HP Insight Orchestration 6.0 User Guide

After successfully completing the operation, the physical server blades are allocated and configured into
existing server profiles, physical and virtual servers are powered on, and the servers return to normal
operation.
If the operation fails, the servers are not available to activate.
Change lease operation
The Change Lease Period operation enables you to modify the starting or ending dates of the service. You
can also extend or reduce the lifetime of the service. Change lease tasks include:
• Validating the request for a new lease period
• Modifying servers (server blades or virtual machine hosts) allocation for a new lease period
• Modifying network and IP addresses allocation for a new lease period
• Modifying disk allocation for a new lease period
• Obtaining approval to extend a lease
NOTE: Reducing a lease period does not require approval.
• Executing custom actions
• Sending notifications
After successfully completing a Change Lease Period operation, Insight Orchestration modifies the lease
period for the infrastructure and updates the allocation of each resource for the new lease period. If a
resource is not available or an administrator rejects the request, the Change Lease Period operation fails.
When a lease on an infrastructure service expires, Insight Orchestration will deactivate the service. This
action will preserve all the logical servers in the service, and retain all resource allocations except for physical
servers, which are freed for other uses. Deactivating a service is the default policy for handling a lease
expiration. The administrator can change this policy to either (1) ignore the lease expiration, or (2) de-provision
the infrastructure service on lease expiration. The lease end policy can be changed in the hpio.properties
file.
# Specifies the lease period end policy.
# Acceptable values (not case sensitive):
# - Ignore = Simply ignore the lease period ending.
# - Delete = Deletes the infrastructure. This cancels all pending and in-progress requests.
# - Deactivate = Deactivates all infrastructure's resources. This cancels all pending and in-progress requests.
lease.end.policy = Deactivate
Insight Orchestration sends email notifications to the service owner one week and one day prior to a lease
expiration. For an expired service that is running or deactivated, Insight Orchestration sends email notification
once a week after the expiration, until the lease is extended or the service is deleted. These notification time
periods are configured in the hpio.properties file.
# In *minutes*, when to send the first and the second lease ending notification
# emails and the frequency on which the expired notifications will be sent.
lease.ending.notification.email.first=10080
lease.ending.notification.email.second=1440
lease.expired.notification.email=10080
Manual processes within the lifecycle operations
The execution of the Insight Orchestration lifecycle operations might require you, as an Insight Orchestration
administrator, to perform manual tasks. If defined, Insight Orchestration invokes an Operations Orchestration
workflow to initiate, remind, or otherwise facilitate a manual task and generates a Systems Insight Manager
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