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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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Log window output enhancements

Would find it very convenient to be able to close all non-executing (stopped) log tabs with one button. Right now I have to click many times to close all the older tabs. e.g., "close all"
2 months ago in Rapid Network Automation 0 Under review

Add conditional breakpoints (eval functions)

Would be good to add possibility for conditional breakpoints, where you say "stop here if x == false". Perhaps a breakpoint block with an eval function that is only enabled when debug. Perhaps looking like an "if block". The "breakpoint" block wou...
2 months ago in Rapid Network Automation 1 Under review

Improve try catch to reduce number of required blocks.

Currenty when using try/catch blocks, you almost always need 4 blocks. "Try"... "block to execute" ... "catch" ... "if block to check exception". I think the improvement might be to merge the catch/if by making the catch block have fields to simul...
2 months ago in Rapid Network Automation 1 Under review

Allow for admin or users to hide integrations for users by default

Add feature request to hide uncommon or unused integrations from the left navigation bar. Generally an organization will probably only use a handful of integrations. Perhaps have an option to unhide temporarily.
2 months ago in Rapid Network Automation 1 Needs more information

Allow step into when debugging workflow

Currenty when debugging workflows, you can resume, start over, stop and step. The possibility for stepping into another function is missing. This feature is key to allow workflow reuse.
2 months ago in Rapid Network Automation 2 Under review

Message Bus Probe: token with kafka topic name in rulesfile

Today it is possible to add multiple topics for a given probe installation. However, there is no token available in the rulesfile to check from which topic a given message came from. This means, if I have a common kafka server with topics that req...
over 3 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

Stop count licenses for unsupported workloads

We have some workloads in Turbonomic that is not supported, like AWS Spot Instances and GCP Custom VMs. We still read and bring those workloads, but count them as a license consumption. We should not count them until fully GA of the feature and pr...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / General/Other 0 Not under consideration

Mute or Silent specific service alert to exclude specific Node/Cluster from the filter

Mute/Silent alerts for Particular node or cluster which is making lot of noise. Please refer case ID TS016989752 for the same.
2 months ago in Instana / Alert 1 Functionality already exists

For cloud policies, enable filtering of instance types by instance type value

For cloud policies, enable filtering of instance types by instance type value. For example, I would like to create a policy that restricts a group of VMs to stay within a certain architecture type such as V5. This is important in some cases based ...
7 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 1 Not under consideration

Automatic Snapshot Removal

Snapshots are often taken and forgotten in the environment. They cause both unwanted storage use and performance issue to VMs if left around too long. Would like to be able to create an automation to remove\consolidate snapshots for groups based o...
about 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM 3 Planned for future release