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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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Allow a way to Save As New a copy of an existing group, schedule or policy object

Allow for a group, policy, or schedule to be duplicated. Save As New. Keep all current settings allowing the user to first edit the one variable that needs to change and then save to create it. This would significantly speed up the scoping pre-wor...
3 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 0 Future consideration

Scaling Constraints could use more granular timeframe for observation period.

Currently the Minimum Observation Period max is 7 days. (you may need a couple weeks or month minimum to stabilize a workload). The Max Observation Period jumps from 30 days to 90 days. A happy medium in between like 45/60days would probably help ...
3 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 0 Future consideration

Group Creation - Reduce the list of filter values based on previous filter criteria already applied

When creating a group, a filter is added and list of workloads identified updates in real-time to show applicable systems fitting that filter criteria. However, when adding the next filter type such as Tags, i.e. Application, and clicking the drop...
3 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 0 Future consideration

Add Tag as a consistent search/filter option when looking at any list of resources

When in Workloads, Actions, or Search, add a filter type of Tag to allow for adhoc filtering a list down to a subset. This functionality exists in the group creation, but not anywhere else in the UI. Most common areas of need are Search, Workload,...
3 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 0 Future consideration

Enable a toggle feature to be able to execute actions in a more granular way for Database Server recommendations

Currently recommendations for RDS may have three distinct changes: Instance type, instance size, storage type. In cases where one or two of the recommendations don't make sense, allow a toggle to disable that recommendation (either on the action d...
3 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / APM & Applications & Databases 0 Future consideration

Add a duration metrics for activities inside business processes

When looking at activities of a bussines process I see a column with a "Duration" metrics. This metrics is not available to be selected like the "Latency" metrics in any charts. I would like to be able to select the "Duration" as a metrics under B...
3 months ago in Instana / Metric Store 2 Future consideration

Local User Activity, Password Policy Administration, & API Keys

Last Activity & Login Date: For local users, we'd like to be able to see the Last Used Activity and Last Login Date. Password Complexity Rules and Lifecycle Management: We need a mechanism to enforce our Company's password complexity rules, su...
6 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Authentication & Security 0 Future consideration

Allowing SNMP Trap Alerts to be related to the actual device

In many cases SNMP Trap based are sent by a single SNMP Trap Forwarder. The Genesys Call Center software, NICE Recording Software, and vmWare vCenter are classic examples of this. From a recurring failure point of view, it gives the impression tha...
9 months ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 1 Future consideration

Flow reporting should have the options to be more device agnostic and have more dynamic selection capabilities, other than the selection of filters that are done within the widget definition.

The ideal option would be a pop-up selection window (selecting something where the variables are currently placed). Provides options such as: 1. Select a client/server role and then select from a list such as a network segment or host grouping tha...
6 months ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) 0 Future consideration

Reflect host provision actions in the "Host Optimization Improvement" widget

In contrast to host suspension actions the "Host Optimization Improvement" widget does reflect host provisioning actions (see attached screenshot). According to engineering the reason is that the real-time market does not generate move actions bef...
3 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / On-Premises (Hypervisor & Storage & Network) 0 Future consideration