Oncommand Workflow Automation 5.0 Installation and Setup Guide For
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OnCommand® Work¯ow Automation 5.0 Installation and Setup Guide for Linux® March 2019 | 215-13304_B0 [email protected] Table of Contents | 3 Contents Overview of OnCommand Workflow Automation .................................... 5 OnCommand Workflow Automation deployment architecture .................................. 5 OnCommand Workflow Automation installation and setup overview ........................ 6 Known limitations for OnCommand Workflow Automation ...................................... 7 System requirements for installing OnCommand Workflow Automation ............................................................................................... 8 Ports required for Workflow Automation .................................................................... 9 Prerequisites for installing Workflow Automation .................................. 11 Installing Perl modules on CentOS and RHEL ......................................................... 12 Installing OnCommand Workflow Automation on Linux ...................... 14 Managing high availability ........................................................................ 17 Setting up Workflow Automation in VCS for high availability ................................ 17 Configuring VCS to install OnCommand Workflow Automation ................ 17 Installing OnCommand Workflow Automation on Linux ............................. 18 Configuring Workflow Automation in VCS ................................................. 20 Configuring an earlier version of OnCommand Workflow Automation for high availability ........................................................................................................... 21 Uninstalling Workflow Automation in a VCS environment ..................................... 22 Backing up and restoring the OnCommand Workflow Automation database and configurations on Linux ....................................................................................... 22 Setting up OnCommand Workflow Automation ..................................... 24 Accessing OnCommand Workflow Automation ....................................................... 24 OnCommand Workflow Automation data sources .................................................... 24 Configuring a database user on Active IQ Data Center Manager ................. 25 Setting up a data source ................................................................................. 27 Adding an upgraded Data Center Manager server as a data source .............. 28 Creating local users ................................................................................................... 29 Configuring the credentials of a target system .......................................................... 30 Configuring OnCommand Workflow Automation .................................................... 31 Configuring AutoSupport .............................................................................. 31 Configuring authentication settings .............................................................. 32 Adding Active Directory groups ................................................................... 33 Configuring email notifications ..................................................................... 33 Configuring SNMP ....................................................................................... 34 Configuring Syslog ....................................................................................... 34 Configuring protocols for connecting to remote systems ............................. 35 Disabling the default password policy ...................................................................... 35 Modifying the default password policy ..................................................................... 36 Enabling or disabling remote access to the OnCommand Workflow Automation database ............................................................................................................... 36 4 | Installation and Setup Guide for Linux Modifying the transaction timeout setting of OnCommand Workflow Automation .......................................................................................................... 37 Configuring the timeout value for Workflow Automation ........................................ 37 Upgrading from OnCommand Workflow Automation 3.1 or later ....... 38 Pack identification during upgrade ............................................................................ 38 Upgrading third-party products ............................................................... 40 Upgrading JRE on Linux ........................................................................................... 40 Upgrading MySQL on Linux .................................................................................... 41 Backing up the OnCommand Workflow Automation database ............ 42 Backing up the WFA database from the web portal .................................................. 43 Backing up the WFA database using the CLI ........................................................... 43 Backing up (full) the WFA database using the CLI ...................................... 43 Backing up (regular) the WFA database using the CLI ................................ 44 Backing up the WFA database using REST APIs ..................................................... 44 Performing a full backup of the WFA database using REST APIs ............... 45 Performing a regular backup of the WFA database using REST APIs ......... 45 Restoring the OnCommand Workflow Automation database ............... 46 Restoring the WFA database ..................................................................................... 46 Restoring the WFA database using the CLI .............................................................. 47 Restoring (full) the WFA database using the CLI ......................................... 47 Restoring (regular) the WFA database using the CLI ................................... 48 Restoring the WFA database using REST APIs ........................................................ 48 Restoring (full) the WFA database using REST APIs .................................. 48 Restoring (regular) the WFA database using REST APIs ............................. 49 Resetting the admin password created during installation .................... 50 Importing OnCommand Workflow Automation content ....................... 51 Considerations while importing OnCommand Workflow Automation content ........ 51 Migrating the OnCommand Workflow Automation installation ........... 53 Uninstalling OnCommand Workflow Automation ................................. 54 Managing OnCommand Workflow Automation SSL certificate ........... 55 Replacing the default Workflow Automation SSL certificate ................................... 55 Creating a certificate signing request for Workflow Automation ............................. 56 Managing Perl and Perl modules .............................................................. 58 Configuring your preferred Perl distribution ............................................................. 58 Troubleshooting installation and configuration issues ............................ 59 Cannot view Performance Advisor data in WFA ...................................................... 59 Creating a support case for OnCommand Workflow Automation ............................ 59 Related documentation for OnCommand Workflow Automation ......... 60 Copyright .................................................................................................... 61 Trademark .................................................................................................. 62 How to send comments about documentation and receive update notifications ............................................................................................ 63 Index ............................................................................................................. 64 5 Overview of OnCommand Workflow Automation OnCommand Workflow Automation (WFA) is a software solution that helps to automate storage management tasks, such as provisioning, migration, decommissioning, data protection configurations, and cloning storage. You can use WFA to build workflows to complete tasks that are specified by your processes. WFA supports ONTAP. A workflow is a repetitive and procedural task that consists of sequential steps, including the following types of tasks: • Provisioning, migrating, or decommissioning storage for databases or file systems • Setting up a new virtualization environment, including storage switches and datastores • Setting up storage for an application as part of an end-to-end orchestration process Storage architects can define workflows to follow best practices and meet organizational requirements, such as the following: • Using required naming conventions • Setting unique options for storage objects • Selecting resources • Integrating internal configuration management database (CMDB) and ticketing applications WFA features • Designer portal to build workflows The designer portal includes several building blocks, such as commands, templates, finders, filters, and functions, that are used to create workflows. The designer enables you to include advanced capabilities to workflows such as automated resource selection, row repetition (looping), and approval points. The designer portal also includes building blocks, such as dictionary entries, cache queries, and data source types, for caching data from external