Register a new service

You must be a cluster administrator.

You can register a service if you need to add a new service or if you unregistered a service you need again.Registered services may need to be enabled afterwards if the service is set up to be manually started.

  1. From System Services, click Configure Services.

    The Services page displays.

  2. In your consumer tree, navigate to the location where you want to register your service.

    You can only register a service to a leaf location. If your consumer has any sub-consumers, then it is not a leaf.

  3. From Global Actions, select Register a new service.

    The Service Profile displays showing the minimum required and preferred attributes for a new service along with preconfigured default values.

  4. Click Table Preferences at the top of the dialog box and check the boxes to add the corresponding information columns to the table.
  5. For main sections in the service profile (for example, "sc:ServiceDefinition"), click Actions and then insert any desired optional service parameters.
  6. For each parameter, click within the Value field to add or change the value.
    Note:

    The actual number of slots requested with MaxInstances/MaxInstancesPerSlot may be adjusted depending on the values of MaxInstancesPerSlot and MaxInstancesPerHost. For EGO service instances, the number of slots provided on each host is a fixed amount determined by MaxInstancesPerHost/MaxInstancesPerSlot. If the number of slots requested is not a multiple of the fixed amount, extra slots will be needed to fill the gap and thus be wasted. Take the following configuration as an example:

    <sc:MaxInstances>10</sc:MaxInstances>
    <sc:MaxInstancesPerSlot>1</sc:MaxInstancesPerSlot> 
    <sc:MaxInstancesPerHost>6</sc:MaxInstancesPerHost>

    Ideally 10 slots (MaxInstances/MaxInstancesPerSlot) are needed. However, the integer value of MaxInstancesPerHost/MaxInstancesPerSlot (fixed amount) is 6 and thus EGO will allocate 12 slots instead of 10, causing two slots to be wasted. To prevent slot wastage, ensure MaxInstances is a multiple of MaxInstancesPerHost/MaxInstancesPerSlot.

  7. Click Register and confirm that you want to modify your service.

Your service is registered. You may see the state change between DEFINED, INIT, ALLOCATING, and STARTED.

If your state remains DEFINED, you need to start your service.