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Cloud Pak for Multicloud Management Ideas

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Pre-deployment policy checks to verify that provisioning requests meet the standards/rules of the organization for infrastructure

Deployments must adhere to provisioning standards and stay within security "guard rails". These standards and guard rails are spelled out by means of a collection of rules that are applied to provisioning requests to determine if the requests are ...
about 5 years ago in Cloud Pak for Multicloud Management Ideas 1 Future consideration

Installation Process should also include using yaml to install

This is to provide an installation path when using the console is not an option because of customer security restrictions. Also to make changes after the installation you use yaml. Also if you have to make adjustments from the defaults then it's a...
over 3 years ago in Cloud Pak for Multicloud Management Ideas 0 Future consideration

Capability to create custom roles in addition to the available standard roles

ICP is missing custom role creation option as per APIC 2018.4.1.0. It will give admins the flexibility to create the purposely build custom roles to cater the need of individual teams. Example: New role with the standard viewer plus access to t...
over 5 years ago in Cloud Pak for Multicloud Management Ideas 1 Functionality already exists

Create operand to delete operators when uninstalling MCM v2.0.0

When uninstalling MCM v2.0.0 the user should have the ability to use an out-of-the-box operand to uninstall all of the operators MCM v2.0.0 creates. It is tedious to delete every operator when an install goes wrong.
over 3 years ago in Cloud Pak for Multicloud Management Ideas 0 Not under consideration

Using Kustomize to Simplify Client Configuration

Kustomize is a declarative management tool that allows users to create different variants or configurations of a base yaml. A tool like this can assist our clients configure our product during the installation process.
over 3 years ago in Cloud Pak for Multicloud Management Ideas 0 Not under consideration

Support runtime data collectors to monitor applications using gRPC

When deploying an application that uses gRPC with the runtime data collector, that is, even if the communication between the kubernetes services is other than HTTP/HTTPS, it can be viewed the service dependency topology and the transaction sequenc...
over 3 years ago in Cloud Pak for Multicloud Management Ideas 0 Not under consideration

MCM Addition of ISM agent to monitor DNS, SNMP and Apache through HTTP

In our environment, we are using APM v8 and monitoring DNS, SNMP and Apache (via HTTP) using ISM agent, we will be upgrading to MCM soon and will be monitoring the same processes.
almost 2 years ago in Cloud Pak for Multicloud Management Ideas 0 Not under consideration

License Compliance for Cloud Pak for Automation for Prod and Non-Prod env based on entitlement ratios

So, License Compliance advisor needs to provide the compliance status based on the below deployment criteria: Prod vs Non-Prod: : Cloud Pak for Automation is charged differently for production vs non-product environments. Also there ...
over 4 years ago in Cloud Pak for Multicloud Management Ideas 2 Not under consideration

Support creating application yaml from already deployed app

When importing existing cluster or when apps are deployed outside MCM, add ability to create a simple application yaml so that the user can take advantage of MCM capabilities.
over 4 years ago in Cloud Pak for Multicloud Management Ideas 0 Future consideration

LDAP Group Support for ICAM

We need ICAM to be able to support LDAP groups so that based on the group the user belongs to the appropriate ICAM group and roles can automatically be assigned.
about 2 years ago in Cloud Pak for Multicloud Management Ideas 1 Not under consideration