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Overview of Integrating with External Reservation Services

As an administrator, you can perform the following tasks for reservation services:

• Specify billing charges for reservation services using any and all options that CA Service Catalog supports for nonreservation services. Examples include periodic billing, one-time billing, and usage-based billing.
• Create or update reservations that specify no end date.
• Create types and subtypes for resources used in services. Users can select these resources when requesting reservation services. Moreover, users can modify or return these resources (in whole or in part) while the reservations are in progress. An example is a user requesting additional memory after the reservation has started and returning it before the reservation ends. You create services with modify and return features that both enable users to perform these tasks and charge users accordingly.

  The modify, return, and extend operations use the new predefined API plug-ins to retrieve details about the resources used in reservations that are in progress.

• Set up reservation services to reserve, modify, extend, and return resources, as described in the previous bullets.

Note: For general information about reservations and for details about integrating with Reservation Manager, see the "Integrating with Reservation Manager" chapter.