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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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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

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...
10 months ago in Instana / Alert 0 Future consideration

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

Enable monitoring user for PostgreSQL database of CP4AIOps NOI hybrid application - monitor using Instana

As per IBM support & Neil Boyette's request, raising this as a feature request. Initially had opened this under Support case TS017890340. For more information, check this internal discussion in AIOps channel: https://ibm-cloud.slack.com/archiv...
2 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review

Add support for 'operSt: ok' response from APIC for SevOne SDN solution

It has been found that the 'operSt' indicator from a Cisco APIC will at times respond with a string "ok", like so: "operSt": "ok", Currently, the SDN product will mark this response with a '0' as it aligns with 'unknown' "unknown": 0, "down": 1, "...
2 months ago in SevOne / Software Defined Networking (SDN) 1 Under review

"Limited access" users should be able to use "Analyze Infrastructure"

When you want to set the permission of Infrastructure of a group with "limited access", you cannot set "Analyze Infrastructure" permission to ON. It means that "limited access" users cannot use "Analyze Infrastructure" features today. I assume tha...
2 months ago in Instana / Access Control / Infrastructure 1

Turbo does not support SQL database scaling actions between vCore and DTU pricing models

Turbonomics can scale up/down existing tiers but cannot change the service tier (vCore to DTU) or provision an elastic pool. Existing customer would like to use it now. Could this be considered to be an enhancement to address this limitation?
2 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / APM & Applications & Databases 0 Under review

Clearly identify Cloud vs On-prem specific policy settings to avoid customer confusion

Clearly identify Cloud vs On-prem specific policy settings Turbonomic is showing both cloud and on-prem policy settings when cloud VMs settings are ignored (cloud VMs settings should not appear to avoid customer confusion) For customers that have ...
over 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud IaaS 1 Future consideration

Gateway for Message Bus (XML) should support replication of secondary tables

The gateway and probe for message bus is getting more and more important on all customer sites to receive alerts and to transfer ObjectServer data to external customer systems. Most customer implementations contain secondary tables which hold diff...
almost 3 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 3 Future consideration

monitoring multiple vCenters from a single Agent

Per documentation (www.ibm.com/docs/en/obi/... you can deploy the agent on the vCenter itself or any agent of choice (linux/windows) on a remote system - the vCenter sensor is able to perform remote monitoring if installation on the vCenter is not...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Sensor 1 Not under consideration