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Table Of Contents
- Configuring vRealize Automation
- Contents
- Configuring vRealize Automation
- Updated Information
- External Preparations for Provisioning
- Preparing Your Environment for vRealize Automation Management
- Checklist for Preparing NSX Network and Security Configuration
- Preparing Your vCloud Director Environment for vRealize Automation
- Preparing Your vCloud Air Environment for vRealize Automation
- Preparing Your Amazon AWS Environment
- Preparing Red Hat OpenStack Network and Security Features
- Preparing Your SCVMM Environment
- Preparing for Machine Provisioning
- Choosing a Machine Provisioning Method to Prepare
- Checklist for Running Visual Basic Scripts During Provisioning
- Using vRealize Automation Guest Agent in Provisioning
- Checklist for Preparing to Provision by Cloning
- Preparing for vCloud Air and vCloud Director Provisioning
- Preparing for Linux Kickstart Provisioning
- Preparing for SCCM Provisioning
- Preparing for WIM Provisioning
- Preparing for Virtual Machine Image Provisioning
- Preparing for Amazon Machine Image Provisioning
- Scenario: Prepare vSphere Resources for Machine Provisioning in Rainpole
- Preparing for Software Provisioning
- Preparing Your Environment for vRealize Automation Management
- Configuring Tenant Settings
- Choosing Directories Management Configuration Options
- Directories Management Overview
- Using Directories Management to Create an Active Directory Link
- Configure a Link to Active Directory
- Configure Directories Management for High Availability
- Configure a Bi Directional Trust Relationship Between vRealize Automation and Active Directory
- Configure SAML Federation Between Directories Management and SSO2
- Add Users or Groups to an Active Directory Connection
- Select Attributes to Sync with Directory
- Add Memory to Directories Management
- Create a Domain Host Lookup File to Override DNS Service Location (SRV) Lookup
- Managing User Attributes that Sync from Active Directory
- Managing Connectors
- Join a Connector Machine to a Domain
- About Domain Controller Selection
- Managing Access Policies
- Integrating Alternative User Authentication Products with Directories Management
- Configuring SecurID for Directories Management
- Configuring RADIUS for Directories Management
- Configuring a Certificate or Smart Card Adapter for Use with Directories Management
- Configuring a Third-Party Identity Provider Instance to Authenticate Users
- Managing Authentication Methods to Apply to Users
- Configuring Kerberos for Directories Management
- Scenario: Configure an Active Directory Link for a Highly Available vRealize Automation
- Scenario: Configure Smart Card Authentication for vRealize Automation
- Configuring Groups and User Roles
- Scenario: Configure the Default Tenant for Rainpole
- Scenario: Create Local User Accounts for Rainpole
- Scenario: Connect Your Corporate Active Directory to vRealize Automation for Rainpole
- Scenario: Configure Branding for the Default Tenant for Rainpole
- Scenario: Create a Custom Group for Your Rainpole Architects
- Scenario: Assign IaaS Administrator Privileges to Your Custom Group of Rainpole Architects
- Create Additional Tenants
- Configuring Custom Branding
- Checklist for Configuring Notifications
- Configuring Global Email Servers for Notifications
- Add a Tenant-Specific Outbound Email Server
- Add a Tenant-Specific Inbound Email Server
- Override a System Default Outbound Email Server
- Override a System Default Inbound Email Server
- Revert to System Default Email Servers
- Configure Notifications
- Configuring Templates for Automatic IaaS Emails
- Subscribe to Notifications
- Create a Custom RDP File to Support RDP Connections for Provisioned Machines
- Scenario: Add Datacenter Locations for Cross Region Deployments
- Configuring vRealize Orchestrator and Plug-Ins
- Choosing Directories Management Configuration Options
- Configuring Resources
- Checklist for Configuring IaaS Resources
- Store User Credentials
- Choosing an Endpoint Scenario
- Create an Amazon Endpoint
- Create an OpenStack Endpoint
- Create a vCloud Air Endpoint
- Create a vCloud Director Endpoint
- Create a vRealize Orchestrator Endpoint
- Create a NetApp ONTAP Endpoint
- Create a Hyper-V (SCVMM) Endpoint
- Create a Standalone Endpoint for Hyper-V
- Create a KVM (RHEV) Endpoint
- Create a vSphere Endpoint
- Create a vSphere Endpoint with Network and Security Integration
- Create a Xen Pool Endpoint
- Create a XenServer Endpoint
- Preparing an Endpoint CSV File for Import
- Import a List of Endpoints
- Troubleshooting Attached vSphere Endpoint Cannot be Found
- Troubleshooting Locate the vCloud Air Management URL for an Organization Virtual Data Center
- Create a Fabric Group
- Configure Machine Prefixes
- Managing Key Pairs
- Creating a Network Profile
- Configuring Reservations and Reservation Policies
- Reservations
- Choosing a Reservation Scenario
- Creating Cloud Category Reservations
- Creating Virtual Category Reservations
- Edit a Reservation to Assign a Network Profile
- Reservation Policies
- Storage Reservation Policies
- Reservations
- Scenario: Configure IaaS Resources for Rainpole
- Scenario: Apply a Location to a Compute Resource for Cross Region Deployments
- Configuring XaaS Resources
- Installing Additional Plug-Ins on the Default vRealize Orchestrator Server
- Checklist for Configuring IaaS Resources
- Providing On-Demand Services to Users
- Designing Blueprints
- Exporting and Importing Blueprints
- Building Your Design Library
