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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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Prevent merge policies to be automatically deleted when one scoped member of the policy (host, network, storage, etc) is deleted or removed.

When creating merge policies, if for example, a cluster merge policy contains hostCluster1, hostCluster2 and hostCluster3, and one of those hostCluster is removed from vCenter or from Turbo, the merge police gets automatically deleted, so the cust...
3 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 0

Use "Alias" naming convention to replace "Account Name" for AWS data

For AWS data, use Alias feature to display account name. Customer would like to leverage this Apptio. Is there a way for Apptio to leverage the “alias” name instead of the actual Account name. The AWS portals display the “alias” name itself.
27 days ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization 0 Submitted

syslog - 8 level(s) of notification - Customizing the SevOne alert levels for the 8 levels of Syslog Message.

When a syslog message is received by SevOne, we decide what color alert it gets. Currently there are default 8 levels of Syslog. Can those 8 colors be customized per NMS cluster instance? Like make it a whole new setting under "Cluster" > "clus...
27 days ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 3 Under review

Azure default configuration.yaml and documentation is very misleading

When looking at the default configuration.yaml for Azure and looking at the documentation, it is very misleading. And, it does not follow standard documentation principals. It causes confusion and causes customers to specify invalid configurations...
27 days ago in Instana / Azure 0 Submitted

Add Concert integration

Please add the IBM Concert integration to the automation library. This will allow us to start developing templates for the joint operation between the two products. Here is the Swagger: https://developer.ibm.com/apis/catalog/PRODUCT--concert--ibm-...
27 days ago in Rapid Network Automation 1 Functionality already exists

update the Workload Improvements Charts to include what a workload is.

Customers want to track licenses - and often think they can use the workload chart to do so - but they cannot. A separate Idea for Enhancement will be added today. If the documentation was updated to include the following - it would add clarity. A...
3 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Documentation 1 Needs more information

Place holder for "offline" Event types

We have created alert based on "Offline" event, if a service goes down. But we need to insert a "place holder" so that it shows us what is the service which went offline in subject line or heading. This will help us identifying quickly what servic...
3 months ago in Instana / Application perspectives 1 Functionality already exists

Export of custom dashboards in global export

Hello,Can you add the export of custom dashboards and datasources in the global export in the DWC.
7 months ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

Add on new basic messaging protocol "MQTT" to NMS.

IOT is growing in the IT infrastructure monitoring and the end customer will hope he can consolidation monitor over all. MQTT is growing to IOT standard protocol and the other brands NMS have been added MQTT in their protocol. For example: Zabbix....
about 1 year ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 2 Future consideration

Add "Cluster Tags" to VM group creation

Currently there is not a way to create VM groups based on its cluster tag. This feature would provide a great way to create dynamic groups based on something we can extract from vCenter from other use cases. For example, say I have a supercluster ...
5 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 1 Future consideration