6.2
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
Prerequisites
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Log in to the vRealize Automation console as a tenant administrator or approval administrator.
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Verify that a service architect created and published an advanced service blueprint. See Create a
Service Blueprint and Publish a Service Blueprint as a Catalog Item.
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Verify that a service architect created and published a custom resource action. See Create a
Resource Action and Publish a Resource Action.
Procedure
1 Specify Approval Policy Information
When you create an approval policy, first define the approval policy information, such as policy type,
name, description, and status.
2 Create an Approval Level
When you create an approval policy, you can add levels for both pre- and post-provisioning phases
within the provisioning workflow.
You created an approval policy. You can use it when you create an entitlement.
Specify Approval Policy Information
When you create an approval policy, first define the approval policy information, such as policy type,
name, description, and status.
Procedure
1 Select Administration > Approval Policies.
2
Click Add ( ).
3 Select a policy type from the Policy Type drop-down menu.
Option Description
Service Catalog - Catalog Item Request
- Advanced Service Blueprint
Applies the policy to a catalog item that you created by publishing an advanced
service blueprint.
Service Catalog - Resource Action
Request -
your_custom_resource_action
Applies the policy to a resource action that a service architect created by using
Advanced Service Designer. The resource action can be any custom resource
action, including resource actions for managing IaaS-provisioned vSphere virtual
machines.
4 Click OK.
5 Enter a name and, optionally, a description.
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