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Table Of Contents
- Using Application Services
- Contents
- Using Application Services
- Updated Information
- Introducing Application Services
- Install and Configure Application Services
- Installing Application Services
- Preparing to Install Application Services
- Start the Application Services Appliance
- Troubleshooting Problems Connecting to the Application Services Web Interface
- Unlock Your darwin_user Account
- Restart Application Services
- Configure Application Services to Use a Proxy for External URLs
- Register Application Services to vRealize Automation
- Upgrading Application Services
- Setting Up Users and Groups
- Using Tenants and Business Groups in Application Services
- Import Predefined Content to a Tenant
- Using the Application Services Web Interface
- Setting Up Application Provisioning for the Application Services Environment
- Virtual Machine Requirements for Creating vRealize Automation Custom Templates
- Creating Virtual Machine Templates in vRealize Automation
- Updating Existing Virtual Machine Templates in vRealize Automation
- Register the vRealize Automation Cloud Provider and Template
- Create a vRealize Automation Deployment Environment
- Setting Up Application Provisioning for the vCloud Director Environment
- Virtual Machine Requirements for Creating vCloud Director Custom Templates
- Creating Windows Virtual Machine Templates in vCloud Director
- Create Linux Virtual Machine Templates in vCloud Director
- Verify Cloud Template Configuration from the vCloud Director Catalog
- Updating Existing Virtual Machine Templates in vCloud Director
- Exporting Virtual Machine Templates with OVF Format
- Register the vCloud Director Cloud Provider and Template
- Create a vCloud Director Deployment Environment
- Setting Up Application Provisioning for the Amazon EC2 Environment
- Developing Application Services Components
- Managing the Application Services Library
- Creating Applications
- Working with Artifacts
- Deploying Applications
- Setting Up and Configuring a Deployment Profile
- Deploying with Deployment Profiles
- Publishing Deployment Profiles to the vCloud Automation Center Service Catalog
- Request a vRealize Automation Service Catalog Item
- Using the Deployment Summary Page
- Using the Composite Deployment Summary Page
- Understanding the Deployment and Update Process
- Understanding Deployment Failures
- Updating Application Deployments
- Initiate an Update Process to Scale Out Deployments
- Initiate an Update Process to Scale In Deployments
- Initiate an Update Process to Modify Configurations
- Use an Existing Update Profile
- Promote an Update Profile
- Rollback an Update Process
- Understanding Run Custom Task Update
- Troubleshoot Failed Update Process to Scale Deployments
- Troubleshoot Failed Update Process to Modify Configuration
- Deploying Predefined Library Components
- Managing Deployments
- View Deployment Task and Blueprint Details for an Application
- View Deployed VM Details and Execution Plan of an Application
- Start a Policy Scan
- Tear Down an Application from the Cloud
- Scale In Deployments from vCloud Automation Center
- Scale Out Deployments from vCloud Automation Center
- Tear Down an Application from vCloud Automation Center
- Delete an Application Deployment from Application Services
- Cancel a Deployment or an Update Process
- View Policy Compliance Summary
- Using the Application Services CLI
- Using the CLI Import and Export Functions
10 Select the Overridable in Blueprint check box to allow users such as an application architect to
override the value for the property in an application blueprint.
If the property type is Computed, the Overridable in Blueprint check box is not applicable.
If a property is not overridable in the blueprint, you cannot set the Auto-Bind type to Consume.
For example, the application catalog administrator might configure the vFabric tc Server service to
have a JVM heap size of 512MB. But for large deployments, the application architect might change
the setting to 1024MB.
11 Click Delete to remove the selected row from the Properties section.
12 (Optional) Click Reset to revert to the original property value.
13 Click Upload to import the property values to a selected CSV file.
14 Save your external service property definitions.
What to do next
Specifying external service definitions has no impact on deployments unless you create an external
service instance in a deployment environment to enable the external service definitions on all of the
deployments under the deployment environment. See Map an External Service Instance.
Create provider specification for the custom external service version. See Create Provider Specification
for an Advanced External Service Version.
Create Provider Speciļ¬cation for an Advanced External Service
Version
An advanced external service requires you to create a provider specification. This specification is a set of
one or more scripts that defines how an external service can be configured, updated, rolled back, and
torn down in various service provider environments such as VMware Data Director or Amazon RDS. The
provider specification also has properties that you can define to connect to the provider and the provider
specific parameters.
You can view examples about how to create a provider specification for an external service from the
Library > External Services page.
You can change only the group membership settings for the external service. The new membership
settings are then propagated to the service provider specifications of the external service.
User cannot update group membership of the service provider spec separately.
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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Familiarize yourself with the basic concepts of defining and configuring component properties and
actions. See Chapter 12 Developing Application Services Components.
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