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.
To retire a blueprint
- In the Blueprint Library on the Service Designer workspace, click the blueprint you want to retire.
- Select Blueprint > Retire.
- In the confirmation box, click Yes.
The blueprint is retired.
To restore a retired blueprint
- In the Blueprint Library on the Service Designer workspace, select the Show Retired Blueprints checkbox.
- Click the blueprint you want to restore.
- Select Blueprint > Restore.
The blueprint is restored.
To delete a blueprint
- In the Blueprint Library on the Service Designer workspace, click the blueprint you want to delete.
- Select Blueprint > Delete.
- In the confirmation box, click Yes.
The blueprint is deleted from BMC Cloud Lifecycle Management.
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