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Skills are useful when a particular workow requires a DEM installed on a host with specic prerequisites.
For example, you may want to restrict cloud provisioning workows to a specic DEM running on a host
with the required network access to Amazon URLs.
Skills can also be used to associate workows with a particular data center location. For example, you might
install one DEM in your Boston data center and another in your London data center, and use skills to direct
certain operations to one data center or the other.
Associate Workflows and DEM Workers by Using Skills
You associate workows with a specic DEM Worker or set of Worker instances by adding a skill to the
Model Manager and then associating the skill with one or more workows and DEM Workers.
Prerequisites
Launch the vRealize Automation Designer console.
Procedure
1 On the ribbon, click Manage Skills.
2 In the text eld at the upper left of the Manage Skills dialog, type the name of a new skill and click the
Add buon.
The skill name must be unique. If the name of the new skill matches the name of an existing skill, the
Add buon is unavailable.
3 Select the name of the skill in the list on the left.
4 Associate the skill with one or more DEM Workers.
a
Click the Add icon ( ) next to Distributed Execution Managers.
b In the Select DEMs dialog, select one or more DEM Worker instances.
c Click OK.
5 Associate the skill with one or more Workows.
a
Click the Add icon ( ) next to Workows.
b In the Select Workows dialog, select one or more workows.
c Click OK.
The workows associated with this skill can only be executed by the DEM Workers that are associated
with this skill.
6 When you are done adding skills and associating them with DEM workers and workows, click OK to
close the Manage Skills dialog and save your changes to the Model Manager.
Remove Associations between Skills and DEM Workers
When you remove the association between a skill and a DEM Worker, that Worker instance can no longer
execute the workows associated with the skill.
Prerequisites
Launch the vRealize Automation Designer console.
Procedure
1 On the ribbon, click Manage Skills.
2 In the Manage Skills dialog, select the name of the skill in the list on the left.
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