Creating a Websphere 7 on Windows 2008 R2 service offering

This topic describes the tasks that you must perform in BMC Cloud Lifecycle Management to create the service offering that the end user can then use to provision the application infrastructure (for example, an OS and an application package). It includes the following topics:

To create the service and the service offering

In the BMC Cloud Lifecycle Management Administrator console, you must add a service and a service offering.

To create a service

1. From the BMC Cloud Lifecycle Management Administration Console, click the vertical Workspaces menu on the left side of the window, and click Service Catalog.
2. In the Service Catalog, click Create a New Service.
3. Enter the service name.
4. For Type, select a service type.
   • Business service — Services that customers use and that show the customer view of services, such as email or an online store.

   • Technical service — Supporting IT and infrastructure resources required to support business services that are not visible to customers, such as servers, applications, and network CIs.

     Note

     After you select the type and save the service, you cannot change the type.

5. Enter a description of the service.
6. Do one of the following actions:
   • To create the service offering, click Apply.
   • To create the service offering later, click Save to save your selections and close the window.

To create a service offering

1. From the BMC Cloud Lifecycle Management Administration Console, click the vertical Workspaces menu on the left side of the window, and click Service Catalog.
2. From the Service Catalog, edit or create a service.
   In the Service Offering tab, a default service offering is available, which you can edit.
3. Click Create a New Service Offering.

4. In the General Information tab, define the options described in the following table. 

   Option	Description
   Default Service Offering	Enable this option to make the selected service offering the default for the service. Unless users select a different service offering, the default service offering is used.
   Name	A short, descriptive name for the service offering.
   Description	A more detailed description of the service offering.
   Service Blueprint	Specify the software and hardware to associate with the service offering by selecting one of the available blueprints.
   Service Deployment Definition	Specify how to deploy the selected service blueprint. From the list, select a service deployment definition that is available for the chosen service blueprint.

5. Add a Base Customer Price to define the amount charged to the customer for the service offering.
6. Add a Base Deployment Cost to define the amount that it costs to provide the service offering.
7. Click Apply.
   This action activates the Options tab. You now also can create a requestable offering (for example, a request definition or a post-deploy action). For additional information, see Creating a requestable offering in the BMC Cloud Lifecycle Management online technical documentation.

To make the provisioning request

1. Access Workspaces > Service Instances to display the Service Instances workspace, and click New Service Request.
   
   
2. In the New Service Request dialog box, click the server provisioning service you want to display the Submit Request dialog box.
   
   
3. Enter the data in the required fields to complete the request for an instance of the service request. You can click Next to review the details.
4. Click Submit. The request is added to the Pending Activity list in the Service Instances window.

The request status is displayed in the Pending Activity list of the Service Instances window. You can double-click on the service request to see its detailed information.

For more detailed procedures, see Requesting cloud services.

To validate the provisioned components

After provisioning the blueprint, you can validate the WebSphere on Windows components setup in your environment.

Where to go next

After you have created the service offering, the cloud end user can request a service offering from the My Cloud Services console. To view a list of tasks that the cloud end user can perform to manage your cloud services, see Managing cloud services in the BMC Cloud Lifecycle Management online technical documentation.