Users Guide

Workflow and Actions

The Dell ASM vRO Integration is prepackaged with a set of sample workflows and actions. These can be used as out of the box to

immediately enable common use cases. They may also be used to serve as examples that can be extended by advanced users.

Underlying actions and API’s are updated, but the workflows provide the same user experience as with versions 1.0 and 1.1.

Workflow

The prepackaged ASM vRO Integration workflow is divided into two types:

• Configuration workflow — These can be used to store and remove ASM appliance configurations within vRO. Appliances can

be viewed in the Inventory panel once it is stored.

• Sample workflow — These samples illustrate the various capabilities of the integration. They are designed to allow users to

immediately begin testing the integration between vRO and their ASM appliance.

Configuration Workflows

Add ASM Appliance:

This workflow asks the user to provide various configuration parameters for the ASM appliance and subsequently persists the

configuration as a vRO resource. Once this workflow has been run successfully, the appliance appears in the inventory and can be

selected as an input for any of the other sample workflows.

Remove ASM Appliance:

This workflow removes the selected appliance from the inventory.

Sample Workflows

The sample workflow is divided into three categories:

• Asynchronous — This workflow is designed to make API calls ASM appliance without waiting for the completion of the

corresponding operations.

• Non-interactive – The workflow is designed without any user inputs, and serves as examples for vRA integration or other

automation purposes.

• Synchronous — The workflow makes use of their asynchronous counterparts but include polling functionality to defer

completion until the corresponding operation either succeeds or fails on the ASM appliance.

Asynchronous

Deploy service

This workflow allows users to deploy a new Service based on the template configuration chosen by the user. This workflow is

completed after making the REST call to the ASM Appliance. The Service status is not tracked.

Scaledown service