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2 Create an Approval Level on page 377
When you create an approval policy, you can add pre-approval and post-approval levels.
3 Congure the Approval Form to Include System and Custom Properties on page 378
You can add system and custom properties that appear on an approval form. You add these properties
so that the approvers can change the values of system properties for machine resource seings such as
CPU, lease, or memory, and custom properties before they complete an approval request.
4 Approval Policy Seings on page 379
When you create an approval policy, you congure various options that determine when an item
requested by a service catalog users must be approved. The approval can be required before the
request begins provisioning or after the item is provisioned but before it is released to the requesting
user.
Specify Approval Policy Information
When you create an approval policy, dene the approval policy type, name, description, and status.
Prerequisites
Log in to the vRealize Automation console as a tenant administrator or approval administrator.
Procedure
1 Select Administration > Approval Policies.
2
Click the New icon ( ).
3 Select a policy type or software component.
Option Description
Select an approval policy type
Create an approval policy based on the policy request type.
Select this option to dene an approval policy that is applicable to all
catalog items of that type. The request type can be a generic request, a
catalog item request, or a resource action request.
The available condition conguration options vary depending on the type.
The more specic the type the more specic the conguration elds. For
example, Service Catalog - Catalog Item Request provides only the elds
that are common to all catalog item requests, but a Service Catalog -
Catalog Item Request - Virtual Machine also includes the common options
and options specic to virtual machines.
The request type limits the catalog items or actions to which you can apply
the approval policy.
Select an item
Create an approval policy based on a specic item.
Select this option to dene an approval policy that is applicable to specic
items that are not available as individual items in the service catalog, only
as part of a machine or other deployment. For example, software
components.
The available condition conguration elds are specic to the item and can
be more detailed than the criteria oered for a policy type item.
List
Lists the available policy type or catalog items.
Search or sort the columns to locate a specic item or type.
4 Click OK.
5 Enter a name and, optionally, a description.
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