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IBM Turbonomic ARM

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Integrate the capability to connect to a vault to get target credentials

In many different organizations, the security teams are more and more pushing the use of vaults to store system accounts or system to system credentials. Turbonomic is connecting to many different infrastructure management systems like the Cloud A...
10 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Target Support 0 Future consideration

Add the Hours Idle field to VMs

The customer, HCSC, desires to create policies on cloud VMs based on how many hours they have been idle. Currently, IBM Turbonomic only supports the Hours Idle parameter for PaaS Synapse databases.
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM 1 Future consideration

Having real names against usernames

Minor thing .. when creating a user on the appliance, any chance extra fields for that users real name, department and contact details ?
7 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 1 Future consideration

Azure Savings Plan commitment planning

I would like to have the ability to create plans for Azure Savings Plan commitments based on my current workloads not covered by reserved instances that are running hourly pay go rates.
7 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Planning 0 Not under consideration

"Entity Information" widget should be sorted alphabetically

This widget has grown a lot over the years and for some objects now runs off the screen. As it does not seem to be sorted alphabetically, it can be difficult to navigate and does not provide a good user experience
7 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 1 Planned for future release

Integrate certificate import / update ability in to UI

It would be useful to be able to upload new certificates for update purposes when they expire, vs having to go through a multi step process in the CLI
11 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 0 Future consideration

Local User Activity, Password Policy Administration, & API Keys

Last Activity & Login Date: For local users, we'd like to be able to see the Last Used Activity and Last Login Date. Password Complexity Rules and Lifecycle Management: We need a mechanism to enforce our Company's password complexity rules, su...
7 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Authentication & Security 0 Future consideration

Add support for GCP VM matching in Servicenow App

Support for matching AWs, Azure, VMWare and Hyper-V VMs exists today in the Turbonomic Servicenow app. Customer has a requirement to support matching of GCP VMs so change requests can relate to the relevant CIs in servicenow.
7 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Target Support 1

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...
4 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 0 Future consideration

RHEL OVA Template Option

With the recent announcement of CentOS going EoL, the Turbonomic OVA Template is being delivered on Rocky Linux beginning with 8.12.02. Unlike CentOS, Rocky is not approved for US Federal and will require extensive testing. RHEL is already adopted...
7 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / General/Other 1 Not under consideration