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IBM Turbonomic ARM

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Create an Account level policy entity type

When accounts have many different resource entity types, it's very cumbersome to create a generic policy for half a dozen resource types across dozens of accounts. If there was an Account policy type, high-level settings such as Action Generation:...
28 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 0 Submitted

Enable a manual override to stop failing actions in the queue

Currently if there is an issue with permissions or a policy conflict, actions that were manually executed will continue to retry (appears to be indefinitely?) There should be a way to cancel that action so that the logs aren't filled with one-time...
28 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / APM & Applications & Databases 0 Submitted

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

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...
8 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 0 Future consideration

Visibility of Historic Recommendations

I'd like to be able to see the historic recommendations for a volume or VM. As the resource performance changes Turbo will be making recommendations and changing them and its this history that I want to be able to see. Some of our VMs are cyclical...
5 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / General/Other 0

Have the Policies tab always show the Consistent Resize scaling constraint and its value so that I can guarantee whether it is applied to a VM or group of VMs

When you navigate to a VM or group of VMs, I want to be able to see the value for Consistent Resize that is applied to each to confirm whether or not it is applied. Currently if it is not applied, the setting is not present. This way, there's an a...
about 2 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 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.
8 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 1 Future consideration

We would like to have the Azure RG level CO2 Emission details within Turbo Sustainability Dashboard

Hello Team, We have gone through the Turbo Sustainability dashboard which includes good amount of info in it. We would like to also have a widget which includes the Azure RG level Emission details. This will give a complete picture of our Emission...
3 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Sustainability 0 Planned for future release

Add list of groups to bottom of Details page

When viewing a virtual machine or database server the details page has a list of policies at the bottom of it so you can see what's applicable. It would be handy to also see a list of group memberships since all policies are tied to a group and it...
about 1 month ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / APM & Applications & Databases 0 Future consideration

Add list of Policies to bottom of Volume details page for consistency

When viewing a virtual machine or database server the details page has a list of policies at the bottom of it, so you can see what's applicable. It would be handy to also see this list on volumes.
about 1 month ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / APM & Applications & Databases 0 Submitted