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Create Subscription

Follow the steps to subscribe to the service:

  1. Log on to the Marketplace portal.
  2. Click Sidebar Menu from Dashboard, and then click Browse Catalog.
  3. Select the published Service offering.
  4. Enter the required values for subscriber options in the respective fields.
  5. Click Checkout.
  6. Enter the details such as the Subscription Name and Start Date of the subscription.
  7. Click Submit Request to complete subscription process.

To monitor the status of subscription, click the Subscriptions tab.

Subscriber Options

The following table lists required subscriber options under Server Configurations:

Subscriber option Description
Provider Name Select a OpenStack provider name.
Enable User Impersonation Mode Select either True or False to either enable or disable user impersonation mode. If impersonation mode set to True, Keystone Trust ID is used as the value to execute OpenStack operations.
Tenant Name Select the tenant or project name in OpenStack.
Region Select the name of the region to create instance.
Availability Zone Select the zone where the server is available.
Flavor Select the flavor reference for the desired flavor for your server instance.
Image Select the image reference for the desired image for your server instance.
Private Network

Enter the name of the private network.

Subscribers can select more than one network.

Router Name of the router for the network selected during subscription.
Public Network Select the name of the public network.
Keypair Details

Select the name of the security key used with the new server.

The user can select from the existing Keypair or create a new Keypair. If the user creates a new Keypair and if LDAP is configured, the private key is sent through an email.

If the user wants to create a new Keypair, then the user needs to select the Create a new Keypair option from the Select from existing Keypair drop down list.

Note When you delete a subscription, it does not delete the Keypair. It will remain in the OpenStack environment.

Name for the new Keypair to be created (if applicable) If you have choose to create a new Keypair then enter the name for the new Keypair else leave this field blank.
Server Name Prefix Enter the prefix name for the new server.
Volume Type Select a type of volume.
Volume Description Enter a description for the new volume.
Volume Display Name Enter a display name for the new volume.
Volume Size in GB Enter the size, in gigabytes, for the new volume.
For more information about using an attached volume, see Setting up an Attached Volume.

The following table lists required subscriber options under Server Group Configurations

Subscriber option Description
No of Server and Volume Instances Number of servers in server group

User Operations

User Operations for OpenStack Compute with Actions are listed in the following table.

Public actions Description
Associate Floating IP Select this option to associate the external network IP
Create VM Snapshot( Image) Select this option to create a snapshot of the VM.
Disassociate Floating IP Select this option to disassociate the external network IP.
Start Instance Select this option to start the service instance.
Suspend Instance Select this option to pause the service instance.
Stop Instance Select this option to stop the service instance.
Resume Instance Select this option to resume or restart the suspended instance.
Refresh Instance Select this option to refresh the instance.
Hard Reboot The whole instance is powered off and then switched on.
Soft Reboot This action does not turn of the whole instance but only reboots the instance.

User Operations for OpenStack Storage Actions are listed in the following table.

Public actions Description
Extend Volume Select this option to increase the volume size.
Remove Storage Volume Select this option to remove or delete the volume.