Creating Appliance Provider service blueprints
Service blueprints describe the functional structure of a given service offering, including its functional components and communication paths. They also define how a service offering is to be deployed under different circumstances. Each service offering in the service catalog has a set of service blueprints used for its instantiation.
This topic provides the following information for creating service blueprints for the Appliance Provider by using the BMC Cloud Lifecycle Management console:
To create a service blueprint
To create a service blueprint for an Appliance Provider instance, you can follow the general procedure for creating service blueprints.
- In the Service Blueprint window, click New to open the Service Blueprint Definition window.
- Follow the steps for creating a service blueprint. See Building-service-blueprints and related procedures.
To define the Appliance Provider service deployment definitions and resource sets
For details about defining Appliance Provider service deployment definitions and resource sets, see Creating-Appliance-Provider-service-deployment-definitions-and-resource-sets.
To prepare the service offering instance
Create and use an Appliance Provider service offering instance as you would any service offering. For detailed procedures, see Creating-cloud-services.
To set service offering options
Set the service offering options for the Appliance Provider instances as you would for other options. For information and instructions for defining options, see Service-Catalog-options-and-option-choices.
To create the requestable offering definition
Define your Appliance Provider requestable offering as you would any other offering. For instructions, see Creating-a-requestable-offering-definition.
Where to go from here
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