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6 Select the state of the policy from the Status drop-down menu.
Option Description
Draft
Saves the approval policy in an editable state.
Active
Saves the approval policy in a read-only state that you can use in an
entitlement.
Inactive
Saves the approval policy in a read-only state that you cannot use in an
entitlement until you activate the policy.
What to do next
Create the pre-approval and post-approval levels.
Create an Approval Level
When you create an approval policy, you can add pre-approval and post-approval levels.
You can create multiple approval levels for an approval policy. When a service catalog user requests an item
to which an approval policy with multiple levels is applied, each the rst level must be accepted before the
approval request is sent to the next approver. See “Working with Approval Policies,” on page 369.
Prerequisites
“Specify Approval Policy Information,” on page 376.
Procedure
1
On the Pre Approval or Post Approval tab, click the New icon ( ).
2 Enter a name and, optionally, a description.
3 Select an approval requirement.
Option Description
Always Required
The approval policy is triggered for every request.
Required based on conditions
The approval policy is based on one or more condition clauses.
If you select this option, you must create the conditions. When this
approval policy is applied to eligible services, catalog items, or actions in
an entitlement, then the conditions are evaluated. If the conditions are true,
then the request must be approved by the specied approver method
before it is provisioned. If the conditions are false, then the request is
provisioned without requiring an approval. For example, any requests for
a virtual machine with 4 or more CPUs must be approved by the virtual
infrastructure administrator.
The availability of the elds on which to base the conditions is determined
by the selected approval policy type or catalog item.
When you enter a value for a condition, the values are case-sensitive.
To congure more than one condition clause, select the Boolean operation
for the clauses.
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