HP Insight Orchestration 6.3 User Guide

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.
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 event. You can use Workflow integration or the Insight
Orchestration console interface to signal completion of a manual task.
The manual tasks are associated with paused states in the Insight Orchestration automation and
include:
• Boot disk allocation
When LUNs with the required attributes are not available for a Create Service or Add servers
to group operation, disk allocation is blocked and the Insight Orchestration administrator is
notified.
The operation pauses until the Insight Orchestration administrator:
◦ Works with a SAN administrator to create the storage.
◦ Defines the storage in HP Insight Dynamics Logical Server Management.
◦ Continues the operation.
When the operation continues, Insight Orchestration reattempts to allocate the resources.
Success depends on the availability of unused boot LUNs.
• Approval
After resources are reserved, the Create Service, Add servers to group, Add data disk to group,
and Change Lease Period (extend only) operations pause for Insight Orchestration administrator
approval. The Insight Orchestration administrator can approve or reject the request. If the
request is approved, the request continues into provisioning.
NOTE: Administrator submitted requests do not require approval.
• Manual operating system deployment
58 Insight Orchestration provisioning and allocation