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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 workow 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 congured and you have the rights to create users in
Active Directory.
Procedure
1 Create a Test User as a Custom Resource on page 336
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 on page 336
After you created the custom resource, you can create the XaaS blueprint to publish the Create a user
in a group workow as a catalog item.
3 Publish the Create a User Blueprint as a Catalog Item on page 337
After you create the Create a test user XaaS blueprint, you can publish it as a catalog item.
4 Create a Resource Action to Change a User Password on page 337
You can create a resource action to allow the consumers of the XaaS create a user blueprint to change
the password of the user after they provision the user.
5 Publish the Change a Password Resource Action on page 338
To use the Change the password of the Test User resource action as a post-provisioning operation, you
must publish it.
6 Create a Catalog Service for Creating a Test User on page 338
You can create a service to display the create a user catalog item in the service catalog and allow
consumers to easily locate the catalog item related to creating the test user.
7 Associate the Catalog Item with the Create a Test User Service on page 339
To include the Create a test user catalog item in the Create a Test User service, you must associate it
with this service.
8 Entitle the Service and the Resource Action to a Consumer on page 339
Business group managers and tenant administrators can entitle the service and the resource action to a
user or a group of users so that they can see the service in their catalog and request the Create a test
user catalog item included in the service. After the consumers provision the item, they can request to
change the user password.
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