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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.
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Authentication & Security 0 Future consideration

Support Scaling Actions for GCP Sole Tenancy Workloads

In GCP you can deploy workloads on Sole Tenancy Nodes, typically large projects. We would want to optimize workloads running on sole tenancy nodes to achieve more savings. Currently, Turbo discovers those workloads without actions.
6 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud IaaS 2 Future consideration

Add a feature that displays the number of days since a proposed action was generated.

From the perspective of deciding which actions to prioritize, it would be helpful to see the history of past proposals—especially if we want to prioritize actions that have been pending for three months or longer. Currently, the customer exports t...
6 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 0

Import AD and UI certificates through UI

Today the customer's need to go through editing yaml files on the backend to be able to use secure ldap or importing a cert to to secure the Turbonomic UI or when using secure proxy when targeting cloud targets. All these scenarios need the custom...
about 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 0 Planned for future release

When an action execution is blocked by relative actions, user should be able to see the list of all those relative actions (possibly as a dependency chain)

When the action execution is blocked by relative actions, i.e with status "Action execution is blocked by related actions on this entity or destination entity." , as a user I don't have an easy way to find out which other actions are causing the b...
about 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM 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...
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Custom Workflows 2 Planned for future release

Allow greater control over "externalTaskTimeoutMin" API setting by action type

Every different action type has dramatically different timeout expectations. For example, a compute vmotion should have a relatively lower timeout (<45 min), whereas a storage vmotion should account for a longer timeout, with some taking severa...
about 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / APIs 0 Future consideration

Azure Billing Currency Mismatch Warning

When using Azure Billing to an EA target we faced a problem recently that Turbonomic would fetch data with mismatching currencies. Is it possible for the engineering team to set a sort of check like in the target config for Azure Billing. It would...
about 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Billing & Costs & Discounts 0 Future consideration

Support for parking of Azure Analysis Services

Azure analysis services is used for our reporting data model and not needed during off hours.
about 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 0 Future consideration

Support for IBM FlashSystem devices under IBM SVC management

Currently, Turbonomic doesn't support FlashSystem under SVC as its considerations. One of my potential Turbo customer has FlashSystem with SVC.
about 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Target Support 1 Not under consideration