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Policies

Enforce consistency across Automation Workflow Policy definitions

There is a lack of consistency across Policies when defining Automation workflows. For example, when creating a Database policy, there are four categories of workflow: Cloud DB scale (no toggle) Database suspend actions Database reconfiguration ac...
1 day ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies Submitted

New policy setting to control moveSucceedRecordExpiredSeconds

We want to be able let the client say "take actions more quickly in this cluster, or for these VMs." Currently, we can adjust moveSucceedRecordExpiredSeconds, but this is a global configuration option and only applies to on-prem Move actions. The ...
3 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies Submitted

Enforce Resource Configuration as Multiples of Increment Values in Container Specs Policies

I would like to submit an enhancement request for Turbonomic regarding policy settings for Container Specs. Currently, Turbonomic policies allow us to define: minimum configuration, maximum configuration, and increment steps. However, it would be ...
about 1 month ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies Submitted

Restrict Scoped Users from viewing and editing all parking policies

Currently today, a user can create parking policies for just their accounts, which is great But the user can also view and edit ALL existing parking policies, even ones that are not associated with their scope. When they go to edit one of the poli...
12 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies Submitted

Limit policy options to targeted infrastructure types

To reduce the complexity of Policy construction, reduce the available options to show ONLY the options for currently targeted infrastructure categories. Basically, if an instance does not target on-prem assets, don't show on-prem-related options d...
9 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies Submitted

Allow multi-entityType policies for Execution Mode & Schedules

Currently, Policies are restricted to a single entity type. If I want to set the Execution mode or attach a Schedule to a defined scope of resources, I must create a separate Group and Policy for each entity type. I understand the need to have dif...
9 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies Submitted

Allow customers to configure a "quiet period" following action execution

After an action is executed, enforce a policy-configurable "quiet period" during which additional action generation is suppressed. Customers find frequent action generation/execution too disruptive and would like to be able to suppress action gene...
9 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies Submitted

Enable Cloud VM scaling constraints based on Resource config rather than Instance type

As a Turbo admin, I'd like to be able to configure a Policy that restricts a group of VMs to Instance types with specific resource configurations. I don't want to select specific instance types, but rather specify configuration parameters, much li...
8 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies Submitted

Enable choose between savings/performance for Volume and Database policies

We can't choose at Volume or Database policies savings actions or performance actions. You need to execute everything or nothing. The customers sometimes choose to execute automatically only savings and vice versa.
about 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies Planned for future release

Create a parking policy for PMC users not to start any VM more than 7 days in park my cloud

To avoid more uptime of the VM which is underutilization. If need user can revisit and extend the pause of the VM after 7 days.
about 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies