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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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Extend the support of NGINX monitoring and tracing for Red Hat Linux OS platform

Currently Red hat Linux OS does not supported for monitoring and tracing NGINX . Using NGINX on Red Hat OS is widely used in our bank .
4 months ago in Instana / Sensor / Tracing 2 Future consideration

Increase Device inventory report raw limit more than 1000.

We have to schedule the device inventory report but facing following challenges . 1. NMS device inventory report limited to export 1000 raw ( devices ). 2. Metadata report from DI doesnt have the default fields like Device Availability which is a ...
12 months ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 0 Future consideration

Use the same "Warning" logic , when we delete a Jobstream Object , IWS will alert the user if the jobstream is used in other Jobstreams as a dependency ogic

If you DELETE a "JOB" object from the IWS database and it is included in other Jobstreams , IWS will alert/Stop the delete command because its cross referenced in other Jobstreams. If we DELETE a "CPU" object , again IWS will alert/Stop the User f...
over 1 year ago in Workload Automation 1 Future consideration

Department Filter Sorted by Department ID rather than Department Name

Currently Department Filter is filtered by Department Name rather than Department ID.  This can be confusing when searching for Departments, especially if user is used to work with IDs rather than Names.  The option to choose if Depart...
over 1 year ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Future consideration

Data Insight - Support multiple owners for Reports RBAC

Currently Reports RBAC includes Public and RO permission (across all users.) A business issue arises when a Public RO (Production) Report needs to be modified while the (single) Owner is not available. This forces an admin user to manually make a ...
8 months ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) 0 Future consideration

Add support for Hitachi Vantara

Hitachi is one of the popular storage vendor widely used across enterprises and currently there is no target integration available.
8 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Target Support 2 Future consideration

Tabs to Export in Excel the Same as displayed in Apptio

When exporting a report from Apptio to Excel, it is requested that tabs in the report keep the same display name as displayed in Apptio, to streamline analysis for stakeholders. 
8 months ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Data/Model Studio 0 Future consideration

HMC Sensor - Add the HMC "release version" version to the product metrics

NOC agents must generate platform reports with the version to determine if there are changes. Currently, they cannot view through Instana UI and must contact the administrator of each HMC to obtain the version.
4 months ago in Instana / Sensor 1 Future consideration

Need ability to combine different entities in one threshold

Dear colleagues, our customer monitors several situations with Tivoli Monitoring that can't be replicated in Instana . They're considering for transition to Instana, so they're interested in implementation of the analogs to what they use in ITM. B...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Future consideration

User-friendly message for unauthorized users

Today, when user is not authorized (i.e.: not part of any External Group in Turbo), Turbo displays a 500 server error: 500 Server Error: "{"type":500,"exception":"com.vmturbo.auth.api.authorization.AuthorizationException: Unable to authorize the u...
4 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 0 Future consideration