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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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Monitor on message types

Hi, We have some requirements where instead of putting a certain message id to monitor. We monitor all *INQUIRY messages which has not been responded within a certain period of time. If an INQUIRY message is still waiting for a reply for more than...
about 1 month ago in Instana / IBM i 0 Submitted

Turbonomic Target for Riverbed NPM.

It will help with more management and visibility context on the supply chain
about 1 month ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Target Support 0 Submitted

Need an alert configuration for Instana License expiry

Hi Team, We would like to have an alert configuration to notify us on the license expiration. It will be helpful for us to renew the license on time. We request you to please consider this request into consideration.
about 1 month ago in Instana / Alert 1 Not under consideration

Enhancement Request: Ability to Set 'SHOW ALL' as Default for Rerun Instances

It would be beneficial to have a configurable option to set 'SHOW ALL' as the default view for rerun instances in the job workload monitor. Currently, the default is set to 'Show Only Last,' which requires manual adjustment each time users need to...
about 1 month ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

APIs needed for adding Tags and Zones for Instana agents

It will allow to do bulk tags and zones for a group of agents. We can of course use git based and Ansible but APIs are these days the easiest one to go for and if you provide swagger gui for APIs it will be even easier to manage. Since you are giv...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Automation 0 Submitted

Can we add the direct link to automation library on RNA

Adding a direct link towards RNA automation library updates site directly on the the Pliant integrations page ( https://automation-library.ibm.com/templates )
about 1 month ago in Rapid Network Automation 1 Future consideration

ADDITIONAL ABILITIES AROUND EMAILING INFORMATION OF ALERTS ON POLICIES

Today we are launching the SD-WAN PPM service. We have more and more customers who are keen to receiving breached alert information via email rather than tickets. We would like to have the option to have a TO and CC capability along with being abl...
4 months ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 3 Functionality already exists

Would like to have VMWare vCPU Shares (low, normal, high) as an attributes for filtering

To filtered down to VMs that has a certain vCPU shares settings. e.g. If all SQL VM should have "High" shares, we can quickly find if there is any SQL VM that has been misconfigured to have "low" or "normal" shares.
about 1 month ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / On-Premises (Hypervisor & Storage & Network) 0 Under review

save filter button in analytics page

In analytics page you can do filter on applications and all other metrics ad stuff but you cant create saved filter for common search criteria or very complex queries.you should create a save button as in infrastructure page.
about 1 month ago in Instana / Self Hosted 0 Planned for future release

Application - Smart Alerts - Select Services endpoints - with name reg expression

Within an enterprise environment, there will be hundreds of entities if not thousand. Secondary, entities can be created, deleted in an elastic process. Being able to add a entity.host.name contains "java-13", would allow for dynamic assignment wi...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Alert / Application perspectives 1 Functionality already exists