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Components (Sequenced Designs)
Use this area of the Cloud Service Management Console to manage component palettes, component types, and component templates that will be used in sequenced service designs. A component (also known as a service component) represents one service design element required to realize a service subscription. It provides a framework to describe the actions and resource offerings required to realize, manage, and retire the service design.
Component Palettes
Component palettes are the grouping structure for component types (described below). Each palette contains a group of component types you can choose from when creating service components in a service design. CSA is installed with one palette (called CSA). This palette allows you to reuse the installed component types, and templates, or you can create your own component palettes, types and templates from the base set, (with some restrictions). When creating component types from other palettes, you must take care to prevent circular dependencies; however, conforming to suggested best practices can help you create palettes and component types to meet your organization's needs.
Component Types
A component type is a hierarchical classification of service components and is used in creating a service design. A component type contains rules that constrain how service designs can be constructed, helping a Service Designer to properly construct a service design. Component type constraints limit the types of service components that can be connected to components of this type within a service design. Resource category constraints limit the categories of resource offerings that can be bound to service components of this type.
CSA allows you to create your own component types and is installed with a number of component types, as listed in the following table.
| Component Type | Description | Component Type Constraints | Resource Category Constraints |
|---|---|---|---|
| Application Layer | Represents a logical installation and configuration unit of an application. | No component type constraints | No resource category constraints |
| Delegated Topology in CSA | Delegates execution to an CSA topology-based design. Not available in CSA version 4.60 or later. | No component type constraints | No resource category constraints |
| Infrastructure Service | Contains a collection of infrastructure components that are needed in a service design. |
Server Server Group Virtual Network |
Application Compute Configuration Management Infrastructure Monitoring Network Storage |
| Load Balancing Pool | Describes the membership of Servers in a pool that serves a load-balanced Software Application Service. |
No component type constraints |
Compute Network Service Assurance Service Usage |
| Network Connection | Describes the relationship of a Server interface to a Virtual Network. |
No component type constraints |
Network |
| Platform Service | Represents a collection of infrastructure services that also provide middleware, databases, and other components required to host an application. |
Delegated Topology (not available in CSA version 4.60 or later) Infrastructure Service |
Application Compute Configuration Management Infrastructure Monitoring Network Storage |
| Policy Enforcement Point | Describes the implementation of access control policies for a Virtual Network. | No component type constraints |
Compliance Network Security |
| Server | A virtual or physical server that is provisioned by CSA. Provides specific provisioning attributes for individual servers (can optionally be marked as Pattern when this service component is used in a service design). |
Application Layer Network Connection Software Component Storage Volume |
Application Compliance Compute Configuration Management Monitoring Network Service Usage Storage |
| Server Group | A container of identically configured Servers. Contains a single Server (marked as Pattern in a service design) that describes the shared characteristics of all Servers in the Server Group. |
Load Balancing Pool Server (one Server, marked as Pattern) Software Component
|
Compute Configuration Management Infrastructure Monitoring Network Storage |
| Service Composite | Often used as the root service component for service designs. |
Delegated Topology (not available in CSA version 4.60 or later) Infrastructure Service Platform Service Software Application Service
|
Application Compute Configuration Management Infrastructure Monitoring Service Usage Storage |
| Software Application Service | Represents a complex application architecture. Contains one or more Software Application Tier service components. |
Software Application Tier
|
Application Compliance Configuration Management Monitoring |
| Software Application Tier | Describes a type of software, or a collection of software, that is applied to all Servers within a Server Group. |
Server Group
|
Application Configuration Management Monitoring |
| Software Component | Describes software deployed on an individual server. |
No component type constraints
|
Application Monitoring |
| Storage Volume | Describes a single accessible storage area with a single file system. | No component type constraints |
Configuration Management Monitoring Service Usage Storage |
| Virtual Network | Models a network infrastructure to which a network connection can be associated. |
Policy Enforcement Point |
Network Service Usage |
HPE CSA (CI Type based) Palette
HPE CSA (CI Type based) palette is available for Sequenced Designs and the components in this palette are similar to the components available in the HPE CSA palette. However, the component types in the HPE CSA (CI Types based) palette is aligned with HPE UCMDB's CI Type system, so that each new CSA component type is mapped to its corresponding CI Type in HPE UCMDB, and the attributes of the corresponding CI Types are mapped to the attributes of the CSA component type.
An HPE UCMDB provider should be configured if the new component types based on HPE UCMDB's CI Type system needs to be created, or if the service topology provisioned by CSA should be created in HPE UCMDB. If the HPE UCMDB provider is configured and a service offering is subscribed or a service design is deployed in CSA, then the equivalent topology will be created in HPE UCMDB.
