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When you entitle service catalog users to the Change Lease, Change Owner, Expire, Reconfigure
and other actions that can apply to machines and to deployments, entitle them to both actions.
Approval Policies in Entitlements
Approval policies are applied in entitlements so that you can manage resources in your environment.
To apply an approval policy when you create the entitlement, the policy must already exist. If it does not,
you can still create the entitlement and leave it in a draft or inactive state until you create the approval
policies needed for the catalog items and actions in this entitlement, and then apply the policies later.
You are not required to apply an approval policy to any of the items or actions. If no approval policy is
applied, the items and actions are deployed when requested without triggering an approval request.
Entitle Users to Services, Catalog Items, and Actions
When you add a service, catalog item, or action to an entitlement, you allow the users identified in the
entitlement to request the provisionable items in the service catalog. Actions are associated with items
and appear on the Items tab for the requesting user.
There are several user roles with permission to create entitlements for business groups.
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Tenant administrators can create entitlements for any business group in their tenant.
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Business group managers can create entitlements for the groups that they manage.
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Catalog administrators can create entitlements for any business group in their tenant.
When you create an entitlement, you must select a business group and the members in the business
group for the entitlement.
To understand how to create an entitlement so that you can use the interactions of services, catalog
items, and actions with approvals, see Creating Entitlements.
Prerequisites
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Log in to the vRealize Automation console as a tenant administrator or catalog administrator.
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Verify that the catalog items to which you are entitling users are associated with a service. See Add
Catalog Items to a Service.
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Verify that the business group for which you are defining the entitlement exists and that the member
users and user groups are defined. See Create a Business Group.
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Verify that the approval policies exist if you plan to add approvals when you create this entitlement.
See Create an Approval Policy. If you want to entitle users to the items in the service catalog without
approvals, you can modify the entitlement later to add approvals.
Procedure
1 Select Administration > Catalog Management > Entitlements.
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Click the New icon ( ).
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