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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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Add Secret Manager

We requires password encryption to not be displayed directly in the yaml configuration file, they have the Secret Manager with Password Vault from BeyondTrust, which is not currently supported by Instana and is required to be used with Instana.
about 2 months ago in Instana / Integrations 0 Under review

In Turbonomic Segments view of Policies, allow sort/filter/group by Type (e.g. Host Merge, Storage Merge, Network Merge under Merges)

The one-layer depth to the Turbonomic Segments portion of policies makes for difficult searching and sorting. Adding additional filters at each of these pages would help reduce noise and improve ease of management. I have submitted similar ideas i...
20 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 0 Submitted

Allow use of VLAN ID for network matching for segmentation

Today, to verify a VM can live on another vCenter, Turbonomic checks the port group name to ensure match and that the same network is available at the destination. This idea is to match on the VLAN ID instead of the port group name string.
20 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / General/Other 0 Submitted

Enhancements needed to ServiceNow ticketing integration

The servicenow integration for ticketing needs to be able to populate Confiugration Item (CI). This is a required field in our environment and is used to define incident queue routing. Additionally, we should write to the staging table rather than...
14 days ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review

Request for Modification to "Parker" Role in Turbo SaaS

Reviewing the new "parker" role in Turbo SaaS and would like to request a modification. Our goal is to assign this role to a large number of users and make Turbo self-service for parking activities. Currently, the role allows users to create and u...
about 1 month ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Authentication & Security 7 Future consideration

Add end user facing documentation in v3 API IBM developer pages

With SOAP being deprecated already from the ongoing supported API access and the desire to retire API v2, we need to ensure end users/customers are able to efficiently use the v3 API and complete documentation is the key to this succeeding. Withou...
21 days ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 1 Functionality already exists

Add Alert Channels as scope option in Maintenance Windows

Context: Instana's Maintenance Windows feature offers, at the moment, either Application Perspective, Selected Entities (Dynamic Focus) or Synthetic Tests as scopes in order to generate silence windows. Problem: Maintenance Windows is the only fea...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Alert 1 Future consideration

Functionality to integrate with MAS (Maximo Application Suite) for IT to be able to create incidents, collect changes, etc

Raised on behalf of Telecom Egypt: "What we need is to have a functionality to integrate with MAS for IT to be able to create incidents, collect changes, etc. I took an example of what is already implemented in AIOPS which is “ServiceNow”, this is...
3 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 1 Under review

DLA - Cross-Domain - genmore option

The fix provided through the idea "Include the cross-domain topology in the ncp_dla exported file idea" (https://ideas.ibm.com/ideas/TNMGR-I-175 and case TS014214371) includes cross-domain links but does not support the genmore option. In the XML ...
9 days ago in Tivoli Network Manager 0

Support of one time import of CUR files etc. from AWS Billing Account

In large organisations, specifically in heavily regulated industries, integration from PoC or development environments to production accounts is not possible. The AWS billing account is main account and a production account. However, where turbono...
9 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Target Support 0 Under review