HP Insight Orchestration 6.0 User Guide

6 Using Insight Orchestration console
Overview
The Insight Orchestration console enables you, as an administrator , to deploy, manage and monitor the
overall behavior of Insight Orchestration and its users , templates , services and resources . Administrators
also interact with the architects to ensure templates are compatible with existing resources and business
needs as requests are fulfilled or denied. For example as an administrator you:
• View status, progress, and details of completed and executing requests
• View available resources
• Approve or reject requests
• Perform pool management
To accomplish these tasks as an administrator, you:
• Create resource pools for hosting services based on standardized templates and the business forecast.
• Collaborate with the business units to register user accounts for access to the Self-Service portal.
• Assign one or more resource pools to each self-service user, authorizing the user to deploy service
templates on a given pool of hardware resources.
Accessing the console
After installing Insight Orchestration, you can launch Insight Orchestration console through Systems Insight
Manager by selecting Tools→Insight Orchestration.
To use Insight Orchestration console, you must be a member of the HPIO_Administrators Windows group.
Interface overview
The Insight Orchestration console displays the following tabs:
• Home Displays an overview of Insight Orchestration operations providing statistics, resource usage,
and links to access Insight Orchestration tasks.
• Templates Displays all the available templates and enables you to view the details of a template,
edit a template, create a new template, delete a template, submit a template for provisioning, and
assign users to a template.
• Requests Displays a list of user-generated requests, and enables you to review request history, approve
or reject requests, cancel requests, review the details of a request, review details of the service, and
continue a request.
• Services Displays a list of active services, and enables you to view the details of a service, add
additional storage and servers to a service, activate or deactivate servers, modify lease periods, and
delete a service.
• Servers Displays a list of available server resources, and enables you to view server details and
manage server resources, create new server pools, and manage the users of a server pool.
• Storage Displays a list of available storage resources, and enables you to view storage details and
manage storage resources.
• Users Displays a list of current users, the resources assigned to each user, user login status and user
role.
• Networks Displays the available networks and enables you to configure these networks.
• Software Enables you to view all software and annotate available server deployment folders.
• Calendar Enables you to search for and view utilization information for users, services, and templates,
graphically displaying usage and conflicts.
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