When you have a need to enable the same services on multiple hosts, creating a template and applying it to the applicable hosts can save you time. You can apply one template to up to 100 hosts without the hassle of creating the same configurations repeatedly. In addition, each template can serve up to 500 hosts. Using templates can also simplify planning, deployment, and maintenance for your BloxOne infrastructure.
A template is a set of service configurations you have defined for a host. When creating a template, BloxOne takes a snapshot of the service configurations on the host, including the following information: service name, service type, service description, service tags, and interface labels (interface bindings). After you create a template, you can apply it to other hosts that require the same service configurations.
The Cloud Services Portal logs the following template actions to the audit log: create, update, apply, and delete. For information, see Viewing Audit Logs.
The Templates page of the Cloud Services Portal displays the list of all configured templates.
You can also do the following:
Perform a local search to view templates based on your filtering criteria; and you can page through the results.
Click the Sort by drop-down menu to sort the list of templates by available fields, such as Created, Template Name, and Updated.
Click the down arrow on the right to expand the panel to view service information of the template and the hosts to which the template has been applied. The Cloud Services Portal display up to five hosts in this panel. To view the full list of hosts for a template, click … > General Information > Host tab.
Click … > General Information to view detailed information about the template and the hosts on which the template was applied.
Filter information by template name or the name of the host on which you have applied the template.
For more information, see the following: