Monitoring Workflows

The Workflow monitor view in the Process Monitoring perspective provides powerful monitoring capabilities for your Workflows. The Workflow monitor is available immediately after the Workflow has started. The Workflow and its tasks are represented as a linked chain of boxes, where each box is a task. Multiple dynamic elements help you understand real-time what is the status of both each task and of the entire Workflow.

As a designer, you use the monitor to check whether the Workflows that you create or modify behave as expected. The monitor allows you to modify the structure and some parameters of the Workflow definition and most of the properties of the tasks. It also lets you add, modify and replace tasks at runtime. These changes apply to that particular execution. When the Workflow has finished, the original settings apply again. If you want your changes to be permanent, you have to change the Workflow definition.

As an operator, you use the monitor to check the progress of the Workflow and analyze why something went wrong. You can monitor any Workflow that you are authorized to work with.

Accessing the Workflow Monitor

You can access the Workflow monitor from the following areas in the Automic Web Interface:

  • Click or middle-click the Open Monitor link that pops up at the top of your screen immediately after executing a Workflow.

  • Process Monitoring perspective

    Right-click the Workflow in the Tasks list and click or middle-click Open Monitor

  • Process Assembly perspective

    Right-click the Workflow that you have executed, select Monitoring > Last Monitor and click or middle-click it

  • Schedule monitor

    (Workflow running as task in a Schedule, provided the Schedule is active and the Workflow has RunID already). Right-click the Workflow in the task list and click or middle-click Open Monitor

  • Global Search

    Right-click the required Workflow in the Tasks section and click or middle-click Open Monitor

  • Your Dashboard

    Right-click the Workflow and click or middle-click Open Monitor

  • The My Catalog on the Activities and History widgets

    Right-click the Workflow and click or middle-click Open Monitor

Tips:

Read Execution Stages and Workflow Logic to learn more about what happens during the execution of a Workflow

To get acquainted with the Workflow monitor, read Workflow Monitor Overview

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