Creating an Oracle 11g on RHEL 5.9 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 could 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
  • To create options and option choices for the service offering
  • Create option for Oracle 11g installation and configuration
  • To make the provisioning request
  • To validate the provisioned components
  • Where to go next

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.

     Warning

     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 create options and option choices for the service offering

In the BMC Cloud Lifecycle Management Administrator console, you can add options and option choices for the service offering.

For the Oracle 11g on RHEL 5.9 service blueprint, you need to create a post-installation option to configure Oracle 11g.

Create option for Oracle 11g installation and configuration

To create Oracle 11g post-installation option:

1. Launch BMC Cloud Lifecycle Management Administration console and click Service Catalog from workspace.
   
2. Click Option Editor. This displays Option Editor window.
   
3. Click Add to add a New Option.
   

4. Enter the Option Name, Option Type and Option Description.

   Warning

   Ensure that you have selected the Option Type as post-deploy action.

5. Click OK to create this option. 

Once you have created the option, you need to create an option choice.

Create option choice for Oracle 11g post-installation option

To create option choice:

1. Navigate to the Option Editor and select the created option name to create option choice.
   
2. Click Add  to add a new option choice.
   
3. Enter Option Choice and Description.
4. Click OK.

This creates the option choices for Oracle 11g post-installation option.

Configure option choice for Oracle 11g

1. Open Option Editor.
2. Select the option created for the Oracle 11g post-installation.
3. Select the option choice for Oracle 11g post-installation and click Option Choice Blueprint Configuration Editor .
4. Click Add to add new blueprint configuration for the selected option choice.
5. Select Parameter from the blueprint configuration list.
   

6. Enter the Parameter name along with Label and Description.
   

    

   Information

   Parameter name = SID

7. Click OK.
8. Once you created the parameter, Click Add to add new blueprint configuration for the selected option choice.
9. Select Custom Action from the blueprint configuration list.
   
10. Select Action Type as Script.
    

11. Enter NSH script name Oracle11gPostInstallation in Action.

    Warning

    NSH script name must be same as you have imported in BMC Server Automation.

12. Click OK to complete the process for Oracle 11g option choice blueprint configuration.

To make the provisioning request