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Table 4‑51. Examples of Approval Policies and Results (Continued)
Governance
Goals
Selected
Policy Type
Pre or Post
Approval
When is
Approval
Required
Who are the
Approvers
How is the
Policy
Applied in
the
Entitlement
Results When
the Item is
Requested in
the Service
Catalog
To manage
virtual
infrastructure
resources and
to control costs,
you add two
pre-approval
levels because
one approval is
for machine
resources and
the other is for
cost of machine
per day.
Service
Catalog -
Catalog Item
Request -
Virtual
Machine
Add To Pre
Approval tab
Level 1
Select
Required
based on
conditions.
Congure the
conditions
where CPUs >
6 or Memory >
8 or Storage >
100 GB.
Select
Determine
approvers
from the
request.
Select
condition
Requested by >
manager.
Select .
Click System
Properties and
select CPUs.
Memory, and
Storage so that
the approver
can change the
value to an
acceptable
level.
This
approval
policy can be
used in an
entitlement
where you
want the
requesting
user's
manager and
a member of
the nance
department
to approve
the request.
When the
service catalog
user requests a
virtual
machine, the
request is
evaluated to
determine
whether the
requested CPU,
memory, or
storage
amounts are
over the
amounts
specied in
level 1. If they
are not, then
the level 2
condition is
evaluated. If
the requests
exceeds at least
one of the level
1 conditions,
then the
manager must
approve the
request. The
manager has
the option to
decrease the
requested
conguration
amounts and
approve or the
manager can
reject the
request.
Level 2
Select
Required
based on
conditions.
Congure the
condition Cost
> 15.00 per
day.
Select 
Users and
Groups.
Select the
nance custom
users group.
Select Anyone
can approve.
Example of Actions with Approval Policies Applied in a Composite Deployment
When you apply approval policies to actions that can run on various components in a composite blueprint,
the approval process varies depending on how the entitlement is congured and how the approval policies
are applied.
This example uses specic details to build the blueprint and then apply approval policies to actions that you
can run from the service catalog on the provisioned blueprint in dierent entitlements. The blueprint is a
composite blueprint that includes another blueprint. The actions used are to destroy the provisioned items,
destroy a deployment for the blueprints and destroy a virtual machine for the machine. The resulting
behavior includes what is destroyed and when the applied approval policies trigger approval requests.
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