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IBM Turbonomic ARM

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Call Alter

We would like the ability to restrict the default level of access for users of Turbonomic, particularly Site Administrators. Before a user can manually execute action of modify a policy, we would like to require that the user receive temporary acc...
4 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Authentication & Security 0 Future consideration

Update kubernetes certificate when an instance is upgraded (OVA only issue)

I recently had an issue with a large financial customer where I made a license change and it caused the instance to show that none of the targets were validated any longer. After some troubleshooting, I found a certificate had expired. We worked w...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Authentication & Security 9 Not under consideration

Add "180 /365 days" and/or "any number of days" for Max Observation Period

Requests:.1.Add 180 days and 365 days to max observation period2.Make it possible to set any number of days for max observation period (e.g. 14 days, 60 days, etc.) Background:.Japanese customers often have stable system environments and request l...
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 1 Not under consideration

Ideas for more consumable actions

After initial deployment, it may take many Turbonomic actions to bring the existing environment to a more desired state. As a new user to Turbonomic it can be hard to digest and consume those actions and understand where to start. Some ideas to he...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM 1 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...
2 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 0 Future consideration

Add support for multiple SaaS Clients connecting to SaaS instance

Today, one can only connect one SaaS Client to a Turbo SaaS instance. But there are examples where customers have multiple datacenters that do not have network connectivity between them. Because of this, they need a SaaS Client in each datacenter ...
10 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / SaaS 0 Planned for future release

Stop count licenses for unsupported workloads

We have some workloads in Turbonomic that is not supported, like AWS Spot Instances and GCP Custom VMs. We still read and bring those workloads, but count them as a license consumption. We should not count them until fully GA of the feature and pr...
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / General/Other 0 Not under consideration

Provide user notification of unsupported cloud instance type

As CSPs release new instance types and the customer deploys them to their environment before Turbo has implemented support, notify the user of the unsupported instance types. This will ensure that the user knows that action generation is suppresse...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud IaaS 4 Future consideration

Allow more than one "Report Editor"

Currently, you can only add the "Report Editor" permission to one single user in the User Management panel of the UI. If you try to add more than one, you get an error message stating "* There is already a Report Editor. Designating another one ma...
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Reporting 0 Planned for future release

Get Turbonomic Recommendations for AWS Lambda

As customers advance in cloud usage, there's a shift towards server-less setups for both services and apps. Picking the correct Lambda setting based on needs is tricky, with each choice having its cost implications. It would me more useful if Turb...
2 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Custom Workflows 0 Under review