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UI & User Experience

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User-friendly message for unauthorized users

Today, when user is not authorized (i.e.: not part of any External Group in Turbo), Turbo displays a 500 server error: 500 Server Error: "{"type":500,"exception":"com.vmturbo.auth.api.authorization.AuthorizationException: Unable to authorize the u...
about 2 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 0 Future consideration

Add top level cloud provider filter to the Action Center Global Environment UI

Currently when starting at the Action Center Global Environment, you have to click on Scale/Volume or Resize/App Component, etc and then select which cloud provider you are interested in. This must be replicated for each level down in the Actions ...
about 2 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 0 Future consideration

easier Turbo Instance SSL certificate import - no manual edit of the YAML file

right now customers have to edit the yaml file with VI and a big cert file - loads of mistakes are made - and it's complex. and they need the right number of spaces - like 12 14 16. Vmware Vsphere client has an easy .cer file import process - this...
6 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 0 Future consideration

From a VM object at VM level, see all groups it's a part of

I have a VM that I'm trying to test policies on. It is also part of another policy that has a very large subset of scoped vms, named with a sequence of letters and numbers. It's not easy to determine which group it is in, and remove it from that g...
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 0 Future consideration

Allow navigation to groups directly from the groups management page

As a user while I am managing groups I would like the ability to navigate to a group so that I don't have to click Search->Groups->Type the Group name->Then select the group
about 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 3 Future consideration

Add group selection/filter to Overview and Actions pages

Use Case 1: When going to a list of actions, there are filters available. Add the ability to select an existing group name from the drop-down to see a subset of resource actions. Or Use Case 2: When going to the Overview page, there is a tab for W...
2 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 0 Future consideration

Action Center/Actions tab doesn't allow sorting by unique system data

In both old and new UI the Actions page only allows sorting by generic Turbonomic columns such as Non-disruptive, Reversible, Action Category and Cost Impact. It does not allow sorting the list by Tier, Disk Size/Instance Type, IOPS, Cost, New Cos...
2 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 0 Future consideration

When viewing a list of workloads, there is no way to sort or filter them. Specifically by status.

When viewing a list of workloads, you have to keep clicking More, More, More to get to the bottom of the list where Idle resources usually sit. Sort and filter options don't yield a viable way to display a subset of workloads (Active, Idle) or (Re...
2 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 0 Future consideration

Error alerting for mandatory field when populating any form

If a required field isn't filled out such as group/policy name or required field such as policy scope isn't selected. It doesn't direct the user towards the problem. Maybe a red highlight or prompt near the Submit button to point them as to what e...
2 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 0 Planned for future release

Group Creation - Reduce the list of filter values based on previous filter criteria already applied

When creating a group, a filter is added and list of workloads identified updates in real-time to show applicable systems fitting that filter criteria. However, when adding the next filter type such as Tags, i.e. Application, and clicking the drop...
2 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 0 Future consideration