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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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Device driver for Checkpoint gateway, Model 4800

We are requesting driver support for the Checkpoint gateway, Model 4800 because current driver package does not support this device type.Software version on these devices is: Check point gateway and management server: R80.10
about 6 years ago in Tivoli Netcool Configuration Manager 2 Not under consideration

Make MAXDUR/MINDUR available in Job History as are latest start and DEADLINE already present

It is not possible to report on jobs that have exceeded their MAXDUR setting nor those that did not meet their MINDUR setting as this information is not recorded in the TWS database. This request is to include the amount of time the job exceeded t...
about 10 years ago in Workload Automation 3 Not under consideration

More granular approach to Scheduling permissions in ParkMyCloud

All would benefit This would allow PMC Admins the ability to provide Team Leads and Team members with more scheduling flexibility while still maintaining limits no IaaS uptime How this could work: Currently in ParkMyCloud, there is a single checkb...
about 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 1 Not under consideration

Enhances Schedule Permissions and Schedule Visibility

Useful for all: Anyone can use and benefit from this Large scale implementations benefit: ParkMyCloud users and team leads in larger organizations would benefit most How it would work: 1: There needs to be a concept of Enterprise Schedules , Team ...
about 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 1 Future consideration

Manual seeding option is not available

As of now we dont have the option of manually adding the devices into INM and it is not supported. With the current design this option is only available to ping based discovery. Adding the Ad-hoc device is not possible so can you guys add this fun...
about 2 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

Onboarding requires ICMP response

For onboarding any new device in to the infrastructure it needs to have proper ICMP response, without that the servers cannot be onboarded. As per IBM, in file based discovery the device might be pollable even when ICMP is not working. In our curr...
about 2 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

Device gets automatically deleted after 3 retries if not pingable/SNMP pollable

When a device gets added to the list and by chance if the server is not pingable / SNMP pollable then as per the current design the device gets deleted from the list automatically. There are instances where the servers might be in DMZ and they mig...
about 2 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 1 Future consideration

Maintenance Mode to send notification when CI is put into Maintenance Mode

When a user creates a Maintenance Schedule we don't have any option of notifying the user on whether the schedule is created successfully or not. Currently there is no notification for either creating / after the schedule ends.
about 2 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

Bearer authentication for IWS

On the Manage Data sources, there is anew feature where allow multiple REST API to be consumed. Although only offers basic authentication.
about 4 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Planned for future release

Include CPU Provisioned figures in the Alleviate Pressure plan

When running the Alleviate Pressure plan in Turbonomic it does not include CPU Provisioned in the output fields. For both the Cluster Merge and Optimization plans this figure is present. This would be helpful to display the pressure release in a c...
about 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 0 Future consideration