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An advanced external service includes options for provider specifications that add support for multiple
providers of the external service. After the advanced external service property values are defined in the
provider specification, these values are populated in the external service instance when you map that
instance to a deployment environment. For example, an external Oracle database can be provisioned and
configured through VMWare Data Director or Amazon RDS. The external load balancer in an application
can be implemented with an F5 load balancer instance or a software load balancer such as an Apache
server.
You can share an external service publicly or privately in a group. Sharing is supported at the component
level and not at the individual version level. When you share an external service, the external service
instance profile are not shared. Each group must define an external service instance profile in its
deployment environment.
Prerequisites
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Log in to Application Services as an application cloud administrator and an application publisher
and deployer.
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Verify whether you must add items to the operating systems and descriptive tag lists. See Add
Operating Systems to the Library and Add Tags to the Library.
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To view examples about how to name or describe an external service, select Library > External
Services to view the predefined external services.
Procedure
1 On the Application Services title bar, click the drop-down menu and select Library > External
Services.
2 Click New.
3 Set the name of the external service, add a description, and click Save.
Use a name that corresponds to the server or database that you are
4 Click Create External Service Version to create an external service version.
You can create multiple versions for an external service.
5 In the dialog box, select Basic or Advanced and click OK .
6 Complete the external service version information.
The external service version name stays the same.
a Specify major, minor, or micro release versions, with or without qualifiers.
For example, you might use version numbers such as 1.0, 1.5, or 1.0.1-Dev.
b (Optional) In the Description section, if you are creating an external service version for a specific
database, describe the database version used and any applicable required configuration.
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