User's Manual

Understanding Orchestration
10-4 Active System Manager User Guide, Release 7.0
Selecting Custom Operations
While building Orchestrations based on custom operations or prior to executing custom operations
explicitly, you are required to provide certain parameter values for selected custom operations. Instead of
manually entering these parameter values, you can choose to select pre-defined values from custom
operations Value Source as defined in Resource Adapter definition.
In Orchestration, a Value Source refers to the Primary Source field. The Primary Source field displays
context sensitive list of values dynamically in a drop-down list, which is populated with possible values
retrieved from a specific value source in corresponding operation defined in the RA. The Sub Type is the
Secondary Source field that further categorizes values based on the selected Primary Source.
Selecting Context-Sensitive Values
To select context-sensitive values, perform the following steps:
1. While creating Orchestration or updating Orchestration while execution, drag an operation to include it
into a step.
The Specify Input Values dialog box displays, containing the following two panes:
• Parameters Pane—Contains general execution details such as operation names and Value field for
entering values against input parameters.
You can either enter these parameter values in Value manually or by selecting value from possible
list of values in from Possible Values pane.
Note The star pre fixed in the icons in Name column of Parameters section, indicates mandatory values
field that you must enter.
• Possible Values Pane Displays all elements contained in selected Value Source.
This panel allows you to choose values from Primary Source and Secondary Source drop-down
list.
Note For information on Value Sources applicable on custom operations, see the “Deleting Resource
Adapters” section on page 7-26.
2. Select a parameter in the Parameters pane.
3. Click the Primary Source in Possible Values pane and select the value source for the selected
parameter; for example, select Software Repository.
4. Click the Secondary Source in Possible Values pane and select the Sub Type of Value Source; for
example, select a particular type of Software Repository.
Note The step 3 on page 10-4 and the step 4 on page 10-4 is for advanced users or administrators. By
default, the Active System Manager software’s RA pre populates the Primary Source and
Secondary Source entries, in most cases. However, step 3 on page 10-4 and step 4 on page 10-4
allow you to select value from Primary Source and Secondary Source from a list of context
specific values.