Quick Start Guide

2. Have installed and set up HP Cloud Service Automation, following the instructions in theHP
Cloud Service Automation Installation Guide and the HP Cloud Service Automation
Configuration Guide.
What is HP Cloud Service Automation?
HP Cloud Service Automation (HP CSA) is a unique platform that orchestrates the deployment of
compute and infrastructure resources and of complex multi-tier application architectures. HP CSA
integrates and leverages the strengths of several HP datacenter management and automation
products, adding resource management, service offering design, and a customer portal to create a
comprehensive service automation solution.
The HP CSA subscription, service design and resource utilization capabilities address three key
challenges:
l The Marketplace Portal provides a customer interface for requesting new cloud services and for
monitoring and managing existing services, with subscription pricing to meet your business
requirements.
l The HP CSA graphical service design and content portability tools simplify developing,
leveraging, and sharing an array of service offerings that can be tailored to your customers’
needs.
l The HP CSA lifecycle framework and resource utilization features ease the complexity of
mapping your cloud fulfillment infrastructure into reusable, automated resource offerings for on-
time and on-budget delivery.
For further information about HP CSA concepts, see the HP Cloud Service Automation Concepts
Guide. For information about the HP CSA management console, see the HP Cloud Service
Management Console Help.
HP Cloud Service Automation API Documentation
Overview
CSA 4.00 exposes subscription, service and resource information through RESTful API calls.You
can exercise all CSA RESTful API calls programmatically and from an HTTP client. You'll find
more information on HTTP clients in "Retrieving Information from HPCSA 4.00 using RESTful
calls" on page 10.
Consumption API Overview
HP Cloud Service Automation 4.00 introduced a set of RESTful API calls as well as a framework
for describing, producing, consuming and exercising these RESTfulservices. In addition to
providing reference API documentation, this content provides an interactive environment where you
can exercise API calls and view the response from your server. This set of API calls is referred to
as the Consumption API.
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