What are RFCs?

A request for change, or RFC, is how you make a change in your AMS-managed environment, or ask AMS to make a change on your behalf. To create an RFC, you choose from AMS change types, choose RFC parameters (such as schedule), and then submit the request using either the AMS console or the API commands CreateRfc and SubmitRfc.

An RFC contain two specifications, one for the RFC itself, and one for the change type (CT) parameters. At the command line, you can use an Inline RFC command, or a standard CreateRfc template in JSON format, that you fill out and submit along with the CT JSON schema file that you create (based on the CT parameters). The CT name is an informal description of the CT. A CSIO (category, subcategory, item, operation) is a more formal description of a CT. Only the CT ID must be specified when creating an RFC.

AMS notifies you when the change has completed successfully (Success) or unsuccessfully (Failure).

The following graphic depicts the workflow of an RFC submitted by you.