Overview of workspaces

Administration overview topics provide an overview of the BMC Cloud Lifecycle Management Administration Console user interface and its features. The BMC Cloud Lifecycle Management Administration Console provides access to cloud administrator features through separate workspaces:

• Quick Start workspace: Provides a wizard-based approach to performing the configuration needed to provision virtual machines
• Dashboards workspace: Provides data charts that display cloud usage metrics
• Service Instances workspace: Provides access to the BMC Cloud Lifecycle Management My Cloud Services Console so that the cloud administrator can request cloud services and view cloud services requested by cloud users
• Service Catalog workspace: Provides access to the Service Catalog, where the cloud administrator can create service offerings and group service offerings into packages for tenants
• Service Designer workspace: Enables the cloud administrator to create service blueprints to use when creating a service offering in the Service Catalog
• Network Designer workspace: Enables the cloud administrator to create, edit, and delete network blueprints
• Tenants workspace: Enables the cloud administrator to onboard and manage tenants and to manage tenant access to requestable software
• Service Governor workspace: Enables the cloud administrator to create placement policies that determine which resources are used when a service is requested
• Resources workspace: Enables the cloud administrator to onboard and manage cloud resources that are used when a service is requested
• Providers workspace: Enables the cloud administrator to register resource providers that supply resources for the cloud
• Configuration workspace: Provides access to BMC Cloud Lifecycle Management Administration Console initial configuration options
• Audit Trail workspace: Enables the cloud administrator to view and search live and archived pending activity records for all workspaces and enables you to monitor the health status of DSO and the Reconciliation Engine.

Accessing workspaces

To access the workspaces, click the vertical Workspaces menu on the left, shown in the following figure, and select a workspace.

Related topics

• Quick Start workspace overview
• Dashboards workspace overview
• Service Instances workspace overview
• Service Catalog workspace overview
• Service Designer workspace overview
• Network Designer workspace overview
• Tenant management workspace overview
• Service Governor workspace overview
• Resource management workspace overview
• Providers workspace overview
• Configuration workspace overview
• Audit Trail workspace overview