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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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Support to get metrics from Oracle Enterprise Management

Support to get metrics from Oracle Enterprise Management
7 months ago in Instana / Sensor 1 Future consideration

Allow for the use of 12:xx to be used in time fields

Since moving to v10.1, we have noticed that the Workload Designer does not allow us to use the "twelve o'clock hour" in any of the time fields. This has been tested by our team at stream level as well as within a run cycle, on the earliest start t...
4 months ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

Disable All Actions Switch under Global Default Policies must include Parking Actions. Currently does not.

People might assume that the Global Defaults Disable All Actions switch might work on Parking actions. And then during a cutover, machines would be turned off by accident causing massive disruption. EITHER this switch should INCLUDE parking action...
8 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 0 Future consideration

Show Parent Widget Name on Widget edit screen.

For example, if we would like to create a custom widget with "Workload Cost Breakdown" commodity which used on "Cloud Executive Dashboard", but finding "Workload Cost Breakdown" commodity from "Add Widget" function is not a easy task unfotunatelly...
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 0 Future consideration

Add list of groups to bottom of Details page

When viewing a virtual machine or database server the details page has a list of policies at the bottom of it so you can see what's applicable. It would be handy to also see a list of group memberships since all policies are tied to a group and it...
28 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / APM & Applications & Databases 0 Future consideration

Action Center/Actions tab doesn't allow sorting by unique system data

In both old and new UI the Actions page only allows sorting by generic Turbonomic columns such as Non-disruptive, Reversible, Action Category and Cost Impact. It does not allow sorting the list by Tier, Disk Size/Instance Type, IOPS, Cost, New Cos...
28 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 0 Future consideration

Out of box Dashboards don't display consistent timeframes

When viewing the Dashboards such as: Cloud Executive Dashboard, Action Impact & Savings, all the widgets are using different timeframes and manual drop-down also doesn't offer consistent time frame. Example 1: The slider bar at the top shows 2...
28 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Reporting 1 Future consideration

Track metadata on when a policy was created, modified and by who

Currently there is nowhere in the policy list to see who created it, when it was created, when it was modified or who the culprit is. This type of basic logging would be very useful when you have hundreds of people active in the tool at the same t...
28 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 1 Future consideration

Breakout list of user-defined policies into entity type to match the list provided in the group management UI

Current groups are broken out by VM, Account, DB, etc. In policies they are only grouped by imported, user defined, etc. Would be more useful to add sub sections by policy type: VM, Volume, etc.
28 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 0 Future consideration

Add description or summary field to Groups and Policy forms

Under the name allow for a short description to be added to explain why that particular group or policy needed to be created. This could then be displayed in the list of those object types for quick viewing. Example1: This group used to isolate th...
28 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 0 Future consideration