This section explains the operations and maintenance performed by planners.

Planners create concrete specifications of the menus provided by IaaS and PaaS and determine the optimal realization measures for the required service level.

Planners perform the following work:

• Organizing subscriptions with Cloud providers

  Planners evaluate the services offered by Cloud providers and then arrange subscriptions.

  After arranging subscriptions, planners request the operators to register the subscribed information with Cloud Service Management. When arranging a subscription with a new vendor, planners also request for registration of vendor information.

• Menu registration

  Based on the service content provided by the cloud service subscribed to, the initial costs, basic charges, option fees, etc. for the service usage via Cloud Services Management are determined. This information is registered with Cloud Services Management as a menu and published. For details on operation procedures for registration and publishing, refer to the "FUJITSU Software Cloud Services Management User's Guide for Planner and Operator".

  For the registered menus, a usage guide is provided for platform providers.

• Usage status check

  Planners check the usage status and accounting status of menus as appropriate. Usage status and billing status can be checked from the [Billing Management] window of the Cloud Services Management cloud management portal. For detailed procedures, refer to the "FUJITSU Software Cloud Services Management User's Guide for Planner and Operator".

• Menu management

  Planners manage subscription statuses. Planners also update and add menus when changes are made, for example, when the vendor has added services.

  For details on the procedures for updating and adding menus, refer to the "FUJITSU Software Cloud Services Management User's Guide for Planner and Operator".