Additional tab

This topic describes the Additional tab. This topic also describes Reserved Additional Properties.

The settings in the Additional tab are optional. With the default SLA Penalty property, you can set an hourly SLA penalty for templates that have SLA settings configured. The SLA penalty calculations let you set a cost estimate for each hour of downtime caused by an outage. For more information about adding hourly SLA penalties for templates, see Setting SLA penalty calculations.

In this tab, you can also add custom properties. For example, you can create an additional attribute that obtains its value from a field in a database row.

Reserved additional properties

You can add Reserved Additional Properties to a template and set them as a default. Every service assigned to the template will have the additional property. You can also manually set a specific value for the additional property for each service instance. To add additional properties to the template, follow these steps:
  1. Click the New Parameter button on the toolbar.
  2. Enter the parameter name and the default value.
Table 1 describes the reserved properties:
Table 1. Reserved additional properties
Reserved property name Sample value Property description
ViewDefName AppManagerView This view definition is used for any template/instance where this value is defined.
MapName maps/Europe.ivl This map is used for an template/instance where this value is defined.
WebtopViewName NewView This Webtop view name is used in the Service Details portlet and the AEL when launching from an instance that is assigned to the template where this value is defined.
UseESDAIdentifiersOnly True or False

When the property is set to true, all existing event identifiers are deleted from the memory model during each invalidation run. For new identifiers, the service accepts only identifiers that are sent from External Service Dependency Adapter (ESDA) policies or the Service Component Repository (SCR). This means what user will no longer be able to use identifiers set from the TBSM UI, as it will be erased at every invalidation.

When the property is set to false, all event identifiers are preserved for use by the service. To delete an event identifier, you must do so manually. The property is set to false by default.

Note: When enabling this property, it is good practice to invalidate the service tree from the top level node once after saving the template. This is to ensure that the template and identifier changes get propagated correctly throughout the service tree for the services which have the template applied on.