Services are based on service templates. The Service Templates tab includes the views and tools to create, copy, import, organize, and manage automated service templates.
Tag Search pane
The Tag Search pane enables users to filter service templates that have been tagged.
Tags are organized into groups, such as Applications, Hypervisors, and Storage Operations. Each group has one or more tags.
To use tags, click a tag name to see only service templates tagged with that name in the service templates pane. Click the tag again to expose all tags in that group and all service templates that were filtered out. You can only use one Version tag at a time.
You can click Organize Tags to create your own tag groups and then add tags to the groups. You can also add tags to the provided groups.
Controls
The following actions are available in the Service Templates tab to manage service templates.
| Control | Use |
|---|---|
| Show Latest Version
Show All Versions |
Choose to show only the latest versions or all versions of templates. |
| Card View | You can click a template to open the template preview, which includes detailed information and access to controls. Card View enables you to visualize your templates as discrete objects, and allows you to see the description in each template. |
| Table View | Table View lets you see more information at the same time, and makes it easy to compare information in your list. You can choose which columns to display and reset the defaults at any time. You can also rearrange columns in the table. |
| Import | Import a template to Ops Center Automator. This can be used to import a template from another environment. |
| Create | Start Service Builder to create a new service template. For more information, see the Hitachi Ops Center Automator Service Builder User Guide. |
| Create Service | Create a new service from the specified service template. |
| Copy and Edit | Start Service Builder to create a new service template based on the specified template. For more information, see the Hitachi Ops Center Automator Service Builder User Guide. |
| View Flow | Start Service Builder to view the flow of the template in the Service Builder Edit view. For more information, see the Hitachi Ops Center Automator Service Builder User Guide. |
| Export | Export a file and save it outside Ops Center Automator. |
| Delete | Delete an existing template. |
| Apply Latest Version | Apply the latest version of the template to the associated service. |
| Update Service Template | If this control is available, the template is using an outdated version of another template or components. Use this control to update the template using
Service Builder.
For more information, see the Hitachi Ops Center Automator Service Builder User Guide. |
Properties
The following properties are available in the Service Templates tab for each template:
- Name: Name entered by the vendor or user.
- Template icon: Icons represent different types of templates.
- Vendor ID: Vendor identifier.
- Version: Version number of the template.
- Description: Description of the template.
- Service Template Key Name: Identifier name of the template.
- Vendor: Template vendor.
- Tags: Tags applied to the template.
- Registered (in Table View): Date the template was created.
- Released (in Card View): Date the template was released.
- Updated (Last Update in Card View): Date and time the template was last updated.
- Latest Version (in Table View): Whether the template is the latest version. In Card View, an outdated template has an OUTDATED badge.
- Used Services: Number of services using the template. Click to open the Table View of the Services tab with services using the template.
- Used Service Templates (in Table View): Number of templates using the template. Click to open the Templates using the template dialog box where you can select a template, then click View Flow to open the flow window for the template.
- Services Outdated: Whether any services are using an outdated version of the template. In Card View, the template has a NEED VUP badge.
- Component Outdated (in Table View): Template includes outdated components.
Graphic properties in the Card View
The Card View includes the following graphic signals.
| Graphic | Description |
|---|---|
| NEED VUP | A service is using an outdated template. You can use Apply Latest Version to apply the latest template. |
| OUTDATED | The template is using an outdated version of another template or components. You can use Update Template to update the template version. |
| NEW | The template is fewer than 14 days old. |
| [blue dot] | The template is being used by services. |