Automation Center Documentation

Monitoring Workflows

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Overview

OpsWise Automation Center allows you to monitor running workflows in graphical format. As the workflow progresses, the display provides up-to-date textual and color-coded status information for each task. You can also intervene in processing where necessary.

To Monitor a Running Workflow

  1. Select Automation Center > Activity from the navigation pane.
  2. Locate the workflow you want to monitor. A workflow must already be running in order for you to view its status.
  3. Click on the underlined Instance Name of the workflow. The workflow monitor opens, as shown in the following example. Click the Console icon image:ops console.gif to display the console.

    4. image:ops_running workflow.gif

Status Color Coding

For each task, the display provides its current status with an associated color. You can customize the colors used for each status. The following table shows the default color for each status, along with the status value you will need if you change the color.

Status Status Value Default Color
Defined 0 Grey
Waiting 10 Gold
Held 20 Dark Orange
Resource Wait 30 Tomato
Action Required 60 Dark Orange
Queued 40 Coral
Step Restarted 45
Started 70 Yellow-Green
Running 80 Green
Running Problems 81 Red
Cancel Pending 99 Magenta
In Doubt 110 Orange-red
Success 200 Blue
Finished 190 Cornflower Blue
Failed 140 Red
Cancelled 130 Magenta
Start Failure 120 Red
Skipped 180 Royal Blue

Follow the instructions below to change status colors. You may need administrative privileges to perform this procedure.

  1. Select Configuration > Chart Colors.
  2. Scroll to the entries for the Element "status_code". Each entry represents a color specification for a particular status. The status is identified by the number in the Value field. The table above identifies the Status Value for each status.

    3. image:ops status code colors.gif

  3. Locate the entry for the status you want to change. For example, to change the color associated with "Running" status, locate the entry with an Element of "status_code" and a Value of 80.
  4. Open the record by clicking on the Name (ops_exec) in the leftmost column. The example below shows the entry for value "80", which is associated with "Running" status.

    5. image:ops running is green.gif

  5. Click on the magnifying glass to select a color or add a new color definition. Or, use the Color field to enter a hex representation for a color.
  6. Click Submit.

Task Type Icons

Each task type has an associated icon with it, along with the name of the task below it. Shown below are the icons associated with each task type.

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Status Icon Mode

If you prefer, you can switch the mode of your running workflows so that the icons displayed represent status instead of task type.

To switch modes, click the Toggle Vertex Style icon image:vertex_style_gifx.gif. The workflow switches into status icon mode, as shown in the example below.

image:ops running workflow status icons.gif

Manually Intervening in a Workflow

You can take action on a task in a running workflow by right-clicking the task and selecting a command from the command list. For more information, see Manually Running and Controlling Tasks. When you issue a command from the command list, the Console window automatically opens and displays processing information.

Displaying Processing Information

To display details about task instance processing while you monitor the workflow, click the Console image:ops console.gif icon.

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