Insight Orchestration Designer overview

HP Insight Orchestration Designer enables you, as an architect, to plan and design multi-server, multi-tier infrastructures using a drag-and-drop interface. The infrastructure can include virtual servers and c-Class blades. Insight Orchestration users can provision services using Insight Orchestration templates.

An architect creates and maintains standardized infrastructure templates, working with the system administrator to ensure templates are compatible with existing resources and business needs enabling quick response to changing requirements in the business defined set of standard templates.

In general, architectural tasks include:

Accessing Designer

Prerequisites

• Have appropriate authorizations to use HP Insight Orchestration (HP IO) on the CMS.

• Be a member of the HPIO_Architects or HPIO_Administrators a on a Windows system.

Accessing Designer from a desktop

1. Open a web browser on the CMS where HP SIM is installed.

2. From the desktop, double-click the Insight Orchestration Designer icon.

Navigating to Designer

Using a browser, navigate to https://localhost:51443/hpio/designer/.

Designer interface overview

The template editor window contains three major frames:

• The Components frame displays the icons for the logical objects used to design a template.

• The Existing Templates frame provides a lists of available templates.

• The right hand frame is a template design area that you use to build the template by dragging and dropping components on to it.

For more information on using Designer, see the Designer help system.