Viewing and modifying virtual images

You can edit a virtual image and save the changes in the catalog.

Before you begin

If you are viewing a virtual image for the first time, you must accept the license. With some images, multiple license options are available, which allows you to account for operating system licenses that you purchased.
Tip: Because patterns are associated with virtual images, you might have to accept a license before you can clone a pattern associated with that image. If you accept a license that you do not intend to use to clone the pattern, and you change the cloned pattern to use another image, you are not charged for the license usage. For more information on cloning virtual system patterns, see the Related tasks section.

You must be assigned the Create new catalog content role or the Workload resources administration role with full permissions to complete this task.

About this task

You can use the console, the command line interface, or the REST API to complete this task. For the command line and REST API information, see the Related information section.

Procedure

  1. Click Catalog > Virtual Images if you are in 2.3.3.0 (or Pattern development > Components > Virtual Images if in 2.3.3.3 or later).
  2. Select a virtual image.
    Edit or complete the following fields:
    License agreement
    Accept the license. If it is already accepted, click view. A window displays that lists all of the licenses that are accepted. You can click each product name to learn more about the license agreement. Click OK to return to the Virtual Images pane.
    Intelligent Management Pack
    In the menu, select Enable or Disable the Intelligent Management Pack. There are additional costs for this feature.
    Product IDs
    Specifies license information for the virtual image, including the product ID associated with the license, as represented in the license catalog, and the type of license.
    Contains parts
    Click show more to view all parts in the virtual image. Click part product IDs to view the part product IDs for each part.
    To add a new product ID to a part, click Click to add and complete the following fields to describe the product ID:
    • Product ID
    • Part number
    • License type
    Click OK.
    Access granted to
    Click Add more to give access to more users.
    Note: You must be assigned System level, user or user group role with permission to Manage workload resources (Full permission) to grant access to another user on virtual images to complete this task.
    Comments
    Click Add a comment to attach comments to this virtual image.