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Status Future consideration
Workspace IBM Turbonomic ARM
Created by Guest
Created on Sep 29, 2023

Stop Azure Application Gateway via a schedule/policy to reduce costs when back-end pools are off line or shutdown.

Azure Application Gateways cannot be stopped/started via the Azure Web Portal, but they can be stopped or started using Azure CLI or Powershell. There is also a POST command API method to start/stop an Application Gateway that can be found in the Azure Resource Explorer. 

https://resources.azure.com/

We run many DevTest Lab workloads for our Quest Presales teams. 
In several labs we provide access to web applications via an Application Gateway. However, these environments/VMs typically only need to be running during the assigned user's normal business hours.  So, the VMs for the backend pools are often turned off nights and weekends. But our Application Gateways remain running and costing us for each hour of run time.

We would like the ability to use the Turbonomic Parking Scheduler or some other method to schedule the Stop/Start commands so we can take these Application Gateways offline when not needed, and started at the appropriate time for the region timezone/business hours in question.

Idea priority Medium