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Allow constraints based on the $$ savings of an action

It's helpful to have a special workflow for actions that save more money, so they get a different automation-schedule or attention or priority. The Turbonomic 'Action Center' lets you filter actions by savings but doesn't start a new process. To m...
5 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 1 Future consideration

Add some sample workflows and documentation for Expect SSH Integration into the Automation Library

At this time, there is no good documentation or samples for the ExpectSSH integration. While it could be argued that it's not needed, it's very difficult for a user to know how to design a workflow that uses the ExpectSSH array format. Know that t...
about 2 months ago in Concert Workflows 0

Ignoring a proposed action for a certain period of time (hiding it from the Pending Action list for that period).

Turbonomic can generate many actions, but sometimes you may want to ignore a proposed action for a certain period of time after understanding its content. In such cases, it would be useful for operations if you could check the relevant action and ...
over 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 5 Planned for future release

Operational Recovery Cloud Archive (ORCA) Integration

API Reference: https://nasa.github.io/cumulus-orca/docs/developer/api#internal-reconcile-report-phantom-api-output
29 days ago in Concert Workflows 0 Planned for future release

Direct action scheduling - Allow actions to be directly scheduled instead of needing to associate entity to policy and policy to schedule.

Allow actions to be directly scheduled instead of needing to associate entity to policy and policy to schedule. Direct scheduling should override any execution schedule at policy level until the action has been successfully executed. This would al...
2 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 0 Future consideration

Turbonomic Policy engine provides easy way for set affinity to newer generations of instance types when considering same size so tool does not suggest de-modernizing from db.8g.4xl to db.6g.4xl

Newer cloud Provider instance types may have price/performance benefits that customers are seeking. Customersmay have a policy and practice of running newer instance types (database, virtual machines, ...). It would be helpful if the Turbonomic po...
4 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 0 Future consideration

Turbonomic (Cloud) integration with Microsoft Azure Client/Custom Policies

We define policies in Microsoft Azure to provide subscription management for Virtual Machine size limitations. Turbonomic cannot currently read custom Azure policy and will therefore recommend, and attempt, to resize certain VM sizes. These Turbon...
almost 3 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 2 Future consideration

Workloads at Kirkland being seasonal, max observation period is needed to be 180 days

Kirkland would like to set the max observation period to 180 days from current max allowable 90 days.
5 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 0 Planned for future release

Auto-detect and exclude Hosts dedicated for maintenance/operational vacancy

Telefónica intentionally has some empty hosts, without load, exclusively to move load there during update/maintenance/obsolescence tasks. It is not a fixed rule, but it is usually one free host for every 8 or 9 hosts. This Telefónica's policy is a...
9 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 2 Future consideration

Rename "Rate of Resize" options

At the policies, we have in some of them the option of "Rate of Resize" with three options: 1, 2 and 3. The problem is the customer is looking at these numbers as the multiplier to the increments and not the level itself. We should rename to a bet...
about 2 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 0 Not under consideration