Decommissioning cloud services

When you create cloud services, you specify a date in the future when the service will be decommissioned. However, you can decommission a service before the planned decommission date.

If you decommission a database, the database is deleted in BMC Database Automation.

To decommission a service

1. From the list of services in the My Services tab of the My Cloud Services Console, highlight the service that you want to decommission.
2. Choose one of these methods to perform the action:
   • Click the Decommission button  .
   • Click the Operator Action icon and chose Decommission.
   • Right-click the service and chose Decommission from the pop-up menu.

A prompt bar at the top of the Service Instances pane displays an informational message that shows the action is in progress.  For detailed information regarding the status of the decommissioning action, highlight the service in the list on the Services link bar of the Activities tab and click the Advanced Error Information icon .

When a service is decommissioned, BMC Cloud Lifecycle Management takes the following actions, in order:

1. Set the contractline status to Terminated/Expired.
2. Stop the service offering instance.
3. Decommission sensors.
4. Delete the policy domain.
5. Delete server groups, which includes the following actions for each server group:
   1. Delete logical communication paths.
   2. Delete compute containers, which includes the following actions for each compute container:
      1. Release NICs and IP addresses.
      2. Delete DNS entries.
      3. Release any attached storage.
   3. Delete load balancer pool entries and load balancer pools.
6. Update user quotas.