- Designing Machine Blueprints
- Space-Efficient Storage for Virtual Provisioning
- Configure a Machine Blueprint
- Machine Blueprint Settings
- Adding Network and Security Properties to a Machine Component
- Scenario: Create a vSphere CentOS Blueprint for Cloning in Rainpole
- Scenario: Turn Your Rainpole Machine into a Base for Delivering Software Components
- Add RDP Connection Support to Your Windows Machine Blueprints
- Scenario: Add Active Directory Cleanup to Your CentOS Blueprint
- Scenario: Allow Requesters to Specify Machine Host Name
- Scenario: Enable Users to Select Datacenter Locations for Cross Region Deployments
- Designing Machine Blueprints with NSX Networking and Security
- New Blueprint and Blueprint Properties Settings with NSX
- Configuring Network and Security Component Settings
- Associating Network and Security Components
- Designing Software Components
- Creating XaaS Blueprints and Resource Actions
- vRealize Orchestrator Integration in vRealize Automation
- List of vRealize Orchestrator Plug-Ins
- Creating Custom Resources
- Creating XaaS Blueprints and Resource Actions
- Mapping Other Resources to Work with XaaS Resource Actions
- Designing Forms for XaaS Blueprints and Actions
- XaaS Examples and Scenarios
- Create an XaaS Blueprint and Action for Creating and Modifying a User
- Create a Test User as a Custom Resource
- Create an XaaS Blueprint for Creating a User
- Publish the Create a User Blueprint as a Catalog Item
- Create a Resource Action to Change a User Password
- Publish the Change a Password Resource Action
- Create a Catalog Service for Creating a Test User
- Associate the Catalog Item with the Create a Test User Service
- Entitle the Service and the Resource Action to a Consumer
- Create and Publish an XaaS Action to Migrate a Virtual Machine
- Create an XaaS Action to Migrate a Virtual Machine With vMotion
- Create and Publish an XaaS Action to Take a Snapshot
- Create and Publish an XaaS Action to Start an Amazon Virtual Machine
- Create an XaaS Blueprint and Action for Creating and Modifying a User
- Troubleshooting Incorrect Accents and Special Characters in XaaS Blueprints
- Publishing a Blueprint
- Designing Machine Blueprints
- Assembling Application Blueprints
- Managing the Service Catalog
- Checklist for Configuring the Service Catalog
- Creating a Service
- Working with Catalog Items and Actions
- Creating an Entitlement
- Working with Approval Policies
- Examples of Approval Policies Based on the Virtual Machine Policy Type
- Example of Actions with Approval Policies Applied in a Composite Deployment
- Example of an Approval Policy in Multiple Entitlements
- Processing Approval Policies in the Service Catalog
- Create an Approval Policy
- Modify an Approval Policy
- Deactivate an Approval Policy
- Delete an Approval Policy
- Scenario: Configure the Catalog for Rainpole Architects to Test Blueprints
- Scenario: Test Your Rainpole CentOS Machine
- Scenario: Make the CentOS with MySQL Application Blueprint Available in the Service Catalog
- Scenario: Create and Apply CentOS with MySQL Approval Policies
Published Catalog Items
A catalog item is a published blueprint. Published blueprints can also be used in other blueprints. The
reuse of blueprints in other blueprints is not displayed in the catalog items list.
The published catalog items can also include items that are only components of blueprints. For example,
published software components are listed as catalog items, but they are available only as part of a
deployment.
Deployment catalog items must be associated with a service so that you can make them available in the
service catalog to entitled users. Only active items appear in the service catalog. You can configure
catalog items to a different service, disable it if you want to temporarily remove it from the service catalog,
and add a custom icon that appears in the catalog.
Published Actions
Actions are changes that you can make to provisioned catalog items. For example, you can reboot a
virtual machine.
Actions can include built-in actions or actions created using XaaS. Built-in actions are added when you
add a machine or other provided blueprint. XaaS actions must be created and published.
Actions are not associated with services. You must include an action in the entitlement that contains the
catalog item on which the action runs. Actions that are entitled to users do not appear in the service
catalog. The actions are available for the provisioned item on the service catalog user's Items tab based
whether they are applicable to the item and to the current state of the item.
You can add a custom icon to the action that appears on the Items tab.
Configure a Catalog Item
A catalog item is a published blueprint that you can entitle to users. You use the catalog items options to
change the status or associated service. You can also view the entitlements that include the selected
catalog item.
Only catalog items that are associated with a service and entitled to users appear in the service catalog.
Catalog items can be associated with only one service.
Prerequisites
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Log in to the vRealize Automation console as a tenant administrator or catalog administrator.
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Verify that you have at least one blueprint published as a catalog item. See Publish a Blueprint.
Procedure
1 Select Administration > Catalog Management > Catalog Items.
2 Select the catalog item and click Configure.
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