Tasks
A task is an instance of a service. When you submit a service, Automation Director creates a
corresponding task that can be scheduled to run immediately or based on a schedule. A task can also be
suspended, resumed, stopped, and archived based on your needs.
The following figure shows the relationship between templates, services, and tasks.
Infrastructure groups
An infrastructure group organizes storage resources and enables you to associate them with services and
grant access to users. Resource groups that contain pools for storage are assigned to infrastructure
groups. The infrastructure groups are associated with service groups. The services in a service group can
access the resources in the associated infrastructure group.
Service groups
A service group is a collection of services. A service group is associated with a user group and a role is
assigned to give the users permission to use the services in the service group. In addition, the service
group is associated with an infrastructure group, to enable the services in the service group to use
resources in the Infrastructure groups.
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