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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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Find a way to store historical vm data after cross-vcenter vmotion

Application and capacity teams would like to have important historical information, which get lost on cross vcenter vmotions. This is a hurdle to really adopting superclustering throughout our environment.
over 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / On-Premises (Hypervisor & Storage & Network) 0 Planned for future release

Add support for vSAN Witness host

Implementing vSAN Stretched Clusters in a VMware vSphere environment requires setting up a witness host storing all meta data but hosting no VMs and acting as a quorum in a split brain situation (see https://core.vmware.com/resource/vsan-stretched...
11 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / On-Premises (Hypervisor & Storage & Network) 0 Future consideration

Need API call to run the already configured NFVD load jobs

Its needed by the client to perform LCM takeover during regression testing
11 months ago in Infrastructure Automation 0 Needs more information

Enhance Peregrine Gateway to accept a Change Number when the Ticket Number is not available.

Peregrine Gateway not updating Omnibus events in some cases. We have integration between Netcool/Omnibus and HPSM as described here: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/SSSHTQ/hpscgw-pdf.pdf Whenever we send some event from Omnibus to HPSM through Peregri...
11 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

Adding Connection metrics in IBM MQ Channel while creating Instana Events

Connection metric should be included while defining event for IBM MQ Channel. Giving the user privilege to define event to monitor connections made to a channel.
11 months ago in Instana / Metric Store 0 Future consideration

Use the more secure Azure Managed Identity instead of SAS token when authenticating SevOne DataBus (SDB) against a Kafka enabled Event Hub

Currently, our SevOne DataBus (SDB) feed is sending to an Azure Event Hub as the Kafka Consumer endpoint. Authentication relies on a SAS token (SharedAccessKey). The use of SAS tokens as an authentication mechanism is proved to be less secure, and...
11 months ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 0 Future consideration

Lock only the contracts tab

Customer would like the ability to only lock the contracts tab and not the entire plan 
almost 2 years ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Future consideration

NMS Device Grouping by Product OID/Device Type

A device post discovery is always defined as a particular device type, such as F5, Cisco ASA, etc. Device Group Membership rules should allow for the ability to use Device Type as a means of membership. Currently I am forced to define what the OID...
almost 2 years ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 3 Future consideration

Updates on the WMI Plugin

The WMI Plugin is quite outdated at this point. Additionally managing the mapping of devices to WMI Proxies is a nightmare, as it can only be done through the API. Additionally, WMI Proxies are set on a per device basis. Ideally I'd like the abili...
almost 2 years ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 0 Future consideration

Disk Trends - Ability to aggregate all disk usage trends into an aggregated single metric

Today, if we look at an AIX host within Instana, all it shows in the prebuilt view are insights from individual file systems in terms of disk I/O. What is missing is an aggregated view that combines all the disk I/O together on the host like is cu...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Planned for future release