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Prerequisites
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Log in to the vRealize Automation console as a tenant administrator or XaaS architect.
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Create a Resource Action.
Procedure
1 Select Design > XaaS > Resource Actions.
2 Click the resource action you want to edit.
3 Click the Form tab.
4 Drag the Text element from the New Fields pane to the Form page pane.
5 Enter the text you want to add.
6 Click outside of the element to save the changes.
7 Click Finish.
XaaS Examples and Scenarios
The examples and scenarios suggest ways that you can use vRealize Automation to accomplish common
tasks using XaaS blueprints and resource actions.
Create an XaaS Blueprint and Action for Creating and Modifying a User
By using XaaS, you can create and publish a catalog item for provisioning a user in a group. You can also
associate a new post-provisioning operation to the provisioned user, for example, an operation allowing
the consumers to change the user password.
As an XaaS architect, you create a new custom resource, an XaaS blueprint, and publish a catalog item
for creating a user. You also create a resource action for changing the password of the user.
As a catalog administrator, you create a service and include the blueprint catalog item in the service. In
addition, you edit the workflow presentation of the catalog item by using the form designer and change
the way the consumers see the request form.
As a business group manager or a tenant administrator, you entitle the newly created service, catalog
item, and resource action to a consumer.
Prerequisites
Verify that the Active Directory plug-in is properly configured and you have the rights to create users in
Active Directory.
Procedure
1 Create a Test User as a Custom Resource
You can create a custom resource and map it to the vRealize Orchestrator object type AD:User.
2 Create an XaaS Blueprint for Creating a User
After you created the custom resource, you can create the XaaS blueprint to publish the Create a
user in a group workflow as a catalog item.
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