Access attributes for service providers and cloud services

Creates software resources.

Valid values: true, false (default)

For any placement advice call, you can configure only one disambiguation rule. 

Each disambiguation rule can have multiple mappings; once an expression evaluates to true and the target provider definition is identified, the remaining expressions are not evaluated, the first match is returned.

Provider disambiguation is triggered only if multiple providers, which support the same provided operation are registered and the associated PeerHint attribute with the placement advice is set to false in the providers.json file.

If the placement advice is not handled by Resource Management (RM) provider, you should set this attribute to false for Virtual Cluster, Virtual Resource Pool, or Virtual Host.

Valid values: true (default), false

For any placement advice call, you can configure only one disambiguation rule. 

Each disambiguation rule can have multiple mappings; once an expression evaluates to true and the target provider definition is identified, the remaining expressions are not evaluated, the first match is returned.

Provider disambiguation is triggered only if multiple providers, which support the same provided operation are registered and the associated PeerHint attribute with the placement advice is set to false in the providers.json file.

If the placement advice is not handled by Resource Management (RM) provider, you should set this attribute to false for Virtual Datastore

Valid values: true (default), false

Enforces connectivity check between the network and cluster or host.

If this attribute is set to true, placement of compute pool logic selects only that cluster or host that has switch connectivity to eligible networks.

Valid values: true, false (default)

Forces IP address refresh irrespective of load balancer, firewall, and network path associations

If the server is in a powered off state, the Synchronize action is successful. However, changes to IP addresses are not updated. If the NIC is associated with a load balancer, a firewall rule, or a network path, by default the IP address changes are not updated.

Valid values: true, false (default)

Specifies the number of threads per processor that the Activity Failure email engine should use to send troubleshooting mails.

Valid value: Integer, 3 (default)

Specifies the maximum number of threads that the Activity Failure email engine should use to send troubleshooting mails.

Valid value: Integer, 16 (default)

Specifies the SMTP server host name that is used to send email alerts.

Specifies the SMTP server port used to send email alerts.

Valid value: Integer, 25 (default)

Indicates whether to use authentication for SMTP connection.

Valid values: true, false (default)

Specifies the SMTP username in case authentication is required.

Specifies the SMTP password in case authentication is required.

Specifies the sender's email address.

Specifies the Java SMTP mail configuration.

Valid value: String, javax.net.SocketFactory (default)

Set this attribute to javax.net.ssl.SSLSocketFactory if the SMTP server uses SSL authentication; otherwise, use javax.net.SocketFactory.

Indicates whether to enable TLS encryption.

Valid values: true, false (default)

Specifies the SSL socket port if the SMTP server uses SSL authentication.

Valid value: Integer, 9090 (default)

Specifies whether server provisioning should be enrolled in BMC Server Automation after the Update Server Properties (USP) job is completed successfully and the agent is validated. Currently, a user can enroll Amazon Web Services (AWS) instances by using the IP address or the host name.

Valid values: true, false

Validates the agent status in BMC Server Automation by using the agentinfo command.

Valid values: true, false

Indicates that no cleaning activity (rollback) must be performed when an AWS instance provisioning fails.

Valid values: true, false (default)

Use peer hint for Logical Load Balancer placement decisions during provisioning flow.

Valid values: true (default), false

Use peer hint for Logical Network placement decisions during provisioning flow.

Valid values: true (default), false

Declares the cloud platforms supported by the proxy provider.This feature is not fully implemented in the blueprint.

Valid value: String, amazon (default)

(Optional) Specifies the host name or IP address to use when connecting through a proxy.

Valid value: String

(Optional) Specifies the port to use when connecting through a proxy.

Valid value: Integer, 8888 (default)

(Optional) Specifies the user name to use when connecting through a proxy.

(Optional) Specifies the password to use when connecting through a proxy.

(Optional) Specifies the Windows domain name for configuring NTLM proxy support.

Valid value: String

(Optional) Specifies the Windows workstation name for configuring NTLM proxy support.

