User's Manual

Working with Templates
11-32 Active System Manager User Guide, Release 7.1
Model Model name of resource. Used for reference only; cannot be edited.
Description Description of the resource type.
Virtual Object
Count
For the virtual resource types role only. Allows you to set the number of virtual resources to be
created at realization time.
Provisioning Name
Value
Scheduling
Permission
Encrypted
List of all provisioning parameters that can be overwritten from their default value.
The Type value is only string.
To add the custom Template property (that must be overwritten) with a editable value, click Add. You
can set scheduling permissions on each custom provisioning property. The permissions allow end
users to display or edit property values at scheduling time.
The permissions are:
• Allow to Edit—The property will be editable at scheduling time.
• Allow to Show—The property displays at scheduling time.
• Hide—The property is not displayed at scheduling time.
Note: You must save the changes.
Check the Encrypted check-box to set the value of provisioning parameter as encrypted.
Inventory List of all scheduling properties that you can edit to request specific resource instances from the
scheduler.
• Custom
• System
• Custom properties—Inventory parameters that are defined in the Inventory perspective for a
resource type.
• System properties—Types of system properties, such as card type, that are pre-defined in the
Active System Manager software. These properties are built in and are common to all resource
types.
You can specify the property values for a resource, or for an interface. System properties at the
resource level are:
• assettag
• domain
Specifying a resource’s asset tag by property value is different than authoring a complete resource
instance. In either case, you can access the resource with the named tag, but the assignment of
ports is handled differently.
Properties are entered in the form of a conditional expression:
<Property name><Operator><Value>
where:
• Property name is the name of the property whose value is to be checked. This can be one of the
system properties listed above, or a custom property defined in the resource type.
• Operator can be either the “IS” or “IS NOT” or “IN” or “NOT IN” mathematical symbols.
• Value is a string whose value is to be matched. The string is not case-sensitive. Both the property
value and the string you enter is translated to lower-case before the comparison is performed.
More than one property can be specified for a resource or interface. The conditional expressions for
the properties are logically AND-ed. That is, all specified properties must match the values that you
entered for that resource or interface.
This applies to all elements of a resource being considered by the scheduler. That is, all conditions
specified for the resource must match, and all conditions specified for each interface required by the
Template must match. Any property name can only be used once for a particular resource or
interface.
For example, you cannot enter both “Author Name = John Doe” and “Author Name = John Smith” for
a resource. This is the equivalent of a logical OR operation on the conditional expressions, and is not
permitted.
Table 11-5 Default Properties for the Resource Types View (continued)
Tab Name
Property
Name Description