Automation Widget

The Automation widget allows the user to execute Operations Orchestration (OO) flows on the selected CI and the CIs that are in the selected CI’s environment. These flows are run according to the user's permissions in OO. This widget displays all the available OO flows that can be run on the selected CI and CIs within the CI’s environment, and displays a history of the available flows that have actually been run on those CIs.

For the Automation Widget to appear in the UCMDB Browser module, this widget must be enabled in UCMDB by going to Administration > Infrastructure Settings > UCMDB Browser Settings, and setting Enable the Automation widget=True.

The UCMDB Browser module comes with an Automation Flow adapter that is deployed on the UCMDB server when the UCMDB Browser module first loads. For this widget to work, the UCMDB administrator must configure this adapter, as described in Configure the Automation Flow Adapter (for the Automation Widget). The UCMDB Browser module also deploys several out-of-the-box automation flows that can be used immediately after the CMS UI connects to the UCMDB server, and can be used as examples for constructing other automation flows.

To select and define Automation Flows in UCMDB, see Select and Define Automation Flows (for the Automation Widget)

CI Overview Mode

This mode displays the total number of available flows that can be run on the selected CI and CIs in its environment (called Available Flows), and the number of times that any of the available flows have been executed on the selected CI or on CIs in its environment (called Execution History).

Widget Details Mode

This mode is split into the following sections:

• Available Flows. This section displays the flows that can be run on the selected CI and CIs in its environment. From here you can:

  • Select an Automation Flow

  • Select the CIs on which to run the flow

  • Configure the flow's input parameters

  • See a summary of the configuration before running it

  • Run the configured flow

  • See on which CIs the flow was executed, and on which CIs it was not

  Running the Automation Flow is possible only when all mandatory input parameters have input values.

• Execution History. This section displays the actual flows from the Available Flows section that have been run on the selected CI and CIs in its environment. It displays the status of each run, the date when the flow was run, and on which CI it was run.

  For all flows with the status Canceled, Ended, Finished, or Unknown, the user can re-run the flow using the menu on the right side of the Automation Flow history record. Each execution has a Response Report that opens the OO report related to the specific execution. This OO report can also be opened from the menu on the right side of the Automation Flow history record.