UnO AI Pilot Runs Action on Your Behalf

At UnO AI Pilot startup, or when you enter the "What can you do?" conversation flow, you can view the smart cards representing the categories of actions that UnO AI Pilotcan run on your behalf.

Managing your workload

You (as an operator) can submit a task or modify a task execution by running the following actions:

  • Rerun a task - to rerun a task that is in error status.

  • Submit a task - to submit a predefined task. For details, see Submit a task.

  • Submit a workflow - to submit a predefined workflow for processing.

  • Cancel a task - to cancel a task before it is launched.

  • Release a task - to release a task from dependencies.

  • Change the priority of a task - to change the order of running of a task.

  • Release all dependencies of a task -. to release all the dependencies of a task.

  • Change the limit of a workstation - to change the maximum number of tasks running concurrently on that workstation.

  • Link a workstation - to link a workstation of a task.

Monitoring and environment info

You (as an administrator) can get information about scheduled tasks by running the following actions:

  • Get the log of a task - to view the log of a task and download it.

  • Get the status of a task - to retrieve information about the current status of a task. For the completed tasks, you can get the task log or rerun them if completed with errors.

  • Monitor a task - to monitor a task and receive a notification when the task status changes. For details, see Monitor a task.

  • Get the status of a workflow- to retrieve information about the current status of a workflow.

  • Monitor a workflow- to monitor a workflow and receive a notification when the workflow status changes.

  • Get the overall status of the current plan - to retrieve information about the status of all the tasks in the current plan. For details, see Get the status of the current plan.

  • Get the status of a workstation - to search for a workstation and see its status.

  • Get the UnO version/release of your environment - retrieve information about the current version or release of UnO installed in your environment.

Self-Service Catalog

You (as an operator or administrator) can manage the workload in the Self-Service Catalog by running the following action:

  • Submit a service from the catalog - For details, see Submit a service from Self-service Catalog.

Note: When you run an action, UnO AI Pilot leverages the authentication mechanism of UnO. If a user is not authorized to run an action in UnO, UnO AI Pilot returns an error.

Searching for a task

For all the actions dealing with tasks, such as Submit a task or Monitor a task, when you start the action, the conversation flow to identify the task is as follows:

  1. UnO AI Pilot asks for the task name and shows the list of all tasks in the current environment.

  2. Select a task from the list or, if you remember the task name (full or partial), type it in the input field. You can filter the task names in different ways:

    • By using the "*" wildcard anywhere in your search string. You can use more than one "*" wildcard in your search string.

    • By typing the name (full or partial) of the workstation where the task has been defined.

    • By typing the name of the workflow (full or partial) that contains the task.

    • By typing the name of the folder. For example, type /folder_name/* to get all tasks in the folder_name folder.

      Filters can be combined all together.

      Otherwise, click one of the following tips:

    • Cancel - to cancel the action

    • Search by name - to search the task by providing the name (full or partial) of:

      • The task itself.

      • The workstation where the task has been defined.

      • The workflow that contains the task.

      • The folder.

      Note: You can also search name by using * for partial name search (for example NAME* finds NAME1, NAME2, and so on).

  • Search by folder - to search the task by folder name. If you know the folder name, type /folder_name/* in the input field to get all tasks in the folder_name folder.

    Note:
    You can always search by folder by using the / (slash) and the * (wildcard asterisk) in your message (for example /FOLDER/*). For items in folder you can search by typing */*NAME*. For example */*NAME* finds NAME1, /FOLDER1/NAME2, /FOLDER1/FOLDER2/NAME.
  • Show me more tasks button to see more tasks.

The process of searching for an item is technically called entity recognition process. In UnO AI Pilot, it is based on data extraction and caching of the information related to your environment. In this way, UnO AI Pilot is always aware of the conversation context and can easily identify the names of tasks, job streams and workstations at any moment, making the conversation faster and smarter.

Submit a task

To submit a task with UnO AI Pilot, run the following steps:

  1. Select Managing your workload > Submit a task.

  2. Identify the task to submit by following the Searching for a task conversation flow.

  3. UnO AI Pilot asks for the task alias. Click the tip No alias if you don't want to set a task alias.

  4. UnO AI Pilot asks for the workflow and shows a list of job streams for submitting the task.

  5. Type a workflow name or select one from the list. You can filter the workflow names by using the "*" wildcard anywhere in your search string.

  6. UnO AI Pilot asks for the workstation name and shows the list of the workstations in the current environment.

  7. Type a workstation name or select one from the list. You can filter the workstation names by using the "*" wildcard anywhere in your search string.

  8. UnO AI Pilot asks for a confirmation about the action on the selected task.

  9. Click Yes to confirm.

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Some steps of the above conversation might be skipped by UnO AI Pilot if, based on the entity recognition process, it is already aware of the workflow or workstation name.

At each step of the conversation flow, UnO AI Pilot provides the tip Search by name. By selecting this tip, UnO AI Pilot allows you to search for a workflow or a workstation by providing the full or partial name. You can filter the search result by using the "*" wildcard anywhere in your search string.

For an even quicker interaction, you can type your entire command in the input field. For example:

Submit task task_name in workflow_name on workstation_name with alias alias.

Monitor a task

UnO AI Pilot can monitor a task and send you notifications when the task status changes.

To receive UnO AI Pilot notifications, you must first enable notifications in your browser. For details, see: How to enable persistent notifications. If you skip this step, UnO AI Pilot warns you with a message and provides a button to enable the notifications.

To monitor a task and receive UnO AI Pilot notifications, run the following steps:

  1. Select Monitoring and environment info > Monitor a task.

  2. When required by UnO AI Pilot, provide the task name, the workflow name, and the workstation name for the task you want to monitor. For details, see Searching for atask.

  3. UnO AI Pilot starts monitoring the task. She checks the task status at time intervals depending on the estimated duration of the task, and notifies every status change.

  4. A red dot appears on the bell on the chat header meaning that you have unread notifications.

  5. To view the notification messages, click the bell. A panel appears, showing the notification queue. A maximum number of 10 notifications is kept for a week.

  6. For each notification, you can run the following actions:

    • Hide - to hide the notification.

    • Stop monitoring (only for tasks not yet completed) - to stop monitoring the task.

  7. By clicking on each notification, you can get the timestamp of when the status change occurred.

Get the status of the current plan

As an administrator, you might need to check the status of the current plan. Run the following steps:

  1. Select Monitoring and environment info > Get the overall status of the current plan

  2. UnO AI Pilot provides an interactive segmented donut chart where each color corresponds to a task status. By clicking each segment of the chart, you get the number of tasks in that specific status.

Submit a service from Self-Service Catalog

Ensure you have access to the Self-Service Catalog, otherwise contact UnO administrator.

When you select the Self-Service Catalog action, UnO AI Pilot shows all the services available in the Self-Service Catalog.

  1. Select the service that you want to submit.

  2. Mandatory and optional parameters are displayed by UnO AI Pilot with default values, if any.

  3. You can submit the service with default parameter values or you can provide your custom values. Select a parameter to set or change its value. A link to Self-Service Catalog is provided if you want to modify the parameters and submit the service from there.

  4. Click Submit service.

  5. Click the suggested action Monitor this service to ask UnO AI Pilot to monitor the service execution for you and send a notification when the service status changes.
    Note: Remember to enable UnO AI Pilot to send notifications.

  6. UnO AI Pilot will notify you when the status of your submitted service change.