Cisco Cisco Intelligent Automation for Cloud 4.3.1 User Guide
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Managing Templates
Managing Operating System Templates
Use the instructions in this section to manage your operating system templates.
Registering an Operating System Template
For information about registering operating system templates, see
Maintaining an Operating System Template
The Cloud Provider Technical Administrator can change the state of an operating system template to Maintenance to
keep the template ready, but not be used for new servers within the Cisco IAC system. The template must be in
Registered state to set it to Maintenance. To set the operating system template to Maintenance when already Registered:
keep the template ready, but not be used for new servers within the Cisco IAC system. The template must be in
Registered state to set it to Maintenance. To set the operating system template to Maintenance when already Registered:
1.
Choose Setup > Manage Infrastructure.
2.
Choose a Platform Element (such as VMware vCloud Director, OpenStack, Puppet, Cisco UCS Director and so on)
to see that platform element’s available list.
to see that platform element’s available list.
Note
: For all vCenter platform elements, the TemplateType name should be the same. For example, create a
TemplateType such as Windows. If a Cisco IAC install has three vCenter Platform elements, they all should be using
this TemplateType “Windows” for win2008R2. If there are multiple Cisco IAC installs, they also need to have the
same TemplateTypes friendlyname so that importing Blueprint functionality can work as intended.
this TemplateType “Windows” for win2008R2. If there are multiple Cisco IAC installs, they also need to have the
same TemplateTypes friendlyname so that importing Blueprint functionality can work as intended.
3.
Click the Templates icon.
4.
Using the gear icon
⚙
popup, choose Cloud Resource Maintenance for the line item you wish to set to Maintenance
mode.
5.
Close the popup when you are done.
6.
Enter Price, Appcode (optional), Multi-tenancy field values and Tenants field values.
7.
Click Submit Order.
Ignoring an Operating System Template
The Cloud Provider Technical Administrator can change the state of an operating system template to Ignored to
administratively ignore a template. The template may be in Discovered, Registered, or Maintenance states to set it to
Ignored. If the record was previously in Registered or Maintenance states, metadata on that record will be saved. To set
the operating system template to Ignored:
administratively ignore a template. The template may be in Discovered, Registered, or Maintenance states to set it to
Ignored. If the record was previously in Registered or Maintenance states, metadata on that record will be saved. To set
the operating system template to Ignored:
1.
Choose Setup > Manage Infrastructure.
2.
Choose a Platform Element (such as VMware vCloudDirector, OpenStack, Puppet, Cisco UCS Director and so on)
to see that platform element’s available list.
to see that platform element’s available list.
3.
Click the Templates icon.