User's Manual

Working with Templates
11-40 Active System Manager User Guide, Release 7.1
Modifying Resource Properties
Resource properties first appear when you add a resource (type or instance) to the Template by dragging it
from the navigation tree. You can access the resource properties by clicking the resource. To modify
resource properties, you must access and work within the resource Properties view.
From this view, you can modify the editable properties listed on the Resource, Provisioning, Inventory,
Configuration Files, and Image Files tabs.
Deleting Resource Instances
To remove the resource instance from the Template (and not from the inventory), in the Template editor,
right-click the resource instance and select Delete.
Note If there is any connectivity in the Template with other resource types or resource instances, the links
attached to the resource type (or resource instance) that you select will also be deleted.
Configuration
Files
Image Files
Used if you want to provision the resource. Each tab allows you to select
files from the newly-created repositories; for more information about
repositories, see Chapter 9, “Repository Management.”
The following menu options are available on each tab:
• Add—Before you type the filename, you can add an image file or
configuration by clicking Add in the Properties view
. A list of
preassociated files are listed. You must then select from that list of files. If
the list is empty, then file associations must be made in the repository
definition. In all cases, the repository must be created and elements must
be discovered, imported, and associated with a resource instance.
• Remove—Removes the file from the resource type for this
Template.
Configuration
Files
Image Files
• Open—Opens and modifies the configuration files while adding it into the
Template.
• Up and Down—If you have, at least, two files, you can rearrange the
order in which the files will be applied on the resource by the Active
System Manager software.
• V
ersions—Applies for source control repositories. Specific versions of
files can be selected; otherwise, the latest files will be used.
For information about repositories, see Chapter 9, “Repository
Management.”
To set up provisioning parameters, see Chapter 8, “Using Inventory.”
Name Filename derived from the repository.
Path Path derived from the repository.
Repository Repository name assigned or selected.
Version Applies only for source control software-base repository.
Tag Applies only for source control software-base repository [CVS only].
Table 11-7 Default Properties for the Resource Instances View (continued)
Tab Name Property Name Description