CloudPortal Services Manager (CPSM) is a platform from which you can easily provision of services such as applications, desktops, Exchange mailboxes, SharePoint sites, you-name-it, your end users. It has built-in support for the most popular services, but beyond that, you can also extend your own services. In addition, you can also use scripts to query and manage CloudPortal Services Manager your own custom tools. This article will give you an introduction to different types of interfaces and connectors for CPSM.
Web APIs
We have an easy website to use API that allows people to do normal web applications (HTTP / HTTPS) to do things like create / edit / delete clients , delivery services / deprovision, publishing services, etc. API documentation is available as a PDF file on our website. This is ideal to use if you have repetitive or recurring tasks you need to do.
You can use any language you want for this, including scripting languages. You just need to be able to make web requests!
SDK Services
We also have a software development kit (SDK) so that people can define their own services. The result is a "plugin" architecture, and for example allows you to write a service that offers off a shelf or product in-house, something like BackupAgent for example, a tenant or end user. We have a number of Citrix television videos that walk through the steps necessary to do this (start with this: http://www.citrix.com/tv/#videos/5105). This must be written in VB.NET or C #.
Provisioning Manager
The Provisioning Manager allows you to change the "rules" governing what happens when a supply demand occurs. It is actually a graphical tool on top of the provisioning engine (the back-end system that does the actual work), and it is launched from the Start menu. It is designed to be used in part by IT Admins, ie for those who are not software programmers. Here is a screenshot:
There is a small scripting language that lets you build "If ... then" style statements in it. Here's an example:
There is also an excellent Citrix TV video that explains this in more depth. See http://www.citrix.com/tv/#videos/5110
Recap
This blog we hope you gave a good overview of the tools and capabilities that are available for you, with links on how to get more details. Furthermore, in future versions of the manager CloudPortal Services we will continue to expand and provide additional means to easily query and manage manager CloudPortal services ... stay tuned!
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