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HCL Universal Orchestrator V2.1
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  2. Welcome
  3. Orchestrating

    Orchestrate anything with HCL Universal Orchestrator.

  4. Event plug-in structure
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  • What's new

    HCL Universal Orchestrator is constantly evolving to offer you the most comprehensive orchestration capabilities. For known limitations, workarounds, and contact information of HCL Customer Support, see Release notes.

  • What is HCL Universal Orchestrator

    An introductory overview of HCL Universal Orchestrator.

  • 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 smoothly 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.

    • Event source definition

      An event source is an item that allows HCL Universal Orchestrator to receive events from specific event plug-ins.

    • 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.

    • Workstation definition

      A workstation is a scheduling item that runs tasks.

    • Event plug-in structure
      • Webhook plug-in structure

        In this topic you can find information about configuring Webhook event sources and Webhook event conditions.

      • AWS SQS plug-in structure

        In this topic you can find information about configuring AWS SQS event sources and AWS SQS event conditions.

      • Kafka plug-in structure

        In this topic you can find information about configuring Kafka event sources and Kafka event conditions.

      • GCP events plug-in structure

        In this topic you can find information about configuring GCP event sources and GCP event conditions.

      • Azure plug-in structure

        In this topic you can find information about configuring AzureEvents event sources and AzureEvents event conditions.

      • File events

        You can customize the orchestration event conditions with file events to create a trigger in the workflow. When the event conditions met, it triggers the workflow and submits the associated tasks. You can customize the event conditions to create multiple triggers and extend the functionality.

      • Orchestration events

        Orchestration event monitors the different statuses of tasks, workflows and workstations to initiate the submission of a workflow. You can create multiple scenarios of event conditions by configuring different statuses of these scheduling items.

      • Event driven orchestration configuration attributes
    • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Troubleshooting

    Recover your environment if any issue occurs.

  • Notices
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Event plug-in structure

HCL Universal Orchestrator uses event plug-ins to enable an event driven orchestration.

Each event plug-in has its own defined structure, in which you can find all the necessary information to define event sources and the events they need to receive. The event plug-ins currently supported are:
  • Webhook
  • AWSEvents
  • Kafka
  • GCPEvents
  • AzureEvents
  • File events

For more detailed information, see Event driven orchestration configuration attributes.

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