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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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add a security option to manage host for x-agent or pool

Hello, Security ask us to separate each application from one to another. That means that an admin A can create job on server x but it cannot create job for a server y under responsability of admin B Currently we used x-agent to manage workstation ...
7 months ago in Workload Automation 1 Future consideration

Working hours also on Flow widget

Hi, we are in POC with HCL and they would like to have "working hours" setting also to work with flow widget. At the moment it works with "performance" widget but when we try to add flow widget to the report we cannot see working hours reflected i...
6 months ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) 0 Future consideration

Performance tuning for XML gateway for reading events from alerts.status and publising the same to different Servers.

This is the integrated part of Netcool Architecture and is available, but delay is observed, while sending the details to Humio or any 3rd party system. In out cases, we are sending the same to Humio Server and delay is observed, sometimes the del...
4 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 1 Planned for future release

The ability to execute pre and post scripts for parking VMs to make sure certain processes are up/down

We want the ability to run pre and post scripts to parking actions. these scripts can include commands to validate that certain processes are shutdown or have the script shut them down as well as make sure that certain processes are up when we pow...
about 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud IaaS 0 Future consideration

DB and K8 Certificate Monitoring for OVA Deployments - on-Premise

Insight into when DB is filling and when K8 Certificates Expire. Today there are no warnings when this happens
about 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / General/Other 1 Not under consideration

Clearly indicate policy hierarchy in the UI

As a user I would like the ability to understand the hierarchy overrides for policy settings, so I can have accurate expectations about the outcome of applying a policy.
almost 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 0 Planned for future release

Remove requirement to set Automation level on every Volume policy

Currently, with VM policies, you can add or ignore every variable in the policy menu. By this i mean that i can have a policy blocking instance types, and i don't have to also select Manual or Automatic. I can leave that section blank and allow ot...
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 2 Future consideration

enable the ingestion of Azure SQL Managed Instances

Turbonomic currently ingests some Azure SQL PaaS, but not all. SQL Managed Instances are a class that should be included.

Use service name instead of host IP to reach instana agent from monitored applications in K8s

Dear colleagues Tanzu k8s cluster have strict security rules that block communication between podNetwork and hostNetwork IP addresses. The effect of it is inability or significant reduce in flexibility to trace applications like JVM based. Solutio...
8 months ago in Instana / Agent 1 Under review

We need an alternative to the Hashicorp vault

I continue to run into more customers that demand a vault other than Hashicorp as a way to securely store credentials for the configuration.yaml file. Previously, I opened this idea, but it was rejected: https://ideas.ibm.com/ideas/INSTANA-I-271 I...
6 months ago in Instana / Agent 0 Needs more information