The following information is included in this section:
The provisioning operations you perform in PlateSpin Orchestrate are recorded as “actions.” For example, in the PlateSpin Orchestrate Development Client main menu:
A VM Host Discovery action is initiated if you select
> and then you select a provisioning adapter in the Discover VM Hosts and Repositories dialog box.A VM Discovery action is initiated if you select
> and then you select a provisioning adapter in the Discover VM Images dialog box. An action is specified for each Repository you specify.A Migrate action is initiated when you perform the migration of a Virtual Machine (VM).
Depending on the Grid object you select, an Action History tab is displayed in several views of the Orchestrate Development Client.
You can see the Action History tab in the VM Hosts monitor view if you select a migrating VM:
Figure 2-1 VM Hosts Actions
Two action-specific menu selections are available if you right-click an action in the action history table:
opens the provision log for the VM
cancels the selected active action
The action history table is updated at the same time the polling view is updated.
NOTE:The format of action history table