HP Insight Orchestration 6.0 User Guide

For some Operations Orchestration flows, Insight Orchestration waits for a user response before moving to
the next step of an infrastructure’s lifecycle (see “Administrative actions”). Insight Orchestration passes a
unique, one time use User Token to these Operations Orchestration flows to Administrator-defined email
recipients. This token is used to authenticate the user response. Insight Orchestration waits until the User
Token is passed back to the Insight Orchestration Service with the correct request ID before moving to the
next step of the infrastructure service’s lifecycle.
By default, these flows send email containing the URL of a response page to the Insight Orchestration
administrator. This URL contains the User Token and the ID of the request. The admin opens the URL in a
web browser, and is given a form that allows them to Continue or Reject the request. Clicking either Continue
or Reject opens a HTTPS connection to the Insight Orchestration service and passes the user token, request
id and requested action. If Insight Orchestration confirms that the user token for the request id is correct,
then Insight Orchestration Continues or Cancels the request as appropriate.
If the User Token was intercepted, it is possible for an unauthorized user to approve, reject, continue or
cancel a step of a request on an infrastructure service. However, an administrator will notice that the
infrastructure service continued without his direct action and could then take steps to correct the problem.
Administrative actions
Administrative Actions are Operations Orchestration Workflow processes invoked during lifecycle of an
infrastructure service.
• Manual OS Deployment—Insight Orchestration waits for Continued or Canceled response from user
• Manual Storage Provisioning—Insight Orchestration waits for Continued or Canceled response from
user
• Manual Storage Removal—Insight Orchestration waits for Continued or Canceled response from user
• Manual Disk Scrubbing—Insight Orchestration waits for Continued or Canceled response from user
• Request Approval—Insight Orchestration waits for Approved or Rejected response from user
• Service Begin Action
• Service End Action
• Global Service End Action
• User Notification
• User Pool Notification
• Service Lease Notification
• Service Recovery
• Service Fail Action
Service actions
Service actions are the stages of infrastructure service that may invoke an Operations Orchestration workflow.
• Create Service Begin (or End)
• Add Servers Begin (or End)
• Add Data Disk Begin (or End)
• Change Lease Begin (or End)
• Standby Servers or Service Begin (or End)
• Resume Servers or Service Begin (or End)
• Delete Service Begin (or End)
Configuration files and URLs used by Insight Orchestration and Operations
Orchestration
• URL of the Operations Orchestration service: https://localhost:16443/PAS/services/WSCentralService
• URL of the response HTML page for approvals:
https://localhost:51443/hpio/ooflows/ApprovalResponse.html
• URL of the Insight Orchestration Service: https://localhost:51443/hpio/controller/
Configuration files and URLs used by Insight Orchestration and Operations Orchestration 93