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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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Ability to self-monitor Instana REST API rate limits

A predefined dashboard that allows you to see the usage of Instana REST API for each API Token, to optimize the number of times or intervals of invoking the API to avoid reaching the rate limit quickly.
about 1 month ago in Instana / Common 0 Submitted

JDBC gateway supporting PostgreSQL database

GSMA accounts are requesting Netcool to integrate to PostgreSQL database. PostgreSQL also known as Postgres, is a free and open-source relational database management system. Many accounts are looking to integrate to postgressql. I see Netcool impa...
about 1 month ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review

Need to create an event when MQ Queue Status goes to Get Inhibited status

This is useful to the Production Support team, when the queue status goes to Get Inhibited status, the message flow cannot read the messages from the MQ queue.
3 months ago in Instana / MQ 0 Under review

Add Resources in Join Dependencies - IWA 10.1

Hello We are using IWA 10.1 and want to create JST using more than 40 resources. The composer add command returns the message AWSJOM138E The dependencies defined for job or job stream "******GVC010VERA" are incorrect because they would give a tota...
6 months ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

Maintenance windows to have Object Level Filtering

Use Case - A device is up and running, however a specific object is down for ‘maintenance’. It would be nice to be able to suppress Alerting for that specific object or group of objects. Example: Circuit maintenance on a router with more than one ...
about 1 year ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 3 Future consideration

Allow for the use of 12:xx to be used in time fields

Since moving to v10.1, we have noticed that the Workload Designer does not allow us to use the "twelve o'clock hour" in any of the time fields. This has been tested by our team at stream level as well as within a run cycle, on the earliest start t...
4 months ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

Ingest Turbonomic Topology

Ability to ingest infrastructure topology from Turbo would allow for a more granular/comprehensive view across our IT Ecosystem. This would lead to faster resolution of IT incidents.
9 months ago in AIOps Integrations 0 Under review

Application Perspective creation improvements

When creating/updating an AP following improvements are suggested: - A "notes" field writing in for which purpose this AP was created- A "tag" field in which tags can be entered manually which can be used in the AP overview to group by.
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 0 Future consideration

API token and API access like should be able to support customer approved central authority such as fedsso and LDAP

Current customer Security team required us to used LDAP/AD for any API access. currently we use File observer to send topology files using ASM username and password provided by NOI platform. We also doing metric manager integration configuration w...
about 1 month ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 1 Under review

Use Groups to schedule a Park action

The Park action currently only allows filtering by Name and Region/Tag, with Groups (turbonomic-settings) not being a selectable filter option at this time. Park using Groups would make more sense
about 1 month ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 0 Future consideration