Valid value: String

Indicates whether to route requests to Amazon via a proxy.

Valid values: true, false (default)

Specifies the AWS Status Poll Count.

Valid value: Integer, 10 (default)

Specifies the maximum of number of retries before giving up when fetching a performance metric from AWS.

Valid value: Integer, 3 (default)

Specifies the factor in terms of percentage (%) by which the prefetch threads should be reduced when throttling errors are encountered.

Valid value: Integer, 5 (default)

Indicates whether to collect metrics for Value dashboards.

Valid values: true (default), false

Defines the start date from which Value dashboard metrics must be populated.

Depending on your setup, you can configure this attribute to a higher value.This value is applied only when you first start the Platform Manager.

Default: 18 months

Denotes the frequency at which expired Value Time entries that record the values of Dashboard metrics at a given time for a given frequency should be deleted.

Valid values: days, months, year

Example: “DAILY=15days,WEEKLY=3months,MONTHLY=6months,QUARTERLY=3years”.

Specifies the time in days to run the purge task, which cleans up all expired Value Time records.

Valid value: String, 14 (default)

Specifies the time in minutes to run the refresh task, which updates the metrics on the Dashboard.

Valid value: String, 15 (default)

Indicates whether to bypass or continue cleaning activity (rollback) when Service Offering Instance (SOI) provisioning or decomissioning fails.

Valid values: true (default), false

Indicates whether to continue clean or decommission flow when SOI creation fails.

Valid values: true (default), false

• True invokes clean flow
• False prevents clean up of resources and the SOI remains in a failed state, later it invokes decommission flow

Indicates whether to reattempt SOI provisioning when SOI creation fails.

Valid values: true (default), false

Specifies the maximum number of times the BMC Cloud Lifecycle Management Platform should poll for completion of any automated actions that might be running in the background (in-flight actions), before it continues with user-specified operations like decommission a service or transfer ownership of a service.

Monitoring policies and auto-scale actions can be configured on a service or SOI. These policies and actions are automated rules, which are evaluated in the background. The auto-scale actions (like add a server, remove a server, add/remove CPU/Memory) can be time-consuming tasks. While these background actions are in progress, a user might perform operations like transfer ownership, decommission a service, and so on, which would cause the resources to go into an inconsistent state. This attribute guards the system from such a state.

Valid value: Integer

Specifies the interval in seconds between retries or subsequent pools to check for in-flight action completion.

This is a supplementary attribute to the maxRetriesForInFlightActions attribute. Combined together, these determine the total time the user-initiated actions (like decommissions, transfer ownership) will wait for automated actions to finish.

Valid value: Integer

WLM

SOIPendingAdminTimeout

Time to wait (in seconds) until SOIs in Pending state are automatically marked as failed.

(4.5 patch 3 and later) Specifies whether the server, which is in Stopped state must be started after applying TRO options.

If this flag is enabled, the server is started, else it is not started.

Valid values: true (default), false

(4.5 patch 3 and later) Specifies whether the server, which is in Running state must be stopped before applying TRO options that require a stopped server.

• If this flag is enabled and the server is in Running state before applying TRO options that require a stopped server, the server is stopped.
• If this flag is disabled, the TRO fails.

If server is in Stopped state, no action is taken.

Valid values: true, false (default)

Use peer hint for Logical Hosting Environment (LHE) placement decisions during provisioning flow.

Valid values: true (default), false

Valid values: true, false

Defines the interval in seconds at which the prefetch cache should be inspected to find out metrics that need new data points to be queried from the target environment.

Specifies the period in seconds to consider as tolerance when comparing time stamps and fetching metric values.

This attribute specifies the time stamp skew between the Platform Manager host, Virtual Center host, and the browser GUI computer that is permissible so as to be able to successfully view Service Health charts and evaluate monitoring policies.

Specifies the maximum of number of threads for prefetching data from VMware VCenter(s).

