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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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Monitor multiple MSSQL servers on a single host

Currently it is not possible to monitor more than one database instance on a server, it is only possible to monitor one. This is a restriction that makes it impossible to build a complete view of a service, losing end-to-end observability.
7 months ago in Instana / Sensor 1 Future consideration

Get skupper-router in the SaaS product to use a valid cert signed by a public CA for TLS transport during token exchange with on-prem appliance

Token exchange is failing through our transparent Internet proxies because an untrusted internal CA certificate from the skupper-router is being used for both TLS transport and mTLS. The untrusted cert is causing the connection to be reset by the ...
10 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / SaaS 0 Planned for future release

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

Linking Published Tables and Standard Tables

We sometimes need to reinject calculated data from the reporting layer back into Standard Tables (e.g. output of metrics OpEx YTD, Charge YTD). Examples: in BOIT, Client wants to apply a reallocation of a calculated YTD Charge of a given BU amongs...
10 months ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Data/Model Studio 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

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

The ability to integrate or move files to the secure cloud content management - Box, inc.

Our company uses Box as one of the primary ways to share files. In an effort to help automate report distribution to some of these customers, it would be nice to be able to use IWS to move files to Box. Since we already connect to the necessary se...
10 months ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

Policy Historical Helper: In the policy editor, add a feature that will help determine if the policy has the correct settings by using historical data.

It would help admins determine if the new policy or policy changes will catch the expected events. Otherwise, users would have to wait for future events to see if the policy had the desired results. In a separate tab in the Policy Editor, display ...
12 months ago in SevOne / Configuration and Administration 0 Planned for future release

Azure offer reservations for Azure CosmosDB. Can we see and recommend CosmosDB reservations please?

Azure offers 65% discounts on COSMOS - this can save the customer a lot of money if properly managed. Turbo could help the client make the right decisions. Rightsize FIRST - then Recommend COSMOS RI SECOND
12 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Billing & Costs & Discounts 0 Future consideration

More robust scheduling options for workflows

Please look into expanding the scheduling options for automation workflows and parking workflows. I think this would be extremely beneficial. Right now, I have a use case where we have certain servers that stay off until they are needed, such as c...
2 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / On-Premises (Hypervisor & Storage & Network) 1 Future consideration