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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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Host Agent to run without sudoers permission

We've gotten this request from a few customers that don't want processes running as root. The request is to provide support for the Host Agent to run as non-root user. The customer understands that they would be giving up some of the discovery cap...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Agent 3 Future consideration

The ability to execute pre and post scripts for parking VMs to make sure certain processes are up/down

We want the ability to run pre and post scripts to parking actions. these scripts can include commands to validate that certain processes are shutdown or have the script shut them down as well as make sure that certain processes are up when we pow...
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud IaaS 0 Not under consideration

Function to notify maintenance downtime in advance (SaaS Turbonomic)

As you can see in SaaS services such as Salesforce, if downtime occurs due to maintenance, it would be good to have a function that notifies us in advance. (For example, from about a week before maintenance, a notification screen will be displayed...
12 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / General/Other 1 Future consideration

Support Negative Filter Values For TopN Views

Some Indicators report values primarily in negative numbers; an example would be power expresssed in dBm. Currently, SevOne can only support positive values for TopN Filters, so creating a Filter like "Power dBm < -20 Decibel-milliwats" is not ...
5 months ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 0 Future consideration

Add metadata to events

It would be great if it was possible to add some data to the events we check in our tenant. At least, we would like to have the chance to add a long description with an explanation of the RCO, and a two-or-three length words custom label with a ca...
9 months ago in Instana / Alert 0 Future consideration

Alarm Grouping Strategy based on assigned weight to the alarms

Assign weights to alarms within each group. The alarm with the highest composite weight score in a group becomes the primary root cause candidate. Use key fields from this highest-weighted alarm (like resource type, component, error patterns) to c...
2 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review

Webagent Limit reset - High Business Urgency

We logged an IBM case: TS017640803 for missing data on our website monitoring (EUM). We discovered 2 things that need attention and IBM requested that we load an aha-idea for resetting limits on the webagent. Currently, there is a limit on the pag...
2 months ago in Instana / Real User Monitoring 0

Improvement of Display Contents for UNDO Tablespace Usage

The status of the extents in the UNDO tablespace is listed as follows on DBA_UNDO_EXTENTS (oracle.com) https://docs.oracle.com/cd/E16338_01/server.112/b56311/statviews_5078.htm: ACTIVE EXPIRED UNEXPIRED However, according to information from Oracl...
7 months ago in Instana / Metric Store 0 Future consideration

Require support for OAuth in Message Bus Probe when connecting to Azure

Support for Azure Secure Webhooks leveraging OAuth2 security with the Netcool Message Bus Probe. System:Integration of Message Bus with AzureActor: User requires Secure Webhook integration with Message Bus As our clients adopt more Cloud-native en...
over 4 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Planned for future release

Targets KPI Section in ITP - Multiyear view, add/custom columns, filter capabilities

Targets KPI Section in ITP - As Administrators, we would like to be able to view multiyear target data. Also, the feasibility to add columns in the Target plan and the ability to filter column data by year, region and cost center. Update** 1/10/25...
over 1 year ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Future consideration