have occurred in the past, it...
10 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / APM & Applications & Databases 1 Submitted

Update the NMS to allow customer defined VPC endpoints for AWS Monitoring

To gather monitoring metrics, the SevOne AWS plugin utilizes a set of unknown (to the user) AWS endpoints published by Amazon, and subject to change. https://ip-ranges.amazonaws.com/ip-ranges.json SevOne documentation requires only an outbound 443...
17 days ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 1 Under review

Enhancements needed to ServiceNow ticketing integration

The servicenow integration for ticketing needs to be able to populate Confiugration Item (CI). This is a required field in our environment and is used to define incident queue routing. Additionally, we should write to the staging table rather than...
6 days ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Submitted

Prevent merge policies to be automatically deleted when one scoped member of the policy (host, network, storage, etc) is deleted or removed.

When creating merge policies, if for example, a cluster merge policy contains hostCluster1, hostCluster2 and hostCluster3, and one of those hostCluster is removed from vCenter or from Turbo, the merge police gets automatically deleted, so the cust...
11 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 0 Submitted

Support Kafka Protobuf integration in Message Bus probe

Activating this type of integration will allow our clients to continue incorporating the latest technology equipment into their event and alarm management platforms, which positions the product in a better way compared to the competition in the ma...
2 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review

Business Monitoring: adding a limited access to the user of a group for particular business processes

The customer Iveco wants that some users can see some business processes and other users can see other business processed. More or less we sould have a "limited acess" radio button in the group configuration like the application perspective.
about 1 month ago in Instana / Access Control 1 Planned for future release

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...
4 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 0 Submitted