Ops Center Automator enables you to share the values specified for a service among multiple services. Settings that are shared are called the shared properties. For example, if you use a service template to manage a common server and you define the host name, user ID, and password for that server at the connection destination as shared properties, you save the time needed to enter this server information each time a service is run. In some instances, all storage services might share the same address.
When you assign a value to a service, it takes effect when the target service is submitted for execution. Changes that are made to a property value do not affect services that are already submitted. Property values set after submitting a service are applied to tasks that are generated from the target service. To apply a shared property value to services that are submitted, you must stop the service and then submit it again.
The following figure shows how the value of a shared property is shared over multiple services.
Ops Center Automator has a set of built-in shared properties that are based on common provisioning tasks. Additionally, shared properties can be customized when creating a service template using Service Builder.