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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
5 Enter a name and, optionally, a description.
The Name and Description text boxes are prepopulated with the name and description of the
workflow as they are defined in vRealize Orchestrator.
6 (Optional) If you do not want to prompt consumers to enter a description and reason for requesting
this resource action, select the Hide catalog request information page check box.
7 Click Next.
8 (Optional) Edit the form of the service blueprint on the Blueprint Form page.
By default, the service blueprint form is mapped to the vRealize Orchestrator workflow presentation.
You can edit the blueprint form by deleting, editing, and rearranging the elements in the form. You can
also add a new form and form pages and drag elements to the new form and form page.
Option Action
Add a form
Click the New Form icon ( ) next to the form name, provide the required
information, and click Submit.
Edit a form
Click the Edit icon ( ) next to the form name, make the necessary changes,
and click Submit.
Regenerate the workflow presentation
Click the Rebuild icon ( ) next to the form name and click OK.
Delete a form
Click the Delete icon ( ) next to the form name, and in the confirmation dialog
box click OK.
Add a form page
Click the New Page icon ( ) next to the form page name, provide the required
information, and click Submit.
Edit a form page
Click the Edit icon ( ) next to the form page name, make the necessary
changes, and click Submit.
Delete a form page
Click the Delete icon ( ) next to the form name, and in the confirmation dialog
box click OK.
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.
Edit an element
Click the Edit icon ( ) next to the element to edit, make the necessary changes,
and click Submit.
Delete an element
Click the Delete icon ( ) next to the element to delete, and in the confirmation
dialog box click OK.
9 Click Next.
10 Select an output parameter from the drop-down menu.
Option Description
A custom resource that you previously
created
When users request this catalog item, the provisioned items are stored on the
Items tab.
No provisioning The service blueprint does not add new items on the Items tab.
11 Click Add.
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