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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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Need VM and Volume group filter for entity criticality (for both on-prem and cloud)

Need VM and Volume group filter for entity criticality (for both on-prem and cloud) to be able to send only actions for certain groups of VMs and Volumes that are for performance to ServiceNow during a certain time frame and other actions that are...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 3 Not under consideration

When viewing a VM / Pod the user should have access to a terminal for access / running commands

When scoping to a VM / Pod we show actions that can be performed on the entities. However, some customers would also like to do some sort of independent debugging. If we have a terminal in the UI we can allow for the user to stay within Turbonomic...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 0 Not under consideration

Make MAXDUR/MINDUR available in Job History as are latest start and DEADLINE already present

It is not possible to report on jobs that have exceeded their MAXDUR setting nor those that did not meet their MINDUR setting as this information is not recorded in the TWS database. This request is to include the amount of time the job exceeded t...
almost 10 years ago in Workload Automation 3 Not under consideration

(NPI) Ability to modify Traffic Volume Trend graph to view bandwidth by interface/circuit

Would like the ability to modify the Traffic Volume Trend graph to view the bandwidth used based on a specific interface and/or circuit, by percentage of bandwidth used (i.e. 0-100%).
almost 4 years ago in Cloud Pak for Network Automation / Performance 1 Not under consideration

Agent configuration file should support more alternative solutions to hide clear text passwords than HashiCorp Vault.

Security teams in enterprise customers are not approving passwords to be stored in clear text format in agent configuration yaml file. According to the current documentation of Instana, only solution provided to this issue is HashiCorp Vault (http...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Tracing 4 Not under consideration

Check the supplied hostname format before starting the install process.

When standing up a new Turbo VM from the OVA there is an option to run the ./t8c.sh script and pass a -h modifier followed by the desired host name of the VM - so it is not named the default node1. If a hostname is supplied with an improper format...
about 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / General/Other 1 Not under consideration

Create operand to delete operators when uninstalling MCM v2.0.0

When uninstalling MCM v2.0.0 the user should have the ability to use an out-of-the-box operand to uninstall all of the operators MCM v2.0.0 creates. It is tedious to delete every operator when an install goes wrong.
about 4 years ago in Cloud Pak for Multicloud Management Ideas 0 Not under consideration

Using Kustomize to Simplify Client Configuration

Kustomize is a declarative management tool that allows users to create different variants or configurations of a base yaml. A tool like this can assist our clients configure our product during the installation process.
about 4 years ago in Cloud Pak for Multicloud Management Ideas 0 Not under consideration

Expose PHP FPM connectionResets metric

Currently it is not possible to add a custom event based on the connectionResets FPM metric. This would be important to us as the limits set by the default "Too many connections reset" FPM event are too low and we would like to customize it.
about 2 years ago in Instana / PHP 1 Not under consideration

In the Alleviate Pressure Plan the for the cold clusters the sorting order should be reversed to put green clusters at the top.

When utilizing the Alleviate Pressure Plan first a hot cluster is selected which is either a red, yellow, or orange cluster - which are sorted to the top for easy selection. On the next selection to select a cold cluster the sort order is the same...
about 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Planning 2 Not under consideration