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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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new feature requests that are specific to BFD in NMS

Bidirectional Forwarding Detection (BFD) is a fast fault detection mechanism based on RFC 5880. After a BFD session is established between two systems. We want to monitor the status of the bfd protocol configured on cisco devices through sevone. C...
4 months ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 1 Future consideration

It's better to have the percent memory utilized for a process (e.g., Integration Server process in IBM ACE)

We want to capture the percentage memory utilized for any integration server process. This will help in identifying the max. memory used process so that support team can take appropriate action on that process.
7 months ago in Instana / ACE/IIB / Sensor 2 Future consideration

Excel import with dynamic worksheet names

Currently, there are two options for designating which worksheet should be loaded in the import step: No name specified and first worksheet is loaded A fixed worksheet name is specified and cannot be changed It would be amazing to add an option ...
over 1 year ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Data/Model Studio 0 Future consideration

Search in Event viewer under 'IBM_Cloud_Analytics' doesn't search for the element if within correlated group

When we search in the Event viewer 'IBM_Cloud_Analytics' view, the search doesn't work. If the element is part of a correlated group, search doesn't work to identify the group or element. We have to then default the view and search on the flat vie...
over 1 year ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

bring in ANY GCP metric into Instana

Want the ability to bring in ANY GCP metric into Instana. Some of our competitors have solutions that have out of the box dashboards for specific GCP services. But, they also provide the ability to specify a configuration to bring in metrics from ...
7 months ago in Instana / Sensor 2 Future consideration

verify IIS credential on agent setup or show missing credential in agent log

When Installing and running agent on a Windows host hosting IIS, the agent seems read the content of the application pool and site with the local admin right.if local admin rights is removed from the user that run the app pool Instana wont be able...
7 months ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Future consideration

Allow insert limit in Park override

Today if a user override a parket VM, they can choose between a end date or a number of hours. But someone with bad intentions can override for 1 year or 999 hours for instance. The admin should have a way to put limit on each override, like 2 hou...
4 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 0 Future consideration

Dynamic navigation option from a table - links to specific reports depending on table row contents

Looking for a way of providing user dynamic and tailorable navigation to specific use case reports from a single source.  In this case to get to use cases for specific Service Names in the service taxonomy - potentially a report per Service N...
almost 2 years ago in Apptio / Apptio Essentials Portfolio 0 Future consideration

Exclude target category that has no associated rows from the Target Type Filter

In Target Configuration page, it seems we have all target categories included in the target type filter. For Azure, the target type shall be Azure Service Principal, or Azure Subscription. So when selecting Azure, there is no result returned. Disc...
11 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 0 Future consideration

Parking should have better notification. More than just an error message in the Executed actions widget

The customer is using Parking to suspend and bring up scores of machines. They need to know quickly and easily if machines are NOT suspending and/or starting up. Can we get notifications displayed in the Parking Modules. This will make it easier f...
4 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud IaaS 2 Future consideration