Welcome
Orchestrating
Orchestrate anything with HCL Universal Orchestrator.
Variable table definition
Variables are values that can change according to the purpose of workflows and task templates.

What's new
The What's new section tracks the capabilities delivered across each HCL Universal Orchestrator release, organized by version, so you can navigate directly to the features relevant to your deployment.
Getting started with HCL Universal Orchestrator
HCL Universal Orchestrator is a cloud-native workload orchestration and scheduling platform built on Kubernetes. Its microservices-based architecture enables the centralized orchestration of multi-cloud and hybrid environments from a single point of control.
Deploying and Administrating
All the information you need to deploy and administrate HCL Universal Orchestrator.
Using the UI
The UI is the HCL Universal Orchestrator interface, from which you can design your scheduling environment and monitor every process.
Orchestrating
Orchestrate anything with HCL Universal Orchestrator.
- Orchestration CLI commands
  You can use the various command options in Orchestration CLI to achieve specific results. The command options are not case sensitive and you can use either uppercase or lowercase letters.
- Workflow definition
  A workflow is a set of tasks to be run, together with times, priorities, and other dependencies that define the processing order.
- Task definition
  A task definition is a unit of work that specifies an action to be performed on specific workstations in the HCL Universal Orchestrator network.
- Cross dependencies definition
  Cross dependencies enable you to define dependencies between workflows running on different orchestration engines.
- Event source definition
  An event source is an item that allows HCL Universal Orchestrator to receive events from specific event plug-ins.
- Endpoint definition
  An endpoint is a reusable item that defines the connection parameters required to communicate with an external system.
- Calendar definition
  Calendars define the days in which workflows do or do not run.
- Folder definition
  You can use folders to organize your items accordingly to your business needs.
- Credentials definition
  Credential definitions are used to store user IDs and passwords, or tokens.
- Variable table definition
  Variables are values that can change according to the purpose of workflows and task templates.
  - Managing a variable table definition from the Orchestration CLI
  - Managing a variable table definition from the UI
    The purpose of the following scenario is to show how to create a variable table definition in the context of an example.
- Run cycle group definition
  You can schedule workflows based on common run cycle groups.
- Workstation definition
  A workstation is a scheduling item that runs tasks.
- Resource definition
  A resource is an item that represents a quantifiable asset, measured in terms of units. You can add resources as dependencies in tasks or workflows.
- Event plug-in structure
- Communicating with the AI agent
- Managing matching criteria
  In this topic you can find a description of matching criteria.
- Parsing OCLI files in streaming
  HCL Universal Orchestrator enables you to add or replace files containing multiple item types through OCLI in a single command.
- Data exchange and transformation
  This topic explains how you can streamline your workflows using data exchange and transformation.
- Changing the default editor for Orchestration CLI
  To customize the editing experience in HCL Universal Orchestrator, you can modify the default editor by setting the visual or editor environment variables.
Orchestrating from Mobile
You can use your mobile devices to manage quickly and easily your whole HCL Universal Orchestrator environment.
Monitoring
Take your environment under control.
Using REST API
Use REST APIs to easily integrate workload scheduling capabilities with external products and solutions.
Administering multitenancy for service providers
Configure and administer a HCL Universal Orchestrator multitenant environment.
Uno AI Pilot
Welcome to the HCL Universal Orchestrator AI Pilot documentation. This resource is designed to guide you through everything you need to know about using UnO AI Pilot effectively. You will find detailed instructions, feature overviews, and helpful tips to ensure you get the best experience with UnO AI Pilot.
UnO Agentic AI Builder
Troubleshooting
Recover your environment if any issue occurs.
Notices

Variable table definition

Variables are values that can change according to the purpose of workflows and task templates.

You can assign variables to a workflow or task template. When they run, those variables are automatically processed. For more information about variable passing, see Passing variables between tasks.

A variable table is a scheduling item defined in the database, that can be used only by authorized users. Variable tables group multiple variables and are particularly useful in job definitions that are referenced in different job streams.

In task template and workflow definitions you can use variables that can be maintained centrally in the database on the server.

The scheduler has a default variable table in which all new or edited variables are stored when you do not assign a specific variable table.

The variable name is unique inside the variable table, though you can use the same variable name in different tables. Variable tables can be assigned to workflow, run cycles, and workstations.

Variable tables can be managed from the Orchestration CLI and from the UI. For more information about variable table definitions, see:

Variable table security

Access to a variable table is controlled by the following security actions: DISPLAY enables viewing the variable entries; USE enables referencing the table in workflow and task definitions and implicitly includes DISPLAY access; MODIFY enables adding, modifying, deleting, and renaming entries; UNLOCK releases a locked table. For the full security action matrix, see Actions on security items.

CAUTION: Do not store sensitive or confidential values in variable tables. Variable values are recorded as part of the run context snapshot when a task runs. Any user with permission to view the corresponding plan item can read those values, regardless of whether they have direct access to the variable table. For more information, see Viewing the run context of a task.