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IBM Turbonomic ARM

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Turbo Licenses are tracked 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...
2 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / General/Other 0 Submitted

update the Workload Improvements Charts to include what a workload is.

Customers want to track licenses - and often think they can use the workload chart to do so - but they cannot. A separate Idea for Enhancement will be added today. If the documentation was updated to include the following - it would add clarity. A...
2 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Documentation 1 Needs more information

Call Turbonomic API using SSO/SAML credential/token (not local user)

We can only execute APIs using a local user or Oauth. So, we have 2 problems: a) local user can't be protected like an SSO user (like when using Azure AD for conditional access); b) Oauth authentication in Turbo for APIs makes the Turbonomic an Oa...
12 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Authentication & Security 2 Under review

Make regionMap available through target addition page

Today when adding an AWS target, is the customer's SCP policies do not allow access to all regions (which is the case for 75%+ customers), they need to edit the regionMap to specify which regions they support. This has to be done through swagger a...
6 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Target Support 0 Future consideration

Include a simple method to import AD/LDAP certificates for external authentication

The current method to import the LDAP certificate to allow for external AD authentication is extremely complex, cumbersome, time consuming, and error prone. Multiple troubleshooting sessions are needed a times to figure out how to get the certific...
about 15 hours ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Authentication & Security 0 Submitted

Support parking for Aurora DB instances

Today, Turbonomic only support the parking of regular RDS instances. We should cover all Aurora instance as well, since it's heavily used by AWS shops.
about 19 hours ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud PaaS & DBaaS 0 Submitted

Allow insert limit in Park override

Today if a user override a parket VM, they can choose between a end date or a number of hours. But someone with bad intentions can override for 1 year or 999 hours for instance. The admin should have a way to put limit on each override, like 2 hou...
about 19 hours ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 0 Submitted

Parking runs into problems when VMs are too close to the Quota Limit

Business Case: Customer shut down 5 Azure VMs - and tried to turn them on in the morning - only 4 did- because the quota for that VM was exhausted. The Customer had to half the size of the machine - then it could start up. What would be REALLY goo...
2 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud IaaS 1 Submitted

Parking should have better notification. More than just an error message in the Executed actions widget

The customer is using Parking to suspend and bring up scores of machines. They need to know quickly and easily if machines are NOT suspending and/or starting up. Can we get notifications displayed in the Parking Modules. This will make it easier f...
2 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud IaaS 2 Submitted

Integrate policy scheduling for on prem actions by scheduled maintenance windows

We had purchased a custom integration which was crafted by Ray Mileo and John Fabry which integrates scheduled maintenance windows in our turbonomic solution which creates policies based on configured maintenance windows / patching cycles of our W...