Provider selection panel

After adding a resource offering to a service component, you must create one or more provider selection actions for that resource offering. Be sure to do this if you have configured a resource environment for a catalog in order to control which resource providers should be used when service offerings are ordered from a specific catalog. Otherwise, the default, random selection of a resource provider that occurs when provider selection actions are not called will ignore the resource environment association to a catalog. The provider selection actions execute during the Before phase of the Reserving lifecycle stage; the lifecycle stage cannot be changed.

CSA ships with internal actions to help with provider selection. For more information about these provider selection internal actions, see Provider selection internal actions.

Tasks

• Navigate to or View (the Provider Selection panel) — Select a service design version. Click the Designer tab. Select the service component on which you want to add a provider selection action. In the right pane, click the gear icon, select Edit Component, and select the Resource Offerings tab. In the Resource Offerings tab, click the name of the resource offering, and then click Provider Selection from the panel on the right.

• Add (a provider selection action) — Navigate to the Provider Selection panel and click Add. If no provider selection actions are configured, click the Add icon in the middle of the panel. Enter the information as described in the Lifecycle Action Selection Wizard for Sequenced Designs.

  A provider selection action cannot be created if the service component is part of a published design.

• Edit (a provider selection action) — Navigate to the Provider Selection panel, click the gear icon next to the action you want to edit, and select Edit. Update the information as described in the Lifecycle Action Selection Wizard for Sequenced Designs.

  The properties of an action cannot be edited if the service component is part of a published design.

• Delete (a provider selection action) — Navigate to the Provider Selection panel, click the gear icon next to the action you want to delete, and select Delete.

• Set Processing Order — The processing order of a provider selection action is relative to the other provider selection actions on this resource offering. The order in which you see the provider selection actions is the order in which they will be executed. You can click and drag a provider selection action to change its processing order.