Retiring, reinstating, or deleting a blueprint

When you no longer want new service offering instances to be created from a blueprint, you can retire or delete that blueprint.

Retiring a blueprint allows existing services and service offerings based on that blueprint to remain functional. Retiring a blueprint does not:

• Affect any deployed services based on that blueprint.
• Affect any service offerings referencing that blueprint. Users can continue to request those services.
• Affect post-deployment options based on that blueprint.

When you retire a blueprint, no new references to it can be made, either in the service catalog or from another blueprint. However, if a blueprint is already being reused when you retire that blueprint, it continues to function correctly for the blueprints reusing the now-retired blueprint. If you decide later that you want to make full use a retired blueprint, you can restore that blueprint.

When you delete a blueprint, it is removed from BMC Cloud Lifecycle Management completely. You cannot delete a blueprint that has active service offering instances. You cannot delete a blueprint that is being reused by another blueprint.

The following BMC Communities video (2:56) describes how to retire, restore, and delete a blueprint.The video also discusses the impact on existing services and offerings.

https://youtu.be/NxXkndiEAmo

To retire a blueprint

1. In the Blueprint Library on the Service Designer workspace, click the blueprint you want to retire.
2. Select Blueprint > Retire.
3. In the confirmation box, click Yes.
   The blueprint is retired.

To restore a retired blueprint

1. In the Blueprint Library on the Service Designer workspace, select the Show Retired Blueprints checkbox.
2. Click the blueprint you want to restore.
3. Select Blueprint > Restore.
   The blueprint is restored.

To delete a blueprint

1. In the Blueprint Library on the Service Designer workspace, click the blueprint you want to delete.
2. Select Blueprint > Delete.
3. In the confirmation box, click Yes.
   The blueprint is deleted from BMC Cloud Lifecycle Management.

Related topics

Creating, copying, or editing a service blueprint
Navigating the Service Designer workspace