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Policies

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allow using groups based on virtual machines as a scope for volume policies

at the moment, volume policies are only configurable by resource group. we want machines that in lots of different resource groups to be in scope for a policy
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 1 Not under consideration

Prevent merge policies to be automatically deleted when one scoped member of the policy (host, network, storage, etc) is deleted or removed.

When creating merge policies, if for example, a cluster merge policy contains hostCluster1, hostCluster2 and hostCluster3, and one of those hostCluster is removed from vCenter or from Turbo, the merge police gets automatically deleted, so the cust...
2 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 0 Submitted

Create an Account level policy entity type

When accounts have many different resource entity types, it's very cumbersome to create a generic policy for half a dozen resource types across dozens of accounts. If there was an Account policy type, high-level settings such as Action Generation:...
3 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 0 Submitted

Track metadata on when a policy was created, modified and by who

Currently there is nowhere in the policy list to see who created it, when it was created, when it was modified or who the culprit is. This type of basic logging would be very useful when you have hundreds of people active in the tool at the same t...
8 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 0 Submitted

Breakout list of user-defined policies into entity type to match the list provided in the group management UI

Current groups are broken out by VM, Account, DB, etc. In policies they are only grouped by imported, user defined, etc. Would be more useful to add sub sections by policy type: VM, Volume, etc.
8 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 0 Submitted

Consistent sizing option for volumes

In the case where a multi node SQL cluster is hosted on EC2s, and all the drives on each node in the cluster need to mirror their peers, there is only an option to enforce consistent sizing on the VM policy. However the volumes on the same nodes a...
8 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 0 Submitted

Add description or summary field to Groups and Policy forms

Under the name allow for a short description to be added to explain why that particular group or policy needed to be created. This could then be displayed in the list of those object types for quick viewing. Example1: This group used to isolate th...
8 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 0 Submitted

Allow a way to Save As New a copy of an existing group, schedule or policy object

Allow for a group, policy, or schedule to be duplicated. Save As New. Keep all current settings allowing the user to first edit the one variable that needs to change and then save to create it. This would significantly speed up the scoping pre-wor...
8 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 0 Submitted

Provide a way to disable side car action creation

Today, Turbonomic create automatically groups for sidecar workloads and a policy with recommend only actions. Since Turbonomic can't apply those changes, it's just informational. The problem is customer has thousands of actions that is polluting t...
12 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 0 Submitted

When a script is part of a resize policy the vCPU & vMEM actions are executed together.

Execution of pending actions are completed immediately instead of backing off or executing separately extending the change window. Fewer number of reboots to complete pending actions including vMEM, vCPU, socket matching compliance. Script complet...
about 2 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 0 Future consideration