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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.
4 Add the CentOS with MySQL machine and apply the approval policy.
a
Click the Add Items icon ( ) beside the Entitled Items heading.
b Select the CentOS with MySQL check box.
c Click the Apply this policy to selected items drop-down arrow.
The CentOS on vSphere CPU and Memory policy is not in the list.
d Click Show all and click the down-arrow to view all approval policies.
e Select CentOS on vSphere CPU and Memory [Service Catalog - Catalog Item Request -
Virtual Machine].
The vSphere CentOS machine is a machine blueprint in an application blueprint. Review the
policy names so that you select the one that is appropriate to your catalog item type. If you apply
the wrong policy, the approval policy fails or triggers approval requests based on incorrect
conditions.
f Click OK.
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