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IBM Turbonomic ARM

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Add the ability to click out of an "x-able" box by clicking in a greyed out part of the window

It'd be nice ux for you to be able to click in any of the grey areas and it'll close out the window you had open. the x still exists as another option to click out of a config window. if there are changes when a user clicks out of the window, then...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 2 Not under consideration

Documentation on the policies created dynamically

We don't have documentation on policies Turbonomic creates on the fly based on the target environment configuration/setttings e.g. ASG, compliance policies, k8s env policies etc. Can we have this documented to understand whats learnt from each env...
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Documentation 0 Future consideration

AWS EMR Cluster Support and handling

Turbo does not inherently recognize this particular type of device (EMR Cluster) as a “special handling” instance; in effect it sees a list of instances that can be optimized. Without scaling these devices concurrently/consistently, the cluster wi...
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Target Support 1 Future consideration

Support for Public Cloud(AWS, Azure, GCP) via Private Link connection.

Turbonomic connects to publicly exposed API endpoints of each cloud provider (AWS, Azure, GCP) to obtain information on each cloud and optimize IT resources.Major Japanese users who operate mission-critical systems in the cloud often connect secur...
about 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud IaaS 0 Not under consideration

Manage Move Automation on a non-VM level

Turbo WPA is a competitor to VMware's DRS capabilities. Considering most customers ofTurbo are virtualized with VMware, we/they need a way to handle WPA on a cluster level, instead of having to create a group of VMs based on cluster resourcing as ...
about 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 0 Planned for future release

Monitoring and Alerting of Turbo-XL instances

Hi Team, We have turbo instances running across both production and non production environments in OpenShift infra, however we do not have a monitoring enabled for them. Considering we need to be alerted incase of any issue we would like to know h...
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Custom Workflows 1

configure RBAC on dashboards so that groups of people can edit/manage/view

The RBAC model isn't very mature, and if someone is an owner of a dashboard, only they can edit it. what happens if a change is needed when someone is away?Being able to group dashboards would also help with usability
about 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 3 Not under consideration

Add support for nested groups when using Active Directory authentication

Turbonomic currently does not support nested AD groups – AD logins must be for users in a top-level group. In complex customer environment netest groups are the standard so that the customer cannot use AD groups. Please add support for nested grou...
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Authentication & Security 1 Not under consideration

Allow configuration of Turbonomic to only discover specified license types from Flexera

As a user I would like the ability to only discover specified license types from Flexera, in order to reduce the impact on my Flexera and reduce the scope of licenses managed by Turbonomic.
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Custom Workflows 0 Planned for future release

Turbo should not recommend Disk Size changes for Azure HyperScale DBs - they autoscale.

bad actions reduce faith in the product and waste time. This is distracting the customer for really good actions - like HyperScale scaling.
9 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / APM & Applications & Databases 0 Planned for future release