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.

Out-of-the-Box Component Types

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 Integrate CSA with HPE UCMDB in the Configuration Guide.

The available CI Types in CSAfor the HPE CSA (CI Type based) palette are listed in the below table:

Out-of-the-box CI Types

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

• 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 and CI Type Properties

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 Integrate CSA with HPE UCMDB in the Configuration Guide.

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.