For details on configuring HPE UCMDB provider and integrating HPE CSA with HPE UCMDB, see the section
The available CI Types in CSAfor the HPE CSA (CI Type based) palette are listed in the below table:
| Component Type | Description | Component Constraints |
Resource Category Constraints |
|---|---|---|---|
Configuration Item  |
Root Component for all components derived from CI Type or equivalent. | None | None |
| Infrastructure Element |
Contains infrastructure service components such as, individual servers or server groups that are required in a service design. | None | None |
| Node |
Represents a general purpose machine and is a base component type from which other component types representing devices such as, Virtual Machines will be derived. |
None |
None |
| Server | Represents a general purpose machine which has an IP Address such as, Windows or Unix Servers. |
Node Element Running Software |
Application Compliance Compute Configuration Management IT Service Management Monitoring Service Usage Storage |
| CI Collection |
Generic logical collection of components that are of type - Infrastructure Element or Running Software. | None | None |
| Infrastructure Service | It contains a collection of infrastructure service components, such as Server Groups, that are needed in a service design. |
Server Server Group |
Compute Configuration Management Infrastructure Monitoring Network Storage |
| Server Group | Represents a server group which contains one or more servers. |
Server Running Software
|
Compute Configuration Management Infrastructure Monitoring Network Storage |
| Running Software |
Represents the runtime aspects of a software that is running or is intended to be running on a server and is a base component type from which other component types representing various software will be derived. | None |
Application Monitoring |
| Database |
Represents a database management system. | None | None |
| Oracle | Represents an Oracle database server. | None | None |
| MS SQL Server | Represents an MS SQL Server database server. | None | None |
| PostgreSQL | Represents a PostgreSQL database server. | None | None |
| Vertica | Represents a Verica Instance. | None | None |
| MySQL | Represents a MySQL database server. | None | None |
| Application Server |
Represents a server that hosts an API to expose business logic and business processes for use by third-party applications. | None | None |
| J2EE Server |
Represents a J2EE application server. | None | None |
| JBoss AS | Represents a JBoss application server. | None | None |
| Weblogic AS | Represents a Weblogic application server. | None | None |
| Load Balancer Software | Represents a component type for all Load Balancer software. | None | None |
| F5 BIG-IP LTM | Represents a F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager software. | None | None |
| Web Server |
Represents a software that accepts http requests and delivers web pages as a response. | None | None |
| Apache Web Server | It represents an instance of Apache Web Server. | None | None |
| Apache Tomcat | Represents an instance of Apache Tomcat web server. | None | None |
| IIS Web Server | Represents an instance of IIS Web Server. | None | None |
| Application Resource |
A base component type that is used to derive component types representing application resources. | None | None |
| WebService Resource |
A base component type used to derive component types that represent web service resources. | None | None |
| Web Service | A component type that represents a web service. | None | None |
| Interface |
A component type that describes a logical interface. | None | None |
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This indicates that the CI Type Component is not visible to the end user in Designer and hence cannot used in Service Designs.
- All the CI Type Components are system critical.
| Component Type | Property Display Name | Description | Property Type |
|---|---|---|---|
| Configuration Item | Name | Name is the key property, the value set for it should be unique so that each instance is uniquely identified. | String |
| CI Instance ID | Configuration Item Instance ID | String | |
| CI Collection | CI Collection ID | CI Collection ID | String |
| Node | Primary IP Address | Primary IP Address of the Server. | String |
| NET BIOS Name | The Net Bios name is used by NetBios services running on a computer. The NetBios name of a computer is usually the same as the computer's host name. | String | |
| SNMP Sys Name | The name reported by a SNMP agent on a device. It is different from a DNS name. | String | |
| Server | Disk Size | Storage capacity of the Disk in gigabytes (GB). | Integer |
| Number of CPU Cores | Number of CPUs on the Server. | Integer | |
| Primary MAC Address | Represents the MAC address of the network. | String | |
| Power State | The power state of the server, either on or off. | Boolean | |
| Memory Size | The size of the server's memory in megabytes (MB). | Integer | |
| Type of OS Image | Type of Operating System installed (Windows, Linux or any other). | String | |
| Domain Name | Domain Name to which the server belongs. | String | |
| Host Name |
Host name of the deployed server. Note: The host name is inherited from the property "Name" from the CI Type "Configuration Item". |
String | |
| Server Group | Number of Servers | Number of servers in the server group. | Integer |
| Minimum Server | Minimum Number of servers required in the server group. | Integer | |
| Maximum Servers | Maximum number of servers allowed in the server group. | Integer | |
| Running Software | Application Product Name |
Name of the installed software product. Note: The Application Software Name is inherited from the property "Name" from the CI Type "Configuration Item". |
String |
| Application Product Version | The version information of the software product. | String | |
| Application Product Vendor | Name of the product vendor. | String | |
| Application Protocol | The protocol used by the application, usually http or https. | String | |
| Application IP Address | The IP address to which the application is bound. | String | |
| Application Port | The port number to which the application is bound. | Integer | |
| Application User Name | The name of the user account used to access the application. | String | |
| Application Password | The password of the user account used to access the application. | String | |
| Network Connection | Interface Name | Name assigned by a device to a network. | String |
| IP Address | The IP address of the network connection. | String | |
| MAC Address | The entity's MAC address. | String | |
| Network Reference | Network Reference. | String | |
| Storage Volume | Disk Size | Disk Size. | Integer |
| Disk Type | Disk Type. | String | |
| RAID Type | RAID Type. | String | |
| Web Service | Web Service Name | Name of the web service. | String |
| Database | Database Connect String | Database Connect String. | String |
| Oracle | Oracle Instance Number | The oracle instance number (relevant on RAC). | String |
| Application Server | Administration Domain | This attribute includes the name of an administration domain. An administration domain is formed by a group of managed systems that are administered similarly, either by the same user, group of users, or policy. | String |
| J2EE Server | J2EE Server Full Name | J2EE Server Full name that contains node name and server name. | String |
| IIS Web Server | Allow Keep Alive | Allow Keep-Alive Configuration of the web server Anonymous Password Sync Application Pool ID. | Boolean |
- In addition to the above properties, all component types will also have properties inherited from its base parent component type.
- Service instances deployed from Service Management Console will be represented as Business Application in HPE UCMDB. And service instances deployed from Marketplace Portalwill be represented as Cloud Subscription Service in HPE UCMDB.
- For the Cloud Subscription Service CI to be visible in HPE UCMDB tool, the HPE UCMDB Content Pack should be imported to UCMDB from HPELN. For details, refer to the section
Component Templates
A component template is a specialized version of a component type and is used to simplify service design creation. Component templates include customized settings for properties, lifecycle actions, and resource offerings normally created in a service design.