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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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All pages that have a graph and filtering radio buttons should also filter the included data table below the graph

In an enterprise environment, focusing on the critical issues is the primary use case driver of using an APM. As such, being able to quickly, and easily sort and order issues is critical. On the various event graphs there is a radio button to hide...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Common 0 Under review

event that is triggered in case the oracledb sensor user is locked

If user is locked, no oracleDB metrics are available.
about 1 month ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Under review

Message bus probe support for NFMP/NSP release 24.X

soon we will upgrade NFMP/NSP to version 24.X. can you validate the probe message bus will support all new releases NFMP/NSP 24.X
about 1 month ago in Tivoli Netcool Configuration Manager 0 Submitted

Lower the size of the .ova hard drive

When importing the .ova the machine disk is 1,75Tib. Even if all this space is not used up thanks to thin provisioning, it is still a bad practice to over-provision that much storage. In our case the thinning of the space is done on the storage ba...
about 1 month ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / General/Other 1 Not under consideration

As a user I would like to push Kafka topics to multiple brokers/consumers, so that I can use built-in SaaS reporting as well as provide the data for internal BI teams

Please see attached for details for consideration. It would provide great benefit to be able to utilize kafka connectors to asynchronously push data to other consumers rather than the current 1:1 producer:consumer to data explorer today.
7 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Custom Workflows 1 Future consideration

Provide integration with CyberArk and/or gMSA into SQL Probe for password access/management/key rotation.

Provide integration with CyberArk and/or gMSA into SQL Probe for password access/management/key rotation.in organizations where security is paramount (which is the majority of companies now) it is a security threat to have Service Accounts where i...
7 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Authentication & Security 1 Future consideration

Maintenance windows to have Object Level Filtering

Use Case - A device is up and running, however a specific object is down for ‘maintenance’. It would be nice to be able to suppress Alerting for that specific object or group of objects. Example: Circuit maintenance on a router with more than one ...
over 1 year ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 3 Future consideration

Add support for multiple billing accounts per cloud provider

We are trying to add 2 AWS master billing accounts to Turbo and found out that Turbo does not support that configuration. We are also trying to add 2 Azure EA's and that is not supported either. We need Turbo to support multiple billing accounts p...
over 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Target Support 2 Planned for future release

Extend Turbo's parking/suspending capabilities to on-premises VMs

Extend Turbo's parking/suspending functionality to VMs in vmware/hyper-v enviornments. For all the same reasons Turbo supports parking VMs in the cloud, Turbo should extend this functionality to on-prem workloads. By turning off idle resources, Tu...

Custom Agent installation path

This request is related to a missing option that allows to define a custom path for agent installation on both Windows and Linux. The need is to install the agent in a folder other than the default folder, for security compliance reasons.
9 months ago in Instana / Agent 2 Not under consideration