Host Provisioning Report

The Host Provisioning report enables you to view provisioning progress of your hosts by location. The report guides you through the provisioning steps. Details of this process are displayed in a log file. Once your cloud hosts are provisioned, you can begin to use them for running tests.

To Access

Lab Management:

  1. On the sidebar, under Lab Resources, click Hosts.
  2. Click the Host Operations drop-down arrow and select Host Provision Report.
    Alternatively, click the Provision button. In the Provision Cloud Hosts dialog box, click the Provision button.

ALM:

  1. On the sidebar, under Lab Resources, click Testing Hosts.
  2. Click the Host Operations drop-down arrow and select Host Provision Report.
    Alternatively, click the Provision button. In the Provision Cloud Hosts dialog box, click the Provision button.

My Performance Center:

  1. On the My Performance Center navigation bar, select Resources > Testing Hosts.

  2. Click the Provision Report button.
    Alternatively, click the Provision Hosts button. In the Provision Cloud Hosts dialog box, click the Provision button.
Important information
  • You must have at least one cloud account and at least one host template linked to your project in order to provision hosts.
  • There may be a delay of a few minutes between the time that a cloud host's status changes to Operational and the time that the host is ready for use.
  • After provisioning is complete, the hosts begin to consume credits from your project.
Relevant tasks How to Provision and Terminate Cloud Hosts
See also Provisioning Hosts Overview

User interface elements are described below:

UI Elements

Description

Started

This section contains the following details:

  • The date and time that the provisioning starts.
  • The name of the user running the report.
  • The processing status of the report.
Number of hosts provisioned and checked: Indicates the number of hosts queued for provisioning and their status.
Refresh

The report automatically refreshes to show updates. Click the arrow to change the automatic refresh rate in seconds. Possible values: 1, 10, or 30.

Indicates the number of hosts queued for provisioning and their status in the specified location.Click the indicator to open the report details pane.

The possible states are:

Provisioning. The host is in the process of being provisioned.

Checking. The host is in the process of being verified.

Done. The host was provisioned and verified.

Done - Failed. The host failed to reach a provisioned state.

Opens the report details. The report displays the following elements:

  • Show All Locations. If you have more than one location running at the same time, you can view details for all locations.
  • IP/Name. The name or IP address of the host.
  • Instance Type. The hardware specs of the host.
  • Image.The software image used for the host.
  • Status. Indicates the provisioning status of the host.
  • Log . Displays a log of events related to the host.