Creating an operation - Definition

Name

Name of the operation

Operating System

Patch Analysis operations only: Select the operating system for which you want to define a Patch Analysis operation. Choose from the following operating systems:

• IBM AIX (only applicable to operations based on Patch Analysis Jobs already created in BMC Server Automation)
• Red Hat Linux
• Oracle Solaris
• SUSE
• Microsoft Windows

Use Existing Analysis Job

or

Create Analysis Job from Catalog 

Patch Analysis operations only; not applicable for the AIX operating system:

• Select Use Existing Analysis Job to base an operation on a Patch Analysis Job already created in BMC Server Automation.
• Select Create Analysis Job from Catalog to base an operation on a patch catalog. This option lets you choose the patches that the operation analyzes.

Description

Descriptive text for the operation

Security Group

The Security Group option specifies your current role in BSA or realm in BNA. If you are assigned to more than one role or realm, this option is available. If you are assigned to only one role or realm, this option defaults to that role or realm and you cannot edit this option.

Advanced Settings

(Provisioning operations only): Select to use advanced options when defining a VMware Provisioning operation.

By default, the wizard for defining a VMware operation requires three simple steps. If you select the Advanced Settings option, the wizard requires additional information, but you have more flexibility when configuring compute, storage, and network resources and additional choices for post-provisioning, job scheduling and notifications.