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Sort and Group Policy List

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When viewing any particular entity or scope, the list of policies on the Policy tab is a randomly sorted randomly named list. Since a majority of these policies are automatically being generated by Turbonomic based on cloud provider constraints, it would be more useful to prioritize a list of just customer created (manually generated) policies separate from the automated policies. Manually generated policies often are the source of self-inflicted anomalies are the primary list of policies used for troubleshooting the proposed actions. 

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  • Guest
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    Jan 14, 2025

    Hi Jeremy, Yes that categorization is exactly what is needed, but it's needed when viewing the list of Policies on a specific entity or group. If I'm looking at a VM, or custom group, the policies tab is a randomly sorted list (some we created, some the tool is creating.) Typically the user-created policies are the ones applicable to troubleshooting a problem. If those were listed first and the autogenerated policies listed second, that would make it much easier to review. As an example, I just randomly picked an EC2 to refresh my memory, and it had 14 policies applied. 6 of which are from Turbonomic but mixed throughout the list.

    On that entity's Policy tab it would look like:

    Entity Policies

    • User Defined Policies

    • Imported Policies

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    Jeremy Hazlett
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    Jan 14, 2025

    Thank you for taking the time to submit this idea! There is already a 'User Defined Automation Policies' section that you can scope to on the Policies management page; can you help me understand what's different about what you're requesting?