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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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From a VM object at VM level, see all groups it's a part of

I have a VM that I'm trying to test policies on. It is also part of another policy that has a very large subset of scoped vms, named with a sequence of letters and numbers. It's not easy to determine which group it is in, and remove it from that g...
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 0 Future consideration

Working hours also on Flow widget

Hi, we are in POC with HCL and they would like to have "working hours" setting also to work with flow widget. At the moment it works with "performance" widget but when we try to add flow widget to the report we cannot see working hours reflected i...
7 months ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) 2 Future consideration

Modify Turbonomic recommendations / actions before I approve them

When I negotiate a lesser reduction with an App owner, I would like to modify Turbo’s recommendation and still have Turbo perform the action. Having Turbonomic perform the action is advantageous because Turbo can then report that the action was ta...
over 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM 1 Not under consideration

increase scope and usage visibility of Azure VM Reserved Instances

Currently Turbo recommends VI purchases at an Account/Subscription level. (it can also narrow in on Billing Families and Regions). Azure permits RIs to be limited to Enterprise, Management Group (that’s a collection of Subscriptions), Subscription...
12 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Billing & Costs & Discounts 0 Future consideration

Add "180 /365 days" and/or "any number of days" for Max Observation Period

Requests:.1.Add 180 days and 365 days to max observation period2.Make it possible to set any number of days for max observation period (e.g. 14 days, 60 days, etc.) Background:.Japanese customers often have stable system environments and request l...
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 1 Not under consideration

IBM Tivoli Monitoring (Webstart Client) should support OpenJDK

Currently IBM Tivoli Monitoring (SP12/13) Webstart Client only supports Java 1.8. It should support OpenJDK in future releases.To superseed Java 1.8 by OpenJDK is a strategic issue in our company. BR Andrea
about 2 years ago in ITM/IBM APM 2 Not under consideration

Ability to copy the entirety of an SQL query identified as truncated in INSTANA

SQL queries that are too long appear truncated in the INSTANA traces. However, for the analysis of resource-intensive queries. it is often important to access the entire query to clearly identify it. In my case, the "where" clauses of the problema...
5 months ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 0 Future consideration

We need an alternative to the Hashicorp vault

I continue to run into more customers that demand a vault other than Hashicorp as a way to securely store credentials for the configuration.yaml file. Previously, I opened this idea, but it was rejected: https://ideas.ibm.com/ideas/INSTANA-I-271 I...
7 months ago in Instana / Agent 0 Needs more information

Allow for file encryption keys to be provided by the customer and utilized in encryption of data at rest in the platform

Allow for customers of Turbonomic / ParkMyCloud to encrypt their data at rest in the platform by exposing an Azure KeyVault that Turbo can reach out to and connect/pull down rotating encryption keys. This allows the customer to maintain control of...
10 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Authentication & Security 2 Not under consideration

Extend Topology Manager to be able to run Remote Observers for network discovery

With the introduction of Net-Disco and App-Disco plug-ins in ASM v1.1.8 (https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SS9LQB_1.1.8/ProductOverview/r_asm_whatsnew.html#r_asm_whatsnew) , its not possible to run all components on single host as it wou...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 3 Future consideration