Orchestration Monitor overview
The Orchestration Monitor gives you granular control over your plan, enabling you to take direct action over every item.
The Orchestration Monitor is a
UI section
that functions like a control hub that oversees all of your workload associated with a
specific engine. From there, you can monitor:
- Workstations
- Workflows
- Tasks
- Event sources
- Resources
- Endpoints
Monitored items
- Workstations
- You can monitor the availability and connection status of the computing resources where your tasks run. For each workstation, you can view the State (such as Linked or Unlinked) and operational flags (such as Ignored). You can also perform actions such as Set Online (Link) to establish a connection or Set Offline (Unlink) to disconnect a workstation to prevent task submission.
- Workflows
- For each workflow, you can view the State, the scheduled start time, and dependency information. You can also perform actions such as Release to force a workflow to proceed, Cancel to stop processing, or Submit to launch new instances.
- Tasks
- For each task, you can view the State, return codes, and task logs. You can also perform actions such as Rerun to restart failed tasks, Kill to stop tasks, or Confirm to manually validate completion.
- Event sources
- You can monitor the status of the plug-ins configured to receive external events. For each event source, you can view the Status (Online or Offline) and the Actual status (such as Connected, Listening, or Error). You can also perform actions such as Set Online to enable event listening or Set Offline to disable it.
- Resources
- You can monitor the usage levels of the physical or logical assets required by your workload dependencies. For each resource, you can view the Total units defined, the units currently In Use, and the Available units. You can also perform actions such as Change resource to update the available quantity to manage workflow throughput.
- Endpoints
- You can monitor the health and connectivity of your external system connections. For each endpoint, you can view the Status (Online or Offline) and the Actual status (Available, Error, or Unknown) derived from automated connectivity tests. You can also perform actions such as Set Online to enable task submission or Set Offline to pause operations on a specific endpoint.
- Queries
- You can use queries to search for specific items, and from there you can take direct control by performing manually a range of actions, depending on which item you have queried. Queries can also be saved and shared with other users or groups, to speed up your monitoring operations.
- Tree view
- The tree view enables workload monitoring through the folders that contain the items in the plan. The tree view is updated in real time, always showing the up to date folder system that contains the monitored items.
- Dependencies
- The Dependencies action shows all the dependencies of tasks and workflows displayed graphically as a tile system. Dependencies can be manually released or edited for the tasks and workflows in the plan.
- Operator instructions
- When monitoring tasks and workflows, operators can access the Operator instructions panel from the More actions menu to retrieve definition information from the Description and Documentation fields. The availability of this information within the Orchestration Monitor facilitates rapid comprehension of task or workflow parameters during monitoring activities.
For more information on how to use the Orchestration Monitor, see this Orchestration Monitor scenario