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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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LDAP integration - automatic retrieve list of users and groups

It would be a useful feature that Instana, after the integration with LDAP, would automatically retrieve all users and groups from the LDAP according to the filter given in the LDAP configuration. This way administration of new users would be m...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Access Control 5 Functionality already exists

Host Agent to run without sudoers permission

We've gotten this request from a few customers that don't want processes running as root. The request is to provide support for the Host Agent to run as non-root user. The customer understands that they would be giving up some of the discovery cap...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Agent 3 Future consideration

Pre-flight data volume measurements for all AIOps connectors

We need the ability to connect to data sources and run a pre-flight check on how much data will be generated by the connection. It is difficult to guess how much data will be generated up front without actually connecting to the data source and se...
4 months ago in AIOps Integrations 0 Under review

Please version KubeTurbo helm chart in Chart.yaml when the Helm chart changes

Whenever the Helm chart changes for KubeTurbo, please also update the version number in the associated Chart.yaml file. The Helm chart for deploying KubeTurbo is here: https://github.com/turbonomic/kubeturbo/tree/master/deploy/kubeturbo We are wor...
4 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Container Platforms (K8s & OpenShift) 2 Planned for future release

No tags for empty vm specs

When we export App service plan Delete actions, We noticed that tags not appear, they're not there and would love to see them included. They only appear to be missing in Delete actions for VM spec.
8 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Reporting 0 Future consideration

Capability to add freeform text and snap to grid on Network View

Looking for capability to add freeform text in network view for some additional information on Network View , also capability to snap to grid on placement of object in network view.
over 3 years ago in Tivoli Network Manager 2

We are looking for the oAuth authentication at ObjectServer level. Refer the IBM Case for the same request TS016022219

As per our company standards, we need to have the oAuth authentication
4 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

increase scope and usage visibility of Azure VM Reserved Instances

Currently Turbo recommends VI purchases at an Account/Subscription level. (it can also narrow in on Billing Families and Regions). Azure permits RIs to be limited to Enterprise, Management Group (that’s a collection of Subscriptions), Subscription...
10 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Billing & Costs & Discounts 0 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.
4 months ago in Instana / ACE/IIB / Sensor 2 Future consideration

Generic Configuration-based SDK

Generic Configuration-based SDK When working with the Configuration-based SDK, customer wants to use each class-method pair under "sdk.targets" in a generic way, not individually. To summarize, Instead of this one: sdk: targets: - match: type: cla...
8 months ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 3 Planned for future release