Onboarding and offboarding network pods

Pods represent a portion of the cloud bound by a set of physical network devices such as routers, firewalls, and load balancers. For overview information about network resources, see Network-resources-overview.

You must onboard one or more network pods to make BMC Cloud Lifecycle Management aware of the network environment.

This topic contains the following sections:

• • Before you begin
  • To onboard a pod
  • To offboard a pod
  • Related topics

Before you begin

One or more pods must be configured in BMC Network Automation.

To onboard a pod

After onboarding a pod and onboarding network container blueprints, you can continue setting up resources by importing network containers, creating network containers, and onboarding compute resources in the BMC Cloud Lifecycle Management Administration console.

To offboard a pod

You can offboad a pod that is no longer being used in the cloud.

1. From the BMC Cloud Lifecycle Management Administration Console, click the vertical Workspaces menu on the left side of the window and select Resources.
2. Under Quick Links on the left, click Pods under the General section.
    The list of onboarded pods is displayed.
3. Select the pod that you want to offboard.
4. Click the Offboard Pod icon .
    The Offboard Pod confirmation dialog box is displayed.
5. Click Yes to offboard the selected Pod and close the dialog box.

After the activity is marked as complete, you can click the Refresh icon in the upper-right corner of the window to refresh the Pods table so that the newly onboarded pods appear in the table.

Related topics

Network-resources-overview
 Onboarding-compute-resources
 Editing-and-removing-resources
 Adding-compute-resources-to-compute-resource-pools