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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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SevOne Cisco ACI Solution should write ACI Faults to the Database for Baselining

Currently today the Cisco ACI solution is able to visualize the Fault Messages that are available from the APIC and the POD but is not written to the database. This means that users of the solution can see what is available in real time but can no...
7 months ago in SevOne / Software Defined Networking (SDN) 0 Future consideration

Make it a rightsizing preference option to allow changes to/from confidential SKUs

Currently the rightsizing engine does not provide the capability to control recommendations between confidential and non-confidential SKUs in Azure. I can't imagine many customers want to flip flop between the two types of SKU as Microsoft prices ...
22 days ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization 0 Future consideration

Add an "at least" option to go up to maximum when scaling up and down to minimum when scaling down

Today, Turbonomic calculates the desired sizing of a VM and then generates an action to go there. Currently if there's a minimum set in a policy, Turbonomic could just discard the action if the Desired State is below the minimum and then not resiz...
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM 0 Future consideration

Add support for recent versions of CA Spectrum (22.x) for the Netcool nco-p-ca-spectrum-corba probe

We (DOD / Defense Information Systems Agency) need to forward alerts from Spectrum CA to Netcool. The Spectrum version we are running is 22.2.8.0.13. Documentation for the Spectrum probe only indicates that it is supported through version 10.0.
over 1 year ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 2 Future consideration

Correct discovery of links in topology when mib ifstack is not enabled.

According to case TS016456788, the IBM engineering team reported that they need to investigate a way to discover topology links when the mib ifstack is not enabled on the equipment.
about 2 months ago in Tivoli Network Manager 0 Future consideration

Resource alerts in Topology

When looking at a resource in topology, we have a tab showing the resource's alerts. Unfortunately, we can only see a summary, severity and the last change. Seeing full details on the alarm, we have to switch to the Alerts Viewer. It would help a ...
about 2 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 1 Future consideration

IT Planning Undo Button

Our users have requested the ability to have an undo function available to them when making edits in the contract and labor tabs.  This would allow them to be able to revert any changes that were made incorrectly without having to remember th...
almost 2 years ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Future consideration

Validate deployment on Nutanix

Customers are looking at Nutanix as an alternative to Broadcom/VMware. This requrest is to support deploying SevOne NPM on Nutanix virtualization.
4 months ago in SevOne / Configuration and Administration 1 Future consideration

Instana agent not to monitor openshift "system" namespaces

At this moment instana agent when deployed on OpenShift kubernetes cluster reports monitoring issues for some (not all) of the openshift system apps deployed in system napespaces (namespaces that begin with openshift-* or kube-*). We do not want t...
3 months ago in Instana / Agent / Kubernetes 0 Future consideration

Turbonomic must provide the consistent logic as key summary(text explanation) to Admins for the recommendation action.

The image of "Turbonomic recommendation action" as attached is just an example. Turbonomic is recommending that the current AWS EC2 VM be changed from A type to B type for better resource utilization. However, we can not know why the recommendatio...
8 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Billing & Costs & Discounts 5 Future consideration