Where do I create a new provisioning profile based on a users LDAP group?

Navigate to [VM / Provisioning / Profile] of either the Cloud or Infrastructure namespace in your domain.

Where can I specify a pre-dialog to present to a Requester in their LDAP group?

Custom pre-dialogs can be defined in [VM / Provisioning / Profile / <LDAP Group Name>] of either the Cloud or Infrastructure namespace in your domain.

I would like to customize our dialogs. Where are all the dialogs kept?

All dialogs are located on each Red Hat CloudForms appliance in the /var/www/miq/vmdb/db/fixtures directory.

What happens if I do not specify any profiles for provisioning?

Red Hat CloudForms searches for a matching LDAP group in the [VM / Provisioning / Profile] class of either the Cloud or Infrastructure namespace in your domain. If an LDAP profile is NOT found then Red Hat CloudForms will use the missing class instance.

Where can I specify auto-approval values on a per virtual machine template basis?

Tags can be assigned to templates in the form of [prov_max_vms, prov_max_cpus, prov_max_memory, prov_max_retirement_days].

Where can I modify the default Auto-Approval values?

These values can be set in the [Service / Provisioning / StateMachines / ServiceProvisionRequestApproval / Default] class instance in your domain.

How can I customize the email that is sent when a request is approved?

The Request Approved email message can be modified in [VM / Provisioning / Email / MiqProvisionRequest_Approved] in either the Cloud or Infrastructure namespace of your domain.

How can I customize the email that is sent when a request is denied?

The Request Denied email message can be modified in [VM / Provisioning / Email / MiqProvisionRequest_Denied] in either the Cloud or Infrastructure namespace of your domain

How can I customize the email that is sent when a request is not Auto-approved?

The Request Pending email message can be modified in [VM / Provisioning / Email / MiqProvisionRequest_Denied] in either the Cloud or Infrastructure namespace of your domain

If a Request Approval requires manual approval, how does an Approver approve the request?

Log into Red Hat CloudForms as an approver/admin and Navigate to Virtual Machines → Requests and then click on the request.

Where in Red Hat CloudForms can I set default quota thresholds for users and groups?

These values can be set in the [VM Provisioning / StateMachines / ProvisionRequestQuotaVerification] class instance of either the Cloud or Infrastructure namespace in your domain.

Where in Red Hat CloudForms can I set individual and group quota thresholds?

Tags can be assigned to groups or users by navigating to Configuration → Access Control. The following are valid tags that can be assigned to group or individual users: [quota_max_cpu, quota_max_memory, quota_max_storage].

Where can I customize the way our virtual machines are named?

Virtual machine naming conventions can be altered using the methods in the [VM / Provisioning / Naming] class of either the Cloud or Infrastructure namespace in your domain.

How can I customize the email that is sent when a request is denied?

The Request Denied email message can be modified in the [VM / Provisioning / Email / MiqProvisionRequest_Denied] in either the Cloud or Infrastructure namespace of your domain.

Where can I customize the email message that is sent upon provisioning completion?

This can be customized using the [VM / Provisioning / Email / MiqProvision_Complete ] in either the Cloud or Infrastructure namespace of your domain.

Where can I change what is put into the virtual machines Annotation after provisioning?

These settings can be modified by leveraging the *_PreProvision Ruby methods in [VM / Provisioning / StateMachines / Methods] in either the Cloud or Infrastructure namespace of your domain.

Where do I set the default VC folder location for provisioning virtual machines?

This can be modified by leveraging by leveraging the *_PreProvision Ruby methods in [VM / Provisioning / StateMachines / Methods] in either the Cloud or Infrastructure namespace of your domain.

Where can I modify the virtual machine customization spec mapping?

This can be modified by leveraging by leveraging the *_PreProvision Ruby methods in [VM / Provisioning / StateMachines / Methods] in either the Cloud or Infrastructure namespace of your domain.

Where can I modify the Clone_to_Template state_machine?

Navigate to [VM / Provisioning / StateMachines / VMProvision_VM / template] in either the Cloud or Infrastructure namespace of your domain.

Where can I modify the Clone_to_VM state_machine?

Navigate to [VM / Provisioning / StateMachines / VMProvision_VM / clone_to_vm] in either the Cloud or Infrastructure namespace of your domain.

Where can I customize the email message that is sent upon completion of virtual machine retirement?

This can be customized using the [VM / Retirement / Email / vm_retirement_emails] in either the Cloud or Infrastructure namespace of your domain.

Where can I customize the email message that is sent during virtual machine retirement warnings?

This can be customized using the [VM / Retirement / Email / vm_retirement_emails] in either the Cloud or Infrastructure namespace of your domain.

If I want to customize what gets called during the retirement phase where should I look?

This can be customized using the [VM / Retirement / StateMachines / VMRetirement] in either the Cloud or Infrastructure namespace of your domain.

How can I extend the virtual machine retirement date an additional number of days?

Create a custom button for virtual machines that launches [/System/Request/vm_retire_extend]. Then navigate to the [VM / Retirement / Email / vm_retire_extend] Ruby method in the Cloud or Infrastructure namespaces and set the vm_retire_extend_days value.