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4 Configure the Level Information tab with the triggering criteria and the approval actions.
a In the Name text box, enter MySQL software deployment notice.
b In the Description text box, enter Software mgr approval of software installation.
c Select Always required.
d Select Specific Users and Groups.
e
Enter the name of the software manager in the search text box and click the search icon ( ) and
select the user.
f Select Anyone can approve.
The request only needs one software manager to approve the request.
Click OK.
5 Click OK.
You created the approval policies for virtual machines and for MySQL for Linux Virtual Machines Software
components. Until you apply the approval policies to an entitlement, no approvals are triggered.
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.
While it might be easier to entitle the entire catalog service to your business group, it does not allow you
to have the same control and governance as when you create individual entitlements for catalog items.
For example, if you entitle users to a service, they can request any catalog items that are in the service
and all items that are added to the service in the future. It also means that you can only use very high-
level approval policies that apply to every catalog item in the service, such as always requiring approval
from a manager. If you choose to entitle catalog items individually, you can create and apply very specific
approval policies for each item and tightly control who can request which items in the service. If you
choose to entitle the individual components of catalog items individually, you can have even greater
control.
If you do not know what approval policies you want to apply to items in an entitlement, you can return
later and apply them. In this scenario, you apply different approval policies to two components of the
same published application blueprint.
Procedure
1 Select Administration > Catalog Management > Entitlements.
2 Click the Dev and QE Entitlement.
3 Click the Items and Approvals tab.
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