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Provider properties

Custom properties on a provider can be used to capture additional configuration information about a particular provider. For example, you can use custom properties to model provider resources, such as datacenters, hypervisors, and datastores for a specific VMware vCenter provider.

When a topology design is provisioned, an Operations Orchestration flow can read and write provider property values.

Tasks

Custom properties are optional, and are needed only if the provisioning process requires them. For example, provider properties may be used by HPEOperations Orchestration flows during service provisioning.

  • Create provider properties. Click Create. Provide the information listed in the following table.
  • View property description. Click the information icon.
  • Edit provider properties. Click the edit icon. See the following table for the properties you can edit.
  • Delete provider properties. Click the delete icon.
Item Description
Type

Select one of the following:

  • Boolean - A property whose value is True or False.
  • List - A property whose value is a list of String values.
  • Integer - A property whose value is a positive or negative whole number or zero.
  • String - A property whose value is a sequence of characters.

You cannot change the type of a property after it is created.
 

Configure the following items for each property type:

For Boolean properties:

  • Name - A unique name for the property.
  • Display Name - The display name for the property.
  • Description - A description of the property.
  • Property Value - Select True or False.

 

For list properties:

  • Name - A unique name for the property.
  • Display Name - The display name for the property.
  • Description - A description of the property.

  •  Property Value - Click the Add Item icon to add a new value. Click the Edit Item icon to edit the selected value. Or click the Remove Item icon to remove a selected value.

     

For integer properties:

  • Name - A unique name for the property.
  • Display Name - The display name for the property.
  • Description - A description of the property.
  • Property Value - Select or type a positive or negative whole number or zero. If you enter a decimal number, the value will be truncated to the nearest integer. The maximum allowed integer value is 2147483647 and the minimum is -2147483648; if you enter a value outside these bounds the value will be automatically converted to the closest maximum or minimum value.

 

For string properties:

  • Name - A unique name for the property.
  • Display Name - The display name for the property.
  • Description - A description of the property.
  • Property Value - Type a string of characters.
  • Confidential Data - Select this box to mask the values so that they cannot be read in the user interface; no encryption of the value is performed.

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