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Table Of Contents
- Advanced Service Design
- Contents
- Advanced Service Design
- Updated Information for Advanced Service Design
- Using the Goal Navigator
- Introduction to VMware vRealize Orchestrator
- Configuring vRealize Orchestrator and Plug-Ins
- Authoring Services with Advanced Service Designer
- Advanced Service Designer Basics
- Creating an Advanced Service Overview
- Create a Custom Resource
- Create a Service Blueprint
- Publish a Service Blueprint as a Catalog Item
- Create a Resource Action
- Publish a Resource Action
- Assign an Icon to a Resource Action
- Create a Service
- Associate a Catalog Item with a Service
- Create an Approval Policy for Advanced Service Blueprints and Actions
- Entitle a Service, Catalog Items, and Actions to a User or a Group of Users
- Extending Operations on Resources Provisioned by Other Sources
- Importing and Exporting Advanced Service Designer Components
- Form Designer
- Advanced Service Designer Examples and Scenarios
- Create a Service for Creating and Modifying a User
- Create a Test User as a Custom Resource
- Create a Service Blueprint for Creating a User
- Publish the Create a User Blueprint as a Catalog Item
- Create a Resource Action to Change a User Password
- Publish the Change a Password Resource Action
- Create a Service for Creating a Test User
- Associate the Catalog Item with the Create a Test User Service
- Entitle the Service and the Resource Action to a Consumer
- Create and Publish an Action to Migrate a Virtual Machine
- Create an Action to Migrate a Virtual Machine With vMotion
- Create and Publish an Action to Take a Snapshot
- Create and Publish an Action to Start an Amazon Virtual Machine
- Creating a Data Refresh Service Offering
- Create a Service for Creating and Modifying a User
Create a Custom Resource
To create an advanced service for provisioning, you must create a custom resource to define the item for
provisioning.
By creating a custom resource, you map as a resource an object type exposed through the API of a
vRealize Orchestrator plug-in. You create a custom resource to define the output parameter of a service
blueprint for provisioning and to define an input parameter of a resource action. If you do not create a
custom resource, the service blueprint does not provision items on the Items tab and you cannot define
post-provisioning operations for the provisioned items.
During the process of creating a custom resource, on the Details Form page, you can specify the fields of
the read-only form for the resource that displays information on the details view of a provisioned item.
See Designing a Custom Resource Form.
Prerequisites
Log in to the vRealize Automation console as a service architect.
Procedure
1 Select Advanced Services > Custom Resources.
2
Click Add ( ).
3 Enter the vRealize Orchestrator object type In the Orchestrator Type text box and press Enter.
4 Enter a name and, optionally, a description.
5 Click Next.
6 Edit the form of the custom resource.
You can edit the custom resource form by deleting, editing, and rearranging elements. You can also
add a new form and form pages and drag elements to the new form and form page.
Option Description
Add a form
Click the New Form icon ( ) next to the form name, provide the required
information, and click Submit.
Add a form page
Click the New Page icon ( ) next to the form page name, provide the required
information, and click Submit.
Add an element to the form page Drag an element from the New Fields pane on the left to the pane on the right.
You can then provide the required information and click Submit.
The available elements are specific for the vRealize Orchestrator object type.
Edit an element
Click the Edit icon ( ) next to the element to edit, make the necessary changes,
and click Submit.
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