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IBM Turbonomic ARM

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Show Parent Widget Name on Widget edit screen.

For example, if we would like to create a custom widget with "Workload Cost Breakdown" commodity which used on "Cloud Executive Dashboard", but finding "Workload Cost Breakdown" commodity from "Add Widget" function is not a easy task unfotunatelly...
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 0 Future consideration

We need to be able to have more than one Servicenow targets

This is to support development and testing. We have our Turbonomic intergrate with our production SNOW. But we need to be able to also integrate with our development SNOW to support more development and testing. Most customer will have a productio...
2 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Target Support 1 Planned for future release

As a user I would like the ability to configure which properties are shown in the entity information widget, so I can see them quickly without having to click 'show all' which will save me time when using Turbonomic

Currently the Entity Information does not provide much value without clicking the Show All button. Much of the information it displays is already elsewhere on the same page. Allowing customizability to the fields you see would make for more effici...
10 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / General/Other 0 Future consideration

Add cluster data to Turbo Plans

Currently the plans in Turbo show host level. I would benefit from seeing cluster level information in the plans.
7 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Planning 0 Future consideration

Add an extra pop up to the Execute Action button so it asks “Are you sure you want to perform actions?” to prevent executing actions by accident?

Is it possible that you can add an extra pop up to the Execute Action button so it asks “Are you sure you want to perform actions?” to prevent executing actions by accident? I was performing an action 2 days ago on an AWS account and I clicked on ...
2 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / SaaS 1

As a user I would like to push Kafka topics to multiple brokers/consumers, so that I can use built-in SaaS reporting as well as provide the data for internal BI teams

Please see attached for details for consideration. It would provide great benefit to be able to utilize kafka connectors to asynchronously push data to other consumers rather than the current 1:1 producer:consumer to data explorer today.
6 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Custom Workflows 1 Future consideration

Provide integration with CyberArk and/or gMSA into SQL Probe for password access/management/key rotation.

Provide integration with CyberArk and/or gMSA into SQL Probe for password access/management/key rotation.in organizations where security is paramount (which is the majority of companies now) it is a security threat to have Service Accounts where i...
6 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Authentication & Security 1 Future consideration

Disable All Actions Switch under Global Default Policies must include Parking Actions. Currently does not.

People might assume that the Global Defaults Disable All Actions switch might work on Parking actions. And then during a cutover, machines would be turned off by accident causing massive disruption. EITHER this switch should INCLUDE parking action...
10 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 0 Future consideration

Add a description field of at least 256 characters to Groups and Policies to allow for annotation of when and why they were created for and what other objects they correspond to.

Just as this description field is used in this idea submission, a description field in the Groups and Policies will allow us to tag them with metadata that will be useful in remembering when and why we created them.
9 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 1 Future consideration

Enable granular automation for databases

At current version, a Turbonomic admin can't choose the direction that a Database action can be executed. Even at Group creation, we don't have filters to pick just performance or Savings or if the Cost Impact is positive or negative (because some...
7 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM 0 Future consideration