Register Service Management Automation for Virtual Machine Clouds
Applies To: Windows Azure Pack
Integrating VM Clouds with Service Management Automation enables service providers to extend Service Provider Foundation to use the automotive capabilities of the Service Management Automation web service. When you register Service Management Automation for VM Clouds, you register the endpoint of the server where the Service Management Automation web service is running. This topic provides instructions on how to register the Service Management Automation endpoint with respect to the VM Clouds service so that events in the VM Clouds infrastructure can be associated with Runbooks available as part of the Service Management Automation web service. For information on how Service Provider Foundation integrates with Service Management Automation, see How is Service Provider Foundation associated with Service Management Automation?.
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You must also trust the Service Management Automation web service certificate on the computer running Service Provider Foundation to successfully invoke the runbooks from the VM Clouds context.
To register SMA for VM Clouds
From the management portal for administrators, click the VM Clouds tab.
From the VM Clouds tab, click the QuickStart (
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) view.From the Quick Start view on the VM Clouds tab, click Register Service Management Automation for VM Clouds and then provide the URL and the port for the Service Management Automation web service endpoint.
Click the check mark.
You can now associate runbooks with events that occur within the context of VM Clouds. For instructions, see Using automation with Virtual Machine Clouds.