Creating remote catalogs in Service Exchange for Providers (legacy)

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  • Updated February 1, 2024
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    • As a provider, you can use Service Exchange for Providers to create remote catalogs to automate the task fulfillment for your customers.

    Remote catalog creation and publication

    As an application developer for the provider, you can create a remote catalog that contains the services for your entitled customers. After you create a remote catalog, an administrator at the customer site publishes the remote catalog to the production instance, just as they would any catalog item.

    For example, let's say that you have multiple SD-WAN product offerings: Gold, Silver, and Bronze. Your remote catalog contains 20 services that are associated with the SD WAN products.
    • The Gold product offering enables your customer to have rights to all 20 services.
    • The Silver product offering enables your customer to have rights to 15 of the 20 services.
    • The Bronze product offering enables your customer to have rights to only 10 of the 20 services.
    You can package all 20 of those services in a single catalog. The customers for each product offering only have the rights to those services that their product offering entitles them to.

    Catalog creation process

    The process for providers to create a remote catalog is as follows:
    1. Create a catalog record. See Create a remote catalog record (legacy).
    2. Create a remote record producer in a remote catalog. See Create remote record producers in a remote catalog in Service Exchange for Providers (legacy).
    3. Create variables for remote record producers. See Create variables for remote record producers in Service Exchange for Providers (legacy).
    4. Associate flows to the record producers.