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Hi,
I want to schedule the FSRestoreValidation workflow for automated restore testings. Because this workflow is designed for interactive queries, it doesn´t work as anticipated.
My tries to modify the workflow wasn´t successful.
Is there and easy way to modify the workflow to use parameters instead of interactions?
Thank you and best regards Christian
Best answer by Chris Sunderland
View originalThe best thing to do here is to create three workflows. The main workflow will have all the pieces in it which does the work. Then you would have one interactive workflow which is used from the UI’s to gather the information from the user and then calls the main workflow with those parameters. Then the last workflow is the one you would schedule with whatever inputs you need it to have and then calls the main workflow with those parameters.
If need be, you can upload the workflow and I can check and see how this would work with that you have.
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I’ll defer to
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Can you confirm, that the wizard block has to be removed to allow the workflow to be scheduled without an interactive session?
Simply setting defaults in the inputs and disabling the “start interactive session” option end with
“Error Code: [19:857] Description: no interactive session available”
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Ok, that makes things much easier then.
I’ll defer to
It’s a lot easier than it seems. Each part of the Workflow will have various Inputs. These are ;likely set to ‘prompt’ at the moment. You’d just change them in the copy of the WF to your hard coded preference:
https://documentation.commvault.com/11.25/essential/131489_customizing_workflow_input.html
You can view the system variables for this Workflow via these directions:
https://documentation.commvault.com/11.25/essential/131210_viewing_system_variables_of_workflow.html
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In my simple use case, we have one client. The existing workflow is doing the randomization for the file list.
My challenge is simple: schedule an existing workflow with parameters.
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Appreciate the context! So we want a scheduled Workflow to do randomized restores, then send a report on the success/failures.
This brings up a few questions/considerations/possible concerns:
It’s a cool idea for sure. We might have other tools that provide a similar feature, though I’ll have to look a bit.
If anything, this might be a CMR, or a possible job for our Personalization team.
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My customer has the requirement for regular restore tests. For small vms, we schedule virtual lab restores, but the fileserver is to large for this.
Because we have only one fileserver, we can set the variables in the workflow, or submit them as parameter in the schedule.
Our vision is, that the customer get an email every monday, that the restore of 10 random files is fine. He can check the files and has a documented restore test for the auditor.
Thanks in advance.
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Sharing the doc for this Workflow as well:
https://documentation.commvault.com/commvault/v11_sp20/article?p=116356.htm
How do you want to actually use this? I ask because I’d like to know more about how you’d prefer to provide the inputs and see what we can come up with to make that happen.
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