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IBM Turbonomic ARM

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Have Turbonomic pull data from Infrastructure of Instana not Application Perspective

Have Turbonomic pull data from Infrastructure of Instana not Application Perspective. Since Instana views active VMs differently in the application perspective not all VMs show up and then does not populate to Turbonomic. But in Instana Infrastruc...
8 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / APIs / APM & Applications & Databases 1 Not under consideration

Implement Custom Roles & RBAC Control via Entity/Tag

This would benefit all users of Turbonomic by allowing administrators to define custom roles, as well as the permissions applied to these roles either globally or by entity/tag and their respective child objects. This would enable application owne...
over 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Authentication & Security 11 Future consideration

I wanted to get access to two or more turbonomic roles with different access scope to be used at the same time with different roles.

I wanted to get access to two or more turbonomic roles with different access scope to be used at the same time. Our setup uses external authentication provider to get access to turbo SaaS application. For example, i have observer role configured w...
5 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / General/Other 3 Not under consideration

Automation to monitor Postgres Databases

Need to monitor POstgres Databses via Turbonomics. Currently, its not available but need that feature for us to support. Right now, its a industry standard database.

Add an "at least" option to go up to maximum when scaling up and down to minimum when scaling down

Today, Turbonomic calculates the desired sizing of a VM and then generates an action to go there. Currently if there's a minimum set in a policy, Turbonomic could just discard the action if the Desired State is below the minimum and then not resiz...
about 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM 0 Future consideration

Oracle Target Admin Role

I would like to be able to offload the administration (create, modify, delete) of the Oracle targets to a person or group without giving them the role of Site Administrator.Oracle targets, in particular, are very tedious to manage because a separa...
23 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / General/Other 0 Future consideration

Turbonomic must provide the consistent logic as key summary(text explanation) to Admins for the recommendation action.

The image of "Turbonomic recommendation action" as attached is just an example. Turbonomic is recommending that the current AWS EC2 VM be changed from A type to B type for better resource utilization. However, we can not know why the recommendatio...
8 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Billing & Costs & Discounts 5 Future consideration

Add Turbo MVS Licenses as an additional line in the Workload Improvements Widget

We've just had a sensitive conversation with the client where we were NOT able to give a clear count of License growth over time because we didn't have the data. Merely point in Time which was recorded by Jim. If we were able to put ACTIVE VM coun...
3 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / General/Other 1 Future consideration

Data Privacy: Implement a solution to filter PI data from imported tags

Customers, especially in EMEA have data privacy concern if PI data is processed by a SaaS solution. PI data maybe contained in tags Turbonomic imports from Hypervisors or cloud providers. Please implement an option when adding targets that allow i...
about 2 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / SaaS 0 Under review

Prevent merge policies to be automatically deleted when one scoped member of the policy (host, network, storage, etc) is deleted or removed.

When creating merge policies, if for example, a cluster merge policy contains hostCluster1, hostCluster2 and hostCluster3, and one of those hostCluster is removed from vCenter or from Turbo, the merge police gets automatically deleted, so the cust...
4 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 0