Owner's Manual

Configuring the Maintenance Mode Activity

To configure the Maintenance Mode activity:

1. From the Activities pane, drag a Maintenance Mode activity to the active runbook.

2. Double-click the Maintenance Mode activity.

The Properties dialog box is displayed.

3. Configure the Properties tab, for more information, see Configure the Properties tab.

4. For information about the settings on the General and Run Behavior tabs, see Common Configuration Instructions

for All Activities .

5. Click Finish.

Configuring the Run Operation Activity

To configure the Run Operation activity:

NOTE: Excluding the initial Auth parameter, which is handled by the Run Operation activity, you must match the

AimWS parameters exactly. For example, when invoking the LockPersona method you must include optional

property

Parameter 1 and enter the ID of the persona that you want to lock. For more information on the

parameters required for each AimWS method refer to the Dell Advanced Infrastructure Manager Developer's

Guide.

1. From the Activities pane, drag a Run Operation activity to the active runbook.

2. Double-click the Run Operation activity.

The Properties dialog box is displayed.

3. Configure the Properties tab, for more information, see Configure the Properties tab.

4. For information about the settings on the General and Run Behavior tabs, see Common Configuration Instructions

for All Activities .

5. Click Finish.

Configuring the Start Activity

To configure the Start activity:

NOTE: If you do not include the optional Timeout property the activity does not wait for the specified persona or

VMRack to start. Since persona booting takes some time, you can choose to poll the state if you are not using the

timeout property.

1. From the Activities pane, drag a Start activity to the active runbook.

2. Double-click the Start activity.

The Properties dialog box is displayed.

3. Configure the Properties tab, for more information, see Configure the Properties tab.

4. For information about the settings on the General and Run Behavior tabs, see Common Configuration Instructions

for All Activities .

5. Click Finish.