Adding domains in Maximo IT

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As an administrator, you use the Domains application to add domains or to modify existing ones to fit with your business practices. The Domains application contains a single table window, Domains, that you use to add, view, change, and delete domains. For more details, refer Managing Domains.

Domains in Maximo IT are created to add the flavors and images details for the AWS EC2 instance. Follow the below steps to create the domains.

Creating domains for the AWS images

  1. Open the Domains application.
  2. At the bottom of the Domains table window, click Add New Domain and select Add New ALN Domain.
  3. On the ALN Domain pop-up, fill the fields as follows:
    • Domain: Specify a name for the domain, for example, AWS TEMPLATE
      Note: Make a note of the name of the Domain for reference.
    • Description: Specify the description for the domain, for example, AWS - TEMPLATE.
    • Data Type: Select ALN from the drop-down options.
    • Length: Enter 100
    • Click New Row for the ALN Domain, and fill the fields as follow:
      • Value: Specify the Management Engine GUID value of the image that you noted in Adding AWS cloud provider.
      • Description: Specify the name for the image such as Amazon Linux AMI(HVM/64-bit).
        Note: Click New Row as many times as necessary and add more AWS images details as necessary.
      • Click OK.
      Note: The images that you add here will be available when you request to create an EC2 instance from Maximo IT.

Creating domains for the AWS flavors

  1. Open the Domains application.
  2. At the bottom of the Domains table window, click Add New Domain and select Add New ALN Domain.
  3. On the ALN Domain pop-up, fill the fields as follows:
    • Domain: Specify a name for the domain, for example, AWS FLAVOR
      Note: Make a note of the name of the Domain for reference.
    • Description: Specify the description for the domain, for example, AWS - FLAVOR.
    • Data Type: Select ALN from the drop-down options.
    • Length: Enter 50
    • Click New Row for the ALN Domain, and fill the fields as follow:
      • Value: Enter the numerical value for the flavor.
        Note: The numerical value is the corresponding value for the instance type, such as for instance c3.2xlarge, the numerical value is 8.
      • Description: Specify the name for the flavor such as c3.2xlarge that you noted in Adding AWS cloud provider.
        Note: Click New Row as many times as necessary and add more AWS flavors details as necessary. For example, you can add a new row to add flavors for c3.4xlarge, p2.8xlarge, etc.
      • Click OK.
      Note: The flavors that you add here will be available when you request to create an EC2 instance from Maximo IT.