2.3.4 Installing the Workflow-Package

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Last updated: Aug 23, 2024 by Ivan Babich
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Hi! In this guide, you will learn how to install and configure the ACDI Workflow Monitor.

Let’s start by clicking “Import Package,” then “Browse,” and open the SPACDWFM package. Click “OK.” Good. The package is successfully imported.

 

Now you need to add this package to the User Application Driver. Right click, go to “Properties” and then “Packages.”

 

Here in the window select “SKyPRO ACDI Workflow Monitor.”  Click “Apply.”

 

OK, let’s now define the settings for the Workflow Monitor package.

NOTE! Before starting configuring Workflow Monitor, set native User Application Driver`s GCV “Allow Named Password to be retrieved over LDAP” to true

 

Fill out the field “Your ACDI host (without port and protocol).

 

Then move down to the field “Port” and enter the default port here, which is 3190.

 

Opensearch endpoint—the default endpoint is “data_in”.

 

Keep the alias for the writable index default.

 

Here is also the document type field.

You also need to define a user who has access to the Opensearch endpoint and set a password for this user.

 

There are two kinds of workflow monitor templates: with and without loop. For the Audit Workflow with loop, the number of tries needs to be set in case of error sending data to the Opensearch, and you also need to define the pause between send tries. Let’s click “Finish” and apply the settings.  

 

Make sure you check the GCVs and password for the user who has access to the Opensearch endpoint.

 

 

Now go to the “Provisioning” settings, then to “User Application Driver,” “Provisioning Request Definitions,” and in the “Custom templates,” there should be two templates: workflow audit and workflow audit with loop. Let’s open one of them.

Worflow Audit

Here, in the Workflow Audit, you can see a list of activities for a workflow monitoring template.

On the top, there is a start block, and on the bottom, a finish block. In the middle, you see the “Custom Approval” activity you will want to monitor.

If you need to monitor a few branched results from the “Custom Approval”, the finish block needs to be copied a few times, and the name for each step in the block must be changed.

Workflow Audit with loop

Let's now look at the example Workflow Audit with loop.

This is to see that the start and the finish blocks are much more complicated in comparison to the template without loop. But the logic is still the same.

 

You must place the custom approval you want to monitor in the middle between the start and finish blocks. To monitor the branched final of your custom approval, the finish block needs to be copied to each branch of your custom approval and steps for each finish block should be defined.

 

The results can be seen in the NetIQ Workflow Dashboard.

 

Here are displayed all statuses of your monitored workflows.

 

Further, the Workflow Report can be used for this purpose.

 

This is how the ACDI Workflow Monitor is installed and configured. Thank you for your attention and take care.

Should you have any questions or require any assistance, please do not hesitate to contact us at any time swsupport.skypro@skypro.ch