Custom branding and Apps Manager

In the Custom Branding pane, you can customize the appearance of the TAS for VMs login portal and Apps Manager. In the Apps Manager pane, you can configure Apps Manager, and how it displays the pages for your apps in the Marketplace.

To configure the Custom Branding and Apps Manager panes:

1. Select Custom Branding.

2. Configure the fields in the Custom Branding pane. For more information about the Custom Branding configuration settings, see Custom-branding Apps Manager.

3. Click Save.

4. Select Apps Manager.

5. (Optional) To allow inviting new users to Apps Manager, select the Allow invitations to Apps Manager check box. Space Managers can invite new users for a given space, Org Managers can invite new users for a given org, and Admins can invite new users across all orgs and spaces. For more information, see Invite new users in Managing User Roles with Apps Manager.

6. (Optional) To allow users to download documentation and cf CLI packages in air-gapped environments, select the Allow access to offline tools check box. When you select this check box, the cf CLI installer is included in the Apps Manager BOSH release and updates each time you apply changes in Tanzu Operations Manager.

7. Under Included cf CLI packages, select either cf CLI v7 or cf CLI v8.

8. (Optional) To configure a custom name for your product page in the Marketplace, enter a name in Product name.

9. (Optional) To configure a custom name for the Marketplace page, enter a name in Marketplace name.

10. (Optional) To configure the Marketplace link in Apps Manager to go to your own marketplace, enter the URL for your marketplace in Marketplace URL.

11. (Optional) To configure secondary navigation links in the Apps Manager and Marketplace pages, enter link text and URLs under Secondary navigation links. You can configure up to 10 links in the Apps Manager secondary navigation.

12. (Optional) To display the prices for your services plans in the Marketplace, select the Display service plan prices in Marketplace check box.

13. (Optional) For Marketplace currencies, enter the currency codes and symbols you want to appear in the Marketplace as a JSON string. The default string is { "usd": "$", "eur": "€" }.

14. (Optional) For Apps Manager buildpack, enter the name of the buildpack you want to use to deploy the Apps Manager app. The buildpack you specify must be for static content. The default buildpack is staticfile_buildpack. If you do not specify a buildpack, TAS for VMs uses the detection process to determine a single buildpack to use. For more information about the detection process, see Buildpack detection in How Buildpacks Work.

15. (Optional) For Search Server buildpack, enter the name of the buildpack you want to use to deploy the Search Server app. The buildpack you specify must be a node-based buildpack. The default buildpack is nodejs_buildpack. If you do not specify a buildpack, TAS for VMs uses the detection process to determine a single buildpack to use. For more information about the detection process, see Buildpack detection in How Buildpacks Work.

16. (Optional) For Invitations buildpack, enter the name of the buildpack you want to use to deploy the Invitations app. The buildpack you specify must be a node-based buildpack. The default buildpack is nodejs_buildpack. If you do not specify a buildpack, TAS for VMs uses the detection process to determine a single buildpack to use. For more information about the detection process, see Buildpack detection in How Buildpacks Work.

17. The Apps Manager memory usage field configures the memory limit with which to deploy the Apps Manager app. If the app fails to start and shows an out of memory error, increase the memory limit by modifying this field. Enter a value in MB. To use the default value of 128, leave this field blank.

18. The Search Server memory usage field configures the memory limit with which to deploy the Search Server app. If the app fails to start and shows an out of memory error, increase the memory limit by modifying this field. Enter a value in MB. To use the default value of 256, leave this field blank.

19. The Invitations memory usage field configures the memory limit with which to deploy the Invitations app. If the app fails to start and shows an out of memory error, increase the memory limit by modifying this field. Enter a value in MB. To use the default value of 256, leave this field blank.

20. (Optional) If Apps Manager usage degrades Cloud Controller response times, you can configure Apps Manager polling interval to reduce the load on the Cloud Controller and ensure that Apps Manager remains available while you troubleshoot the Cloud Controller. VMware recommends that you only modify this field for as long as you are troubleshooting the Cloud Controller. If you do not modify this field back to its default value of 30 after you finish troubleshooting the Cloud Controller, it can degrade Apps Manager performance. You can modify this field in one of the following ways:

    • Increase the polling interval above the default value. Enter in seconds the duration you want the polling interval to last.

      Caution If you enter a value between 0 and 30, the field automatically reverts to 30.

    • Disallow polling by entering 0. This stops Apps Manager from refreshing data automatically, but users can update displayed data by reloading Apps Manager manually.

21. (Optional) If configuring the Apps Manager polling interval field above is not sufficient, you can further reduce the load on the Cloud Controller by also modifying App details polling interval. This field controls the rate at which Apps Manager polls for data when a user views the Overview page of an app. VMware recommends that you only modify this field for as long as you are troubleshooting the Cloud Controller. If you do not modify this field back to its default value of 10 after you finish troubleshooting the Cloud Controller, it can degrade Apps Manager performance. You can modify this field in one of the following ways:

    • Increase the polling interval above the default value. Enter in seconds the duration you want the polling interval to last.

      Caution If you enter a value between 0 and 10, the field automatically reverts to 10.

    • Disallow polling by entering 0. This stops Apps Manager from refreshing data automatically, but users can update displayed data by reloading Apps Manager manually.

22. To configure multi-foundation support for Apps Manager, enter a JSON object containing all the foundations you want Apps Manager to manage in Multi-foundation configuration (beta). Configuring multi-foundation support allows you to manage orgs, spaces, apps, and service instances from multiple TAS for VMs foundations from a single Apps Manager interface. For more information, see Configuring multi-foundation support in Apps Manager.

23. For Redirect URIs, enter a comma-separated list of the URI for each additional foundation you configured in Multi-foundation configuration (beta).

24. Click Save.