This attribute specifies the maximum number of threads to be created in a pool that are used to periodically query metric data from target environments and keep the cache updated with latest data points for metrics.

Specifies the authentication type to be used in BMC Server Automation SOAP requests and CLIs. Currently, the following types of authentication are supported:

• SRP = Secure Remote Password
• ADK_PASSWORD = Microsoft Windows Domain Authentication, with password
• LDAP = LDAP Authentication
• SECURID = RSA SecurID, with a fixed passcode

Specifies the BMC Server Automation user name used for user-level actions.

This user is referred for submitting provisioning requests to BMC Server Automation.

Specifies the BMC Server Automation password used for user-level actions.

This password is referred for submitting provisioning requests to BMC Server Automation.

BBSA_REGISTER_SERVERS_
BY_HOSTNAME

Indicates whether to enroll the host in BMC Server Automation by host name or IP address.

Valid values: true (BMC Server Automation enrolls the VM by host name), false (BMC Server Automation enrolls the VM by IP address)

BBSA_CLEANUP_SUCCESSFUL_
JOBS

Indicates whether BMC Server Automation should perform a cleanup after any BSA job such as NSH script, USP (Update Server Property), and so on executes successfully.

Valid values: true, false (default)

Indicates whether a BMC Server Automation job using the provided job status Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) is completed.

Valid values: true, false

BBSA_VG_JOB_STATUS_POLLS

Indicates whether a virtual guest (VG) job is completed in BMC Server Automation.

Valid values: true, false

BBSA_USP_JOB_STATUS_POLLS

Indicates whether an Update Server Property (USP) job is completed in BMC Server Automation.

Valid values: true, false

BBSA_SCRIPT_JOB_STATUS_
POLLS

Indicates whether an NSH scripts execution job is completed in BMC Server Automation.

Valid values: true, false

BBSA_SOFTWARE_JOB_STATUS_
POLLS

Indicates whether a software installation job for the server is completed in BMC Server Automation.

Valid values: true, false

BBSA_CACHE_REFRESH_TIME

BBSA_MAX_WEBSERVICES_
SESSIONS

Specifies the maximum number of active Web services sessions allowed in BMC Server Automation.

Indicates whether to continue decomissioning of an existing virtual guest if a failure occurs during post deployment of scripts (for example, user creation failure) at the BMC Server Automation level.

Valid values: true, false

Indicates whether to enable deletion of job history in BMC Server Automation.

Valid values: true, false

BBSA_JOB_DELETER_INITIAL_
DELAY

If BBSA_ENABLE_JOB_DELETION is true, this attribute specifies the delay in minutes after which job history is deleted in BMC Server Automation.

BBSA_JOB_DELETER_DELAY

If BBSA_ENABLE_JOB_DELETION is true, this attribute specifies the delay in hours after which job history is deleted in BMC Server Automation.

Specifies the period in days for which job history should be retained in BMC Server Automation.

Jobs older than the specified number of days are deleted.

BBSA_VG_AGENT_STATUS_
POLLS

Specifies the number of times BMC Cloud Lifecycle Management polls BMC Server Automation for a VG Agent job status.

Valid values: Integer, 240 (default)

BBSA_VERIFY_VG_SHUTDOWN_
POLLS

Specifies the number of times BMC Cloud Lifecycle Management polls BMC Server Automation for a VG Shutdown job status.

BBSA_JOB_START_POLL_INTERVAL_
SECONDS

Specifies the BMC Server Automation Job Start Poll Interval in seconds.

Valid values: Integer, 60 (default)

BBSA_VG_JOB_STATUS_POLL_
INTERVAL_SECONDS

Specifies the BMC Server Automation VG Job Status Poll Interval in seconds.

Valid values: Integer, 15 (default)

BBSA_USP_JOB_STATUS_POLL_
INTERVAL_SECONDS

Specifies the BMC Server Automation USP Job Status Poll Interval in seconds.

