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Orchestrator Views in the Run Perspective
From the Run perspective in the Orchestrator client, you can schedule tasks, manage policies, run
workflows, access the inventory, and manage permissions.
View Description
My Orchestrator Summarizes the most recent activities on the Orchestrator server, such as recently modified elements,
pending and running workflows, running policies, completed workflows, and workflows that are
waiting for user interaction.
You can use the My Orchestrator view to perform common administrative tasks, such as running a
workflow, importing a package, and setting root access rights.
Scheduler Displays a list of all scheduled workflows in the system. The workflows are sorted by name or date,
together with their status.
You can use the Scheduler view to create, edit, suspend, resume, and cancel scheduled workflows.
Policies Displays existing policies.
You can use the Policies view to create and apply policies.
Workflows Provides access to the Orchestrator workflow library.
You can use the Workflows view to view information about each workflow, create, edit, and run
workflows, as well as to interact with the workflows.
Inventory Displays the objects of the plug-ins that are enabled in Orchestrator.
You can use the Inventory view to run workflows on an inventory object.
Orchestrator Views in the Design Perspective
From the Design perspective in the Orchestrator client, you can create and modify workflows and actions.
You can also manage resources, configuration elements, and policy templates.
View Description
Workflows Provides access to the Orchestrator workflow library.
You can use the Workflows view to view information about each workflow, create, edit, and run
workflows, as well as to interact with the workflows.
Actions Provides access to the libraries of predefined actions.
You can use the Actions view to duplicate actions, export them to a file, or move them to a different
module in the actions hierarchical list.
Resources Provides access to the list of resource elements.
You can use the Resources view to import external objects such as images, sysprep files, HTML
templates, XML templates, and custom scripts, and use them as resource elements in workflows and
Web views.
Configurations Provides access to the available configuration elements.
You can use the Actions view to create configuration elements to define common attributes across an
Orchestrator server.
Packages Displays a list of the available packages and where a selected package is used.
You can use the Packages view to add, import, export, and synchronize packages.
Inventory Displays the objects of the plug-ins that are enabled in Orchestrator.
You can use the Inventory view to run workflows on an inventory object.
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