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Scenario: Create a Catalog Service for Rainpole Blueprint Testing
Using your tenant administrator privileges, you create a catalog service called Rainpole service. You assign
yourself as the owner and support contact for this service, so your Rainpole architects can contact you with
any problems.
Procedure
1 Select Administration > Catalog Management > Services.
2
Click the New icon (
).
3 Enter the name Rainpole service.
4 In the Status drop-down menu, select Active.
5 As the tenant administrator who is creating the service, use the search option to add yourself as the
Owner and Support Team.
6 Click OK.
What to do next
Using your tenant administrator privileges, add the published vSphere CentOS machine blueprint to your
Rainpole service.
Scenario: Add Your vSphere CentOS Catalog Item to the Rainpole Service
Using your tenant administrator privileges, you add the published vSphere CentOS machine blueprint to
your Rainpole service.
All published blueprints that you want to provision must be part of a service as a catalog item, but each
blueprint can only be a catalog item in one service at a time. If you need to publish to multiple catalog
services at the same time, create copies of your blueprint.
Procedure
1 Select Administration > Catalog Management > Services.
2 In the Services list, select the Blueprint Testing row and click Manage Catalog Items.
3
Click the New icon ( ).
4 Select the check box for CentOS on vSphere.
Only published blueprints and components that are not yet associated with a service appear in the list.
If you do not see the blueprint, verify that it was published or that it is not included in another service.
5 Click OK.
6 Click Close.
What to do next
Using your tenant administrator privileges, entitle your Rainpole architects to request catalog items from the
Rainpole service.
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