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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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Compatibility of ECDSA format public keys to be complaint with banking federal standards

Currently Datalink is supporting ssh-rsa format. To be more complaint on security standards ECDSA format is being preferred, so the ask is to support public keys of format ECDSA. The new acceptable key algorithms are Key Type: ECDSA Auth Key Algo:...
4 days ago in Apptio / Data Connectivity (Datalink) 0 Submitted

ITP to CT - Publish to a specific month

When users are able to publish to a current month in ITP, there is no need for a DL's process to copy the published data from January of the current year to the current month of the current year to maintain actuals.
4 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Submitted

remedial for non-compliant interfaces

A compliance policy was created to assess interface configuration of specific trunk interfaces, but no remedial can be created to address non-compliant interfaces and make the device configuration compliant.
5 days ago in Tivoli Netcool Configuration Manager 0 Submitted

Request for FortiGate Firewall Monitoring in Instana

We’d like to monitor our FortiGate firewall (version 7.4.7) with Instana, but we couldn’t find anything in the documentation about native support for FortiGate or firewall monitoring in general. Our firewall is a key part of our infrastructure, so...
5 days ago in Instana / Agent 0 Submitted

A way to calculate cumulative cost/usage over a period of time using calculated metrics

A simple use case is to track commitments with vendor which normally is yearly based on cumulative usage, we should be able to show it in a chart with target line and cost/usage metric showing cumulative values for the time period selected
5 days ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 0 Submitted

API to programmatically set default dashboard and view for users based on roles

We currently have to go to the Users and Groups page to reset default dashboard and view for users manually. There should be an API to be set this programatically based on the user roles.
5 days ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 0 Future consideration

Allow granularity to Disable Profiles

BackgroundWe recently created a dedicated group to manage and restrict access to infrastructure-related information. This group has been granted access only to specific application perspectives and selected websites, ensuring that sensitive infras...
16 days ago in Instana / Access Control 2 Functionality already exists

Allow Multiple Metadata Fields in Device/Object Group Membership Rule

As we are using Metadata fields to store device or object extra static data, we are facing challenge of only one metadata field can be used in Device/Object Group Membership Rule. Sometimes we can get by creating multiple rules to mimic 'OR' multi...
about 2 months ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 0 Future consideration

Request for Enhancement in Apptio BI Reporting Based on CFP Plan

We would like the ability in Apptio BI to create a calculated metric—similar to what is available in the CFP plan—that combines Year-to-Date (YTD) actuals with forecast data. For example, if we are in June, the YTD cost calculation should include ...
about 1 month ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 0 Under review

I would like to request a policy change so that a new version number is assigned to the Instana agent with each BootStrap release.

There are cases where the version number of the Instana agent does not change even though the BootStrap included in the Instana agent has been updated. Because of this, when a bug is detected in BootStrap, it becomes impossible to identify which v...
18 days ago in Instana / Agent 0 Submitted