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Provision Machine: Amazon EC2

The Provision EC2 action type automates the provisioning of an Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) instance. For information about providing details for this action type, see Create an Amazon Image Instance.

The Details section of the action definition contains the following fields:

Host Name

Specifies the name of the host computer. Select one from the drop-down list.

Operation

Specifies if you want to terminate or reboot the instance. Select one from the drop-down list.

Require Approval

Select to specify that the ticket requires approval by a third party.

Note: CA SDM must be configured to use this option.

Auto close ticket on approval/rejection

Select to close the ticket after it is approved or rejected.

Note: CA SDM must be configured to use this option.

Ticket Types

Select a valid ticket type from the drop-down list. Depending on your configuration, valid types include:

• Default
• Incident
• Problem
• Request

Note: CA SDM must be configured to use this option.

Templates

Specifies the template to use to create a ticket. Select a template from the drop-down list. Depending on the ticket type selected, the form is populated with corresponding values.

Note: CA SDM must be configured to use this option.