Pools and Filters for Cloud Provisioning

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  • Updated March 12, 2026
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    • A resource pool is a query or script that filters a table. You configure a resource pool to limit the values that are available to users when they request a catalog item.

    Example use of a pool

    To limit a user to only the networks in a particular logical datacenter, use the resource pool called NetworkPool that runs against the Cloud Network [cmdb_ci_network] table. The resource pool uses a script to filter networks based on the datacenter that the network belongs to.

    How a pool works

    How pools work

    The naming convention for pools is: 
    get<thisItem>By<condition>
    Where the condition is the top-level entity that forms the relationship between the return values. For example, getObjectIdByServiceAccount filters all ObjectIDs that are hosted on the specified service account.
    Filters query tables using only the specified condition. Any record that matches the condition is therefore returned.

    Pools and blueprints

    When you configure blueprints, you specify variables for form behavior. You can specify resource pools as the data source for each variable and select which resource pools to use. The variable then uses the filtered values.

    Resource Pool in the base system

    Pool Based on this table Filter type Filter name and description
    AnsibleInventoryPool Ansible Tower Inventory [sn_cfg_ansible_inventory] Script Filters the name of Ansible Tower Inventory.
    ApplicationPool Application Query Filters the names of applications.
    ApplicationProfilePool Application Profile [sn_cmp_application_profile] Script Filters the name of application profiles.
    AvailabilityZonePool Availability zone [cmdb_ci_availability_zone] Script Filters availability zones based on the logical datacenter they belong to.

    getNameByLDC: Filters availability zones based on the logical datacenter they belong to.

    The Terraform template for IBM requires the name of the availability zone as input for provisioning.
    AzureDevOpsPipelinePool Config Installable [sn_cmp_cfg_installable] Script Filters the installable configs.
    AzureDevOpsProjectPool Azure DevOps Project [sn_itom_csc_cp_azure_devops_project] Script Filters projects based on config provider.
    BusinessServicePool Service [cmdb_ci_service] Query Filters the names of business services.
    ChefServerPool Chef Server [sn_cfg_chef_server] Script Filters chef server credentials by Chef server.
    CloudAccountPool Cloud Account [cmdb_ci_cmp_cloud_account] Query Filters the names of cloud accounts.
    CloudKeyPairPool [cmdb_ci_cloud_key_pair] Script getObjectIdByServiceAccount: Filters cloud keypairs based on the service account they belong to.
    ComputeProfilePool Compute Profile [sn_cmp_compute_profile] Script Filters compute profiles by the logical datacenter and the cloud account it belongs to.
    ConfigMgmtPool Script Filters config management workload provider.
    CostCenterPool Cost Center [cmn_cost_center] Script Filters to list only the cost centers that the user belongs to.
    DatastorePool VMware vCenter datastore [cmdb_ci_vcenter_datastore] Script Filters datastores based on the logical datacenter they belong to.
    HardwareTypePool [cmdb_ci_compute_template] Script getObjectIdByAvailabilityZone: Filters hardware templates based on availability zone they belong to.
    ImagePool [cmdb_ci_os_template] Script getObjectIdByServiceAccount: Filters the resourceId of OS Image by service account.

    In IBM Cloud, OS Images are not specific to a datacenter, so they are hosted at the service account level. Terraform requires the resourceId as input for provisioning.
    IPAddressPool Cloud IP Address [cmdb_ci_cloud_ip_address] Query Filters the IP address.
    LaunchConfigurationPool Server Array Launch Configuration [cmdb_ci_sa_launch_config] Query Filters the configuration pool.
    NetworkInterfacePool Cloud Mgmt Network Interface [cmdb_ci_nic] Script Filters the network interface pool.
    NetworkPool Cloud Network [cmdb_ci_network] table Script
    • Filters networks based on the logical datacenter they belong to.
    • getObjectIdByLDC: Filters network IDs based on the logical datacenter they belong to.
    OSProfilePool OS Profile [sn_cmp_os_profile] Script Filters compute profiles by the logical datacenter and the cloud account it belongs to.
    ProjectsPool Project [pm_project] Query Filters the names of projects.
    ResourceGroupPool Resource group [cmdb_ci_resource_group] Script Filters resource group based on the logical datacenter they belong to.
    ScheduleTimeZonePool Choice [sys_choice] Script Filters scheduled time zones.
    SecurityGroupPool Compute Security Group [cmdb_ci_compute_security_group] Script
    • getByNetwork: Filters the security group by the network it belongs to.
    • getObjectIdByServiceAccount: Filters security group IDs based on the service account they belong to.
    SecurityGroupProfilePool Compute Security Group Profile [sn_cmp_security_grp_profile] Query Filters the names of security group profiles.
    SSHKeyPool CMP SSH Key Pair [sn_cmp_ssh_credentials] Script Filters user keys by user.
    StorageAccountPool Cloud Storage Account [cmdb_ci_cloud_storage_account] Script Filters cloud storage accounts based on the logical datacenter they belong to.
    StorageVolumePool Storage Volume [cmdb_ci_storage_volume] Query Filters the names of storage volumes.
    SubnetPool Cloud Subnet [cmdb_ci_cloud_subnet] Script
    • Filters the subnet by the network it belongs to.
    • getObjectIdByNetwork: Filters subnets based on the network they belong to.
    UserGroupPool Group [sys_user_group] Script Returns only the groups that the user belongs to.
    VirtualMachinePool [sn_cmp_resource_pool] Script getByAvailabilityZone: Filters virtual machine IDs based on the availability zone that they belong to.
    VmFolderPool VMware vCenter folder [cmdb_ci_vcenter_folder] Script Filters VM folders based on the logical datacenter they belong to.