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IBM Turbonomic ARM

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Would like a ROLE similar to Automator but with the ability to create Templates

Useful because then we won't have to assign the Administrator ROLE to an account used by an automation Service. Automator is missing the ability to create Templates.
8 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Authentication & Security 0 Future consideration

Postgress database Support for Turbonomic

Postgress database Support for Turbonomic
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / APM & Applications & Databases 1 Future consideration

Provide a warning when internal certificates are about to expire

Rather than being surprised when internal certificates have expired when on the CLI (which is rare and usually only when doing upgrades), gives us a heads up in the UI.
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 1 Planned for future release

Add Notification Center notifications to your workflow

I would like to be able to automatically post on Slack etc. when there is a Notification Center notification in the workflow. There may be situations where you cannot find a target on holidays or when you are not watching Turbonomic, so we would a...
9 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Custom Workflows 2 Planned for future release

Support rightsizing and mangling AWS Lambda functions

As clients are maturing in the cloud, we are noticing more services and application moving towards a server-less architecture. Identifying which configuration on Lambda is suitable based on the demand is challenging to customers, and each configur...
over 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud PaaS & DBaaS 4 Planned for future release

Report on Amortized Cost Per AWS Account

We need Turbonomic to report amortized costs per AWS to match what is being reported in CloudHealth (and ultimately what is being charged-back to Application owners).
9 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Billing & Costs & Discounts 0 Future consideration

Add an UNDO button for actions

Many times, users approve rightsizing of application VMs based on Turbo recommendations and realize as soon as it is completed that the change causes problems. The immediately request we "put it back" and we need to research the original configura...
over 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM 6 Not under consideration

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 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 0 Future consideration

Enable a manual override to stop failing actions in the queue

Currently if there is an issue with permissions or a policy conflict, actions that were manually executed will continue to retry (appears to be indefinitely?) There should be a way to cancel that action so that the logs aren't filled with one-time...

Allow a method to report on cost savings (lost/hidden) by policy

Allow a way to look at actions that would be generated by policy but that are excluded. Example: If I create a policy to generate no actions on a specific subscription, I would like to be able to see what the "potential" savings are that are hidde...
about 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 1 Not under consideration