Valid values: Integer, 15 (default)

BBSA_SCRIPT_JOB_STATUS_POLL_
INTERVAL_SECONDS

Specifies the BMC Server Automation Script Job Status Poll Interval in seconds.

Valid values: Integer, 15 (default)

BBSA_SOFTWARE_JOB_STATUS_
POLL_INTERVAL_SECONDS

Specifies the BMC Server Automation Software Job Status Poll Interval in seconds.

Valid values: Integer, 15 (default)

BBSA_VG_AGENT_STATUS_POLL_
INTERVAL_SECONDS

Specifies the BMC Server Automation VG Agent Status Poll Interval in seconds.

Valid values: Integer, 15 (default)

BBSA_VERIFY_VG_SHUTDOWN_
POLL_INTERVAL_SECONDS

Specifies the BMC Server Automation Verify VG Shutdown Poll Interval in seconds.

Valid values: Integer, 30 (default)

BBSA_ENABLE_CLEANUP_ON_
ROLLBACK

Indicates whether to continue clean-up of an existing VG Guest if a failure occurs during post deployment of scripts (for example, user creation failure) at the BMC Server Automation level.

Valid values: true (default), false

BBSA_BLCLI_COMMAND_TIMEOUT_
SECONDS

Specifies the timeout in seconds for BLCI commands.

Valid values: Integer, 300 (default)

BBSA_LPAR_PRIMARY_VIOS_
SELECTION

Specifies the VIOS selection for an LPAR frame.

Valid values: first (default)

Indicates whether to perform LPAR NETBOOT automatically.

Valid values: true (default), false

BBSA_LPAR_NPIV_STORAGE_
CONFIG_SCRIPT_NAME

BBSA_LPAR_NPIV_STORAGE_
UNCONFIG_SCRIPT_NAME

BBSA_VMWARE_THIN_PROVISION_
SECONDARY_DISKS

Specifies whether to configure thin provisioning on the secondary disk on a VMWare server.

Valid values: true, false (default)

BBSA_MSHYPERV_THIN_PROVISION_
SECONDARY_DISKS

Specifies whether to configure thin provisioning on the secondary disk on a Hyper-V server.

Valid values: true, false (default)

BBSA_HTTP_MAX_CONNECTIONS_
PER_ROUTE

BBSA_HTTP_MAX_TOTAL_
CONNECTIONS

Specifies the total number of HTTP connections allowed in BMC Server Automation.

BBSA_HTTP_KEEP_ALIVE_TIMEOUT

BBSA_SET_VIRTUALGUEST_NAME_
AS_VM_HOSTNAME

Sets the virtual guest name as the host name of the VM.

This attribute is applicable only for the SOI onboard feature.

Valid values: true, false (default)

BBSA_USE_64_BIT_HW_ARCH_
TYPE_FOR_VC_VRP_VH

Indicates the type of architecture to use for the virtual center (VC), virtual routing protocol (VRP), or virtual host (VH).

Valid values: true (64-bit), false (default/32-bit)

Indicates whether BMC Server Automation should attempt to stop the VG before changing the CPU or memory, or before performing remove disk operations.

Valid values: true, false (default)

Specifies a comma-separated list of provider definition names, for which host name-based registration is allowed.

This property is used for non-BMC Server Automation servers to decide whether to use host name or IP while registering the VM to BMC Server Automation.

By default, this attribute value is empty.

Indicates whether to ignore BMC Server Automation job execution warnings.

If this attribute is set to false, job warnings from BMC Server Automation mark the BMC Cloud Lifecycle Management use case as a failure.

Valid values: true, false (default)

Specifies  the time to wait (in seconds) until SOIs in Pending Administrator state are automatically marked failed

Valid value: Integer, 259200 (default)

Specifies the time interval (in seconds) to periodically check for SOIs in Pending Administrator state to be marked failed.

Valid value: Integer, 3600 (default)

Specifies the number of retries to be performed to check for in-flight action completion.

Valid value: Integer, 60 (default)

Specifies the interval (in seconds) between retries to check for in-flight action completion.

