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Policies

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Policies when doing Initial Placement should include VM Dynamic Filter Logic

When using the Place/Initial Placement functionality, part of the process is selecting Placement or Do Not Place Policies in addition to the Scope. When selecting a VM template and selecting a Place Policy that has Dynamic criteria (e.g. if a VM h...
3 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 0 Future consideration

I would like to be able to create policies with someone other than "Site Administrator".

Many systems are already managed by one Turbonomic, but we want to leave policy management to individual system administrators. (a specific non-administrator user on turbonomic who only has limited group acess but able to create new automation pol...
8 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 0 Future consideration

Policy Toggles to enable/disable a specific policy

Use case 1: Auto imported policies are not needed and are interfering with user defined policies. Enable a policy toggle to disable it at the policy level in Turbonomic so that no resources are affected by it. A bulk selection and disable menu ava...
28 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 0 Future consideration

Create an option for latest gen storage or instance types

Turbonomic could be able to help assist in lifecycle management activities by suggesting only newer (assuming less expensive) hardware types. This avoids having to update hundreds of policies where explicit selections were previously made. Example...
29 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 0 Future consideration

Ignoring a proposed action for a certain period of time (hiding it from the Pending Action list for that period).

Turbonomic can generate many actions, but sometimes you may want to ignore a proposed action for a certain period of time after understanding its content. In such cases, it would be useful for operations if you could check the relevant action and ...
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 5 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

Track metadata on when a policy was created, modified and by who

Currently there is nowhere in the policy list to see who created it, when it was created, when it was modified or who the culprit is. This type of basic logging would be very useful when you have hundreds of people active in the tool at the same t...
28 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 1 Future consideration

Breakout list of user-defined policies into entity type to match the list provided in the group management UI

Current groups are broken out by VM, Account, DB, etc. In policies they are only grouped by imported, user defined, etc. Would be more useful to add sub sections by policy type: VM, Volume, etc.
28 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 0 Future consideration

Add description or summary field to Groups and Policy forms

Under the name allow for a short description to be added to explain why that particular group or policy needed to be created. This could then be displayed in the list of those object types for quick viewing. Example1: This group used to isolate th...
28 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 0 Future consideration

Allow a way to Save As New a copy of an existing group, schedule or policy object

Allow for a group, policy, or schedule to be duplicated. Save As New. Keep all current settings allowing the user to first edit the one variable that needs to change and then save to create it. This would significantly speed up the scoping pre-wor...
28 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 0 Future consideration