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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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Access Point White/Blacklist for the WLCCollector config.

Similar to how we can disable aggregations and stations in the config files for WLCCollector, we could make a new flag for AP_WL (Access Point Whitelist) and AP_BL_ALL (Access Point Blacklist All). Some great integrations we could do is with AP_WL...
8 months ago in SevOne / Enterprise Wireless (WIFI) 0 Future consideration

Need to enhance the AIX / LPAR monitoring as the basic monitoring is not sufficient to understand the performance problems.

After speaking to the IBM Power Sales team, existing AIX metrices are not sufficient even when enhanced with the IBM pHMC sensor metrices. The customers are relying on the vmstat/iostat/nmon commands to extract reports and do manual work of assess...
8 months ago in Instana / IBM Power / Sensor 2 Future consideration

Turbonomic (Cloud) integration with Microsoft Azure Client/Custom Policies

We define policies in Microsoft Azure to provide subscription management for Virtual Machine size limitations. Turbonomic cannot currently read custom Azure policy and will therefore recommend, and attempt, to resize certain VM sizes. These Turbon...
about 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 1 Future consideration

add DBA_TABLESPACE_USAGE_METRICS to custom polling Oracle

this is usefull as 1 sec graularity for DBA_TABLESPACE_USAGE_METRICS will rise license issue in ORACLE. To add DBA_TABLESPACE_USAGE_METRICS to custom polling ensure customer not to breach ORA license as Instana Agent Remote login and read tablespa...
10 months ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Planned for future release

Collect, process & report Azure NSG/VNET flow logs

SevOne DNC already collects and process flows from different endpoints. With addition of Azure to this list will allow SevOne to be positioned uniquely for being single source of truth for both on-prem as well as Cloud networks.
about 1 year ago in SevOne / Dedicated NetFlow Collector (DNC) 0 Future consideration

Make authentications availability and location more flexible. For example, credentials for within body of request.

"Make authentications available for use within the body of or as parameters for the request. Some integrations and usecases like CURL or HTTPRequest I was looking to pass the credentials as a part of the body. Perhaps you set an authentication for...
3 months ago in Rapid Network Automation 2 Needs more information

Add an extra pop up to the Execute Action button so it asks “Are you sure you want to perform actions?” to prevent executing actions by accident?

Is it possible that you can add an extra pop up to the Execute Action button so it asks “Are you sure you want to perform actions?” to prevent executing actions by accident? I was performing an action 2 days ago on an AWS account and I clicked on ...
3 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / SaaS 1

Monitor multiple MSSQL servers on a single host

Currently it is not possible to monitor more than one database instance on a server, it is only possible to monitor one. This is a restriction that makes it impossible to build a complete view of a service, losing end-to-end observability.
4 months ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 0 Under review

Dollar value for on-prem scaling - just like Cloud. Each action has a saving/cost to it.

The customer would like Turbo to put a price tag on each action. They want to be able to tell how much adding vMem or vCPU or a combo. to a VMware VM costs. The customer is aware that it depends on a bunch of things (cost/hr of host, cost/hr of da...
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / On-Premises (Hypervisor & Storage & Network) 2 Planned for future release

Topology mapping of devices per OSPF areas

For troubleshooting purposes, we need ability to restrict displayed devices to specific OSPF areas. Currently, Resource type filter allows topology items but only for Object groups, not Device groups.
about 1 year ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) 2 Future consideration