HP Insight Dynamics 6.0 Getting Started Guide

Orchestration templates. An architect creates and maintains standardized infrastructure templates,
working with the system administrator to ensure templates are compatible with existing resources
and business needs, enabling quick response to changing requirements in the business-defined
set of standard templates. In general, architectural tasks include:
• Designing both simple and multi-tier, multinode service templates
• Capturing requirements for server, storage, and networks
• Publishing templates to the Insight Orchestration Self-Service portal for service-creation
• Specifying costs and resources to support tracking and reporting of resources
To accomplish these tasks, you:
1. Research the requirements necessary to meet operational and business unit objectives
2. Create infrastructure service templates to meet the business requirements
3. Produce a bill of materials for each template including the resources required to provision
each template
4. Publish the templates for use by the business units
Insight Orchestration console
The Insight Orchestration console enables you, as an administrator, to deploy, manage and
monitor the overall behavior of Insight Orchestration and its users, templates, services and
resources. Administrators also interact with the architect to ensure templates are compatible
with existing resources and business needs as requests are fulfilled or denied. For example, as
an administrator you:
• View status, progress, and details of completed and executing requests
• View available resources
• Approve or reject requests
• Perform pool management
To accomplish these tasks as an administrator, you:
• Create resource pools for hosting services based on standardized templates and the business
forecast
• Collaborate with the business units to register user accounts for access to the Self-Service
portal
• Assign one or more resource pools to each self-service user, authorizing the user to deploy
service templates on a given pool of hardware resources
Insight Orchestration Self-Service portal
The Insight Orchestration Self-Service portal enables you to create infrastructure services from
published templates. To create infrastructure services:
1. Review the published templates and decide which template is appropriate for the current
objectives
2. Review your assigned pools and select the resources to use for your service
3. Submit a request to provision the service
4. After the request is approved, monitor the progress of the service provisioning process
Insight Operations Orchestration
The HP Operations Orchestration Studio enables you to create custom workflow processes and
attach them to infrastructure service templates.
Insight Orchestration defines integration points for Operations Orchestration workflows that
are run each time a specific operation is invoked, regardless of the template or infrastructure
service involved in the operation. Insight Orchestration provides basic or sample Operations
Orchestration workflows for some of these operations, however you can modify or create new
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