Valid value: Integer, 60 (default)

Specifies the port for the Atrium SSO server.

Valid value: Integer, 8443 (default)

Specifies the cache file storage path for the Atrium SSO server.

Valid value: String, cache (default)

Specifies whether to use file storage for cache.

Valid values: true (default), false

Specifies the time interval in milliseconds after which the cache eviction threads should run.

Valid value: Integer, 7200000 (default)

Specifies whether to persist information to the CloudDB.

Valid values: true (default), false

remote_destination_cloud_root_uri

Indicates if an instance is global.

Valid values: true, false

Specifies the active simulation providers.

Indicates if Validation logging is enabled in BMC Cloud Lifecycle Management.

Valid values: true (default), false

Indicates if Validation error is enabled in BMC Cloud Lifecycle Management.

Valid values: true, false (default)

Indicates if updates to provider definitions must be persisted in the CloudDB.

Valid values: true (default), false

If this attribute is set to true, changes in provider definitions are reflected with each restart of Platform Manager.

Indicates whether to abort starting up the Platform Manager after a provider instance bootstrap failure.

Valid values: true (default), false

Specifies the maximum file size in mega bytes.

Valid value: Integer, 10 (default)

Specifies the maximum number of backup log files on roll-over.

Valid value: Integer, 5 (default)

Specifies the maximum file size in mega bytes for Migration logs.

Valid value: Integer, 20 (default)

Specifies the maximum number of backup log files on roll-over for Migration logs.

Valid value: Integer, 50 (default)

Specifies the log file name for CSM logs.

Valid value: String, csm.log (default)

Specifies the debug level.

Valid value: String, info (default)

Indicates whether BMC Cloud Lifecycle Management is in maintenance mode.

Valid values: true, false (default)

Indicates whether HTTPS protocol is used.

Valid values: true (default), false

Indicates whether authentication is enabled.

Valid values: true (default), false

Specifies the minimum thread pool size.

Valid value: Integer, 10 (default)

Specifies the maximum thread pool size.

Valid value: Integer, 250 (default)

Specifies the Jetty port.

Valid value: Integer, 9443 (default)

Specifies the Cloud AR server host name.

Specifies the Cloud AR server port.

Specifies the Cloud AR server user name.

Specifies the Cloud AR server password.

Specifies the data set ID of the Cloud AR server.

Default value: BMC.ASSET

Default value: 0

Specifies the Remote Procedure Call (RPC) queue number of the Cloud AR server.

Default value: 390691

Specifies the maximum connections.

Default value: 50

Specifies the session timeout in seconds.

Default value: 900 seconds

The following BMC Communities video (1:59) describes how to modify the session timeout for the My Cloud Services Console: 

https://youtu.be/Dql9atiVj_I

Specifies the session cache size.

Default value: 500

Specifies the session cleanup period in seconds.

Default value: 450 seconds

Specifies the CSM local port.

Default value: 8080

Specifies the number of task manager threads.

Default value: 5

Specifies the maximum number of task manager threads.

Default value: 50

Specifies the keep-alive time in seconds required for event queue.

Default value: 60 seconds

Specifies the polling timeout for task manager threads.

Default value: 5

Specifies the number of task manager invocation worker core threads to keep in the pool, even if they are idle.

Default value: 5

Specifies the maximum number of invocation worker core threads to allow in the task manager worker pool.

Default value: 50

Specifies the timeout for invocation worker threads.

When the number of threads is greater than the core, this is the maximum time that excess idle threads will wait for new tasks before terminating.

Default value: 60

Specifies the polling timeout for invocation worker threads.

After this timeout, the task manager stops polling for new tasks and checks for the Platform Manager shutdown flag. If the Platform Manager is not shutting down, the task manager starts polling for new tasks.

Default value: 5

Specifies the number of CloudDB worker core threads to keep in the pool, even if they are idle.

