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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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Trigger events from inactive subsystems regardless of the number of subsystems displayed by the active subsystems widget

The client has 63 subsystems that we cannot monitor because the Instana metric only shows the top 20 assets, which means that events are not generated when the subsystem is not among the 20 that Instana captures. The solution is for Instana to all...
about 1 month ago in Instana / IBM i 0 Under review

Integration with Chef

Potential customer is currently going through a PoV for Concert Workflows. They rely heavily on Chef for managing their On-Prem infrastructure. Asking if we can introduce a new integration with Chef for this evaluation. The Vendor in consideration...
19 days ago in Concert Workflows 1 Needs more information

Turbonomic's parking functionality issue for Auto Scaling Groups (ASGs) running Windows instances (non-Spot)

We are working with the ITAU customer who is experiencing performance issues with the parking functionality in Turbonomic for Auto Scaling Groups (ASGs) running Windows instances (non-Spot).The issue is that Turbonomic's current parking behavior t...
about 2 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud IaaS 0 Under review

Turbonomic - Spot VMs Parking Support

Itaú Bank operates a large number of Spot Instances in their DEV/QA environments. Previously, they used an AWS Lambda function to park both Spot and regular EC2 instances but we are now migrating this functionality to Turbonomic. However, the inab...
about 1 month ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / General/Other 0 Submitted

open multiple instances of a JazzSM DASH Page by calling sendPortletEvent(eventObject)

we have a so called template page in the system, containing widgets, which gets dynamically loaded via method sendPortletEvent(eventObject). The Payload is i.e: var eventObject = { name: 'http://ibm.com/isclite#launchPage' ,NavigationNode: 'com.ib...
26 days ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review

Start basic remote monitoring for detected unmonitored hosts

Capability to refine unmonitored services and be able to create an infrastructure representation of still unmonitored host (https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/1.0.302?topic=instana-monitoring-applications#the-unmonitored-infrastruct...
11 days ago in Instana / Tracing 0 Submitted

we need tsamp supported on redhat over OCI

we need tsamp supported on redhat over OCI We have a customer that use OCI and today and are migrating BPM platform from aix to OCI infrastructure.They use db2 and tsamp today.But we have problems to configure tsamp.
21 days ago in Tivoli System Automation 0 Submitted

Add an option to trigger Synthetic Monitoring alerts only when failures occur in multiple locations

Allow alert rules to require failures from at least X different locations within a set time window before triggering. This reduces false positives from localized issues, minimizes alert noise, and ensures alerts focus on problems likely to impact ...
8 days ago in Instana / Alert / Synthetic 0 Under review

Calculate Realized Savings using Effective Cost Basis

When we set the configuration of Cost Basis to use the Effective Cost (instead of on-demand), the Potential Savings are calculated based on Effective Cost, while the Realized Savings are calculated based on On-demand Cost. The consequence is that ...
19 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Billing & Costs & Discounts 0 Planned for future release

Container Platform Resize vCPU & vMem Reclaim Amounts

Similar to VMs in VMWare systems pending actions view show the Resize vCPU & cMEM Reclaim amounts, it would be useful to show similarly for Container Platforms same total Reclaim amounts when demonstrating the potential goodness of doing Conta...
5 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Container Platforms (K8s & OpenShift) 0 Under review