Who should attend
This course is recommended for:
- Operators
- Developers
- Administrators
Prerequisites
- Knowledge of networking terms and concepts
- Knowledge of web browsers and Telnet or SSH connection methods
- Knowledge of different operating system environments
Course Objectives
After completing this course, you should be able to:
- Run and manage automated workflows using HP Operations Orchestration (OO) 10.x
- Perform a wide range of system administration, monitoring, and management tasks using OO Central
- Author, maintain, document, and deploy new automated workflows using OO Studio
- Design a flow for integrating a web service provider using OO
- Integrate content for other tools (such as HP Server Automation and HP Service Manager) using OO
Course Content
Module 1: Course Overview and Introduction to HP Operations Orchestration
- Describe OO and its key benefits
- Explain the functional architecture of OO
- Discuss role-based privileges in OO
- Discuss the key capabilities of OO
- Describe collaborative development in OO
- Define content packs, operations, and projects
- Discuss the improvements in OO 10.x
Module 2: Working with Flow Authoring
- Describe the HP Operations Orchestration (OO) Studio flow authoring environment
- Explain the components of the OO Studio application
- Explain a flow and describe the main components of a flow
- Author a simple flow
- Test the flow in the OO Studio debugger
- Modify a flow and test the modified flow
Module 3: Working with Inputs
- Explain inputs and flow variables
- Define inputs in the Inspector window
- Use input data flow options
- Add, remove, replace, and disable inputs
- Create and assign system properties to inputs
- Use login credentials with a stored system account
- Create and use a selection list as an input
- Validate an input using a created system evaluator
- Work with flow inputs
Module 4: Working with Results and Filters
- Explain how to use results to create flow variables that contain operation outputs
- Use the Step Inspector window’s Results tab to add results to steps
- Use the Filter Inspector window to filter a result so only the data required by the flow is assigned to a result flow variable
- Use assignment actions to specify which action is taken for assigning the final result
Module 5: Administration and Maintenance with OO Central
- Explain the role of OO Central in deploying automated workflows
- Describe the OO Central UI
- Deploy projects and dependencies
- Run flows, monitor progress, and evaluate results
- Set flow permissions
- View the dashboard and reports
- Visualize a deployed workflow
- Enable authentication and add local users
- Set the security banner
Module 6: Working with Source Control Management (SCM)
- Summarize the features of source control management (SCM) in HP Operations Orchestration (OO)
- Set up an SCM repository
- Create an SCM repository
- Create a local project
- Link OO Studio to the SCM repository
- Check out a repository
- Work with SCM
- Add a project in SCM
- Commit changes to the SCM repository
- Update a workspace from SCM
- Lock and unlock OO content Explain additional functions of SCM
- Explain additional functions of SCM
Module 7: Working with Operations and Subflows
- Explain how operations and subflows are used as steps in a flow
- Create new operations
- Modify operation properties
- Use subflows in a parent flow
- Explain best practices for working with subflows
- Assign step results in a subflow to output fields for use in the parent flow
- Work with the Properties editor of a subflow
Module 8: Working with Looping and Iteration Operations
- Explain how HP Operations Orchestration (OO) handles iterations and related tasks, such as list compilation
- Perform looping, iteration, and related tasks for the content in the OO library
- Author a flow that uses iteration and list compilation
- Create a flow that uses the counter operation