Default value: 5

Specifies the maximum number of database worker core threads to allow in the CloudDB worker pool.

Default value: 50

Specifies the timeout for database worker threads.

When the number of threads is greater than the core, this is the maximum time that excess idle threads will wait for new tasks before terminating.

Default value: 60

Specifies the polling timeout for database worker threads.

After this timeout, the CloudDB stops polling for new tasks and checks for the Platform Manager shutdown flag. If the Platform Manager is not shutting down, the task manager starts polling for new tasks.

Default value: 5

Indicates whether to disable the new Java Finite State Machine  Engine.

Valid values: true, false (default)

Specifies the time in hours after which completed tasks are deleted from the cache store.

Default value: 12

Specifies the CSV-list of delays in seconds between invocation attempts.

Note: This attribute also applies to callouts and callback. 

If you specify fewer entries than the number of retries attempted, the last value is used for the remaining retries.

Default value:5,10,10,20,20,20,30,30,30,60,60,60,60,120,120,120,120,300

Specifies the maximum number of retries when making an invocation.

A value of 0 means infinite retries.

Default value: 10

Specifies the time in seconds after which the system stops retrying an invocation.

A value of 0 means no timeout.

Default value: 43200

Specifies the maximum number of retries when making an callback.

A value of 0 (defau;t) means no limit.

If this attribute is not set, it defaults to the setting of invocation.max.retries.

Specifies the time in seconds after which the system stops retrying a callback

A value of 0 means no timeout.

If this attribute is not set, it defaults to the setting of invocation.max.retry.interval.

Default value: 43200

Specifies the maximum number of retries when making a callout.

A value of 0 means no limit.

If this attribute is not set, it defaults to the setting of invocation.max.retries.

Default value: 10

Specifies the time in seconds after which the system stops retrying a callout.

A value of 0 means no timeout.

If this attribute is not set, it defaults to the setting of invocation.max.retry.interval.

Default value: 43200

Specifies the host name of the Cloud AR server.

Specifies the port of the Cloud AR server.

Specifies the user name of the Cloud AR server.

Specifies the password of the Cloud AR server.

Specifies the dataset ID of the Cloud AR server.

Default value: BMC.ASSET

Specifies the dataset mask of the Cloud AR server.

Default value: 0

Specifies the RPC Queue Number of the Cloud AR server.

Default value: 0

Specifies the maximum number of connections allowed to the Cloud AR server.

Default value: 50

Specifies the Cloud AR server long connection timeout.

Default value: 5000

Specifies the Cloud AR server normal connection time out.

Default value: 5000

Specifies the Cloud AR server extra long connection time out.

Default value: 15000

Specifies the Cloud AR Server timezone.

Default value: GMT

Specifies a comma-separated list of email addresses of administrators who should get email notifications in the To List.

Specifies a comma-separated list of email addresses of administrators who should get email notifications in the CC List.

Specifies a comma-separated list of email addresses of administrators who should get email notifications in the BCC List.

Specifies a comma-separated list of classes and the operation for which the administrator needs notification.

Default: servicerequest.submit,serviceofferinginstance.bulkcreate,serviceofferinginstance.constructor

Specifies the interval in minutes for running the timeline CloudDB save thread.

Default: 1 minute

Specifies the multiplier for number of CPUs.

Default: 3

Specifies the maximum of number of threads for handling message bus requests.

Default: 16

Specifies the time in seconds to retain the troubleshooting logs for a task.

Default: 432000 seconds

Specifies the rate in seconds at which the troubleshooting logs purge task should run.

Default: 36000 seconds

Specifies the location where the troubleshooting logs should be archived.

Default: troubleshoot

Specifies the chunk in Kilo Bytes out of the complete log that should be considered for parsing when analyzing logs.

Default: 102400 KB

Specifies the number of threads per processor that the Activity Failure email engine should use to send troubleshooting mails.

Default: 3

Specifies the maximum number of threads that the Activity Failure email engine should use to send troubleshooting mails.

Default: 16