Workflow

You can configure a workflow for a specified item.

Workflow

A workflow can include multiple stages which the custom settings are configured, and each stage is processed sequentially after the preceding stage has finished.
Once the workflow is configured, when a new image is created for the item, then the workflow starts processing for the newly created image. Go to [Bucket View] tab - [Image Set] list, right-click an image alias and select [Status of Workflow], so you can monitor the status of the workflow.

Images to Process

If the item for which the workflow is configured has subordinate items, the images contained in those items are also processed.
When [Customize Workflow] is enabled with a subordinate item, the items at that level are not subject to processing.

To include the item again in the workflow configured for the parent level, disable this setting at the subordinate level.

When Workflow settings are edited / changed after starting the Workflow

Editing or changing the settings updates the workflow version. The updated workflow starts when a new image is created.

The workflow processing for images that started before the version update remains unchanged after the update.

When images already existed before the Workflow is configured

By default, configuring a workflow does not start the workflow for existing images.

To include an existing image in the workflow, go to the [Bucket View] tab - [Image Set] list, right-click the desired image alias in the [Image Set List], select [Workflow Status], and click [Start Workflow].

Stage

Select the item to configure settings, and then select the [Workflow Settings] tab to add it.

The stages are respectively processed in sequential order. The order of the stages can be changed by dragging and dropping them.

When multiple stages are configured, if processing fails at a stage where [Continue Workflow on Failure] is disabled, subsequent stages are not processed. Enabling [Continue Workflow on Failure] option continues to process the subsequent stage if processing at the current stage fails.

Task Type

You can configure the settings for the following task type.

• ImageVerify
• Consolidation
• BootCheck
• Replication

For more details about the respective tasks, please access here.

In a workflow with a stage configured to perform Consolidation, if a new image is created while processing for an existing image is in progress, the workflow for the new image remains in a pending state.
Or, when BootCheck is configured in the stage before running Consolidation task, if a new image is created while BootCheck is being performed on an existing image and BootCheck process is in progress for the new image, Consolidation process will not start even after BootCheck for the existing image is completed. Consolidation process starts only after BootCheck for the new image is completed.

Schedule

If the schedule settings are not configured, creating a new image triggers the workflow, and each stage is processed in sequence. The following settings can be configured to control the timing when the processing should be performed for each stage.

The schedule name can be changed to any name by clicking icon.
After changing the schedule name, click the icon to confirm it.

You can select the schedule type from the following.

• Delayed
  When a new image is created, processing starts after the specified delay.

• Monthly
  You can specify the day of the month and time window when processing can start. Images created outside the specified date / time window wait until the specified start time and are then processed for that stage.

• Weekly
  You can specify the date and time when processing can start on weekly basis. Images created outside the specified date / time wait until the specified start time and are then processed for that stage.

• Day of the Week
  You can specify the days of the week and the date / time when processing can start. Images created outside the specified date / time wait until the specified start time and are then processed for that stage.

• Specified Date
  You can specify the date and time window when processing can start. Images created outside the specified date / time wait until the specified start time and are then processed for that stage.

When selecting a type other than [Delay] and setting the shortest execution time window for the specified day, set the end time as [Start Time + 1 minute]. Note that when this is configured for Stage 2 or later, processing will not start until the previous stage has completed.

When a type other than [Delay] is selected and the same value is set for the start and end times, the execution window is 24 hours from the start time.

To add a schedule, click [Add new time range].
Unnecessary schedules can be deleted by clicking . An unnecessary schedule can be disabled instead of deleting its schedule settings.

For images created while the schedule is disabled, the workflow starts with that stage’s schedule disabled. When enabling the schedule again, the workflow is enabled for the images newly created after that.

If both delayed execution and other settings are configured for the same stage, delayed execution settings are applied to images created outside the process time window.
Processing starts immediately for the images newly created within the processing time window.
If the scheduled start time is reached while waiting for delayed execution time, the process starts at the scheduled start time.

When an execution window is configured, if multiple unprocessed images exist when the stage reaches its start time, the tasks configured for the stage are executed for the unprocessed images.

Status of the Stages

Go to [Bucket View] tab - [Image Set] list, and right-click an image to select [Workflow Status] to monitor the status.

• Clicking for a stage ignores the schedule settings configured for that stage and starts processing when the process for the preceding stage completes.

• Hover over the status icon displayed for the task type in the respective stage, then click to start processing for that stage immediately.

• Clicking for a completed workflow resets the results of the respective stages and rolls the workflow back to a state where it is waiting to be executed.

• Click [Cancel] to cancel every stages.

[Queued] indicates that processing is in wait because the maximum number of concurrent operations has been reached.