Stopping an Automation Plan

When you run an Automation Plan, an Automation Plan action is generated to process the Automation Plan. The Automation Plan action then generates step actions, when required, when the preceding step is complete. If you want to stop an Automation Plan that is running, you must stop the Automation Plan action before you stop the step action. To stop a pending Automation Plan action, you must stop the Automation Plan action only.

About this task

To stop an Automation Plan that is running, you must first stop the Automation Plan action, and then stop the open step action. Only one step action is open at any one time.

If you stop an Automation Plan step action without first stopping the Automation Plan action, the Automation Plan Engine continues to process the Automation Plan action, generating new step actions as it does so.

The All Automation Plan Actions dashboard displays all Automation Plan actions, including all scheduled and pending Automation Plan actions, and all Automation Plan step actions. The Automation Plan Actions dashboard displays all Automation Plan actions including all scheduled and pending Automation Plan actions. The Pending Automation Plan Actions dashboard displays pending Automation Plan actions only. The All Automation Plan Step Actions dashboard displays Automation Plan step actions only. From each dashboard, you can stop the displayed actions.

If you stop a pending Automation Plan action, the state of the Automation Plan action is set to stopped and the Automation Plan action will not run at the scheduled time. The stopped Automation Plan action is not displayed on the Pending Automation Plan Actions dashboard. A pending Automation Plan action has no step actions.

Complete the following steps to stop an Automation Plan.

Procedure

To find the Automation Plan action, expand All Automation Plan Actions in the Server Automation domain. Search for and select an Automation Plan action in the All Automation Plan Actions or the Automation Plan Actions dashboards. If you want to stop a pending Automation Plan action, you can search for and select the Automation Plan action in the Pending Automation Plan Actions dashboard.
Right-click the Automation Plan action and click stop. The step action that is in process continues to run and its status does not change to stop. This step action remains open.
To identify an open Automation Plan step action in the stopped Automation Plan:
1. Open the Automation Plan Actions Status dashboard. Search for the Automation Plan action that you stopped. Make a note of the Automation Plan action ID value, in the first column.
2. From the Server Automation domain, expand the All Automation Plan Actions node and click All Automation Plan Step Actions.
3. In the search field on the All Automation Plan Step Actions dashboard, enter the ID value that you noted for the stopped Automation Plan action. The list of steps in the Automation Plan is displayed.
Identify the step action that is open, right-click the action, and click Stop Action.

Results

The Automation Plan and all of the Automation Plan steps are stopped.