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What to do next
After you verify your work by provisioning the CentOS with MySQL catalog item, you can add additional
users to the entitlement to make the catalog item publicly available to your development and quality
engineering users. If you want to further govern the provisioning of resources in your environment, you
can create approval policies for the MySQL Software component and the CentOS for Software Testing
machine. See Scenario: Create and Apply CentOS with MySQL Approval Policies.
Scenario: Create and Apply CentOS with MySQL Approval Policies
As the tenant administrator for the development and quality engineering business group, you want to
apply strict governance to catalog item requests. Before your users can provision the CentOS with
MySQL catalog item, you want your vSphere virtual infrastructure administrator to approve the machine
request and you want your software manager to approve the software request.
You create and apply one approval policy for the vSphere CentOS with MySQL service catalog request to
require approval for the machine by a vSphere virtual infrastructure administrator based on specific
conditions, and another approval policy for the MySQL Software component to require approval by your
software manager for every request.
Approval administrators can only create the approvals, and a business group managers can apply them
to entitlements. As a tenant administrator, you can both create the approvals and apply them to
entitlements.
Prerequisites
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Log in to the vRealize Automation console as a tenant administrator. Only a tenant administrator
can both create and apply approval policies.
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Ensure that the CentOS with MySQL catalog item is included in a service. See Scenario: Make the
CentOS with MySQL Application Blueprint Available in the Service Catalog.
Procedure
1 Scenario: Create a CentOS with MySQL Virtual Machine Approval Policy
As the tenant administrator you want to ensure that the development and quality engineering group
receives virtual machines that are properly provisioned in your environment, so you create an
approval policy that requires pre approval for certain types of requests.
2 Scenario: Create a MySQL Software Component Approval Policy
As the tenant administrator, your software managers asked you to create and apply approval
policies for MySQL installations to track licensing usage. You create a policy to notify the software
license manager whenever the MySQL for Linux Virtual Machines Software component is requested.
3 Scenario: Apply Approval Policies to CentOS with MySQL Components
As the tenant administrator, you can create approval policies and entitlements. You modify the Dev
and QE entitlement to apply the approval policies that you created so that approvals are triggered
when a service catalog user requests the item.
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