Owner's Manual
Building and Publishing Template
Building and Publishing Template
To start building a customized template, perform the following steps:
1. Click Templates → Create Template.
2. Select either New or Clone Existing radio button.
3. Enter a Template Name.
4. Enter a Template Description. (Optional).
5. Click Save.
On the
Build Template page, a newly created or cloned template appears in a Draft state.
6. To add components to your template, click a specific component icon in the left. From the Select a
Component drop-down list, select the component that you want to add. Specific settings and
properties appear automatically that are required and can be edited. After completion, click Add.
7. After you complete adding components to your template, click Publish Template. Publishing a
template indicates that a template is ready for deployment.
If a template is not published, it cannot be deployed and remains in the Draft state until published.
For more information about a particular type of component, see Component Types section.
On the Build Template page, the Deploy Service option is not visible until you click the Publish
Template option. On publishing, the
Edit and Deploy Service options are visible.
Related Links
Building Template Overview
Deploy Service
Sample Templates
Importing Template
The Import Template option allows you to import the components of an existing template, along with
their component configurations, into a template. For example, you can create a template that defines
specific cluster and virtual machine topology, and then import this template definition into another
template. After importing, you can modify the component properties of the imported components.
NOTE: Editing the imported template does not affect the original template that was imported and
vice versa.
To import a template, perform the following steps:
1. Click Templates.
2. Create Template or Edit
an existing template.
3. On the Template Builder page, click Import Template.
4. On the right, select a specific template from the Select a template drop-down list, and click Import.
Editing Template
You can edit an existing template to change the Draft state of the selected template to the published
state for deployment, or to modify the exiting components and their properties.
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