The Template View displays the service group templates available in VCS. Templates are predefined service groups that define the resources, resource attributes, and dependencies within the service group. Use this view to add service groups to the cluster configuration, and copy the resources within a service group template to existing service groups.

In this window, the left pane displays the templates available on the system to which Cluster Manager is connected. The right pane displays the selected template's resource dependency graph.

Template files conform to the VCS configuration language and contain the extension .tf. These files reside in the VCS configuration directory.

Figure: Template view shows the Template view.

To access the template view

From Cluster Explorer, click Templates on the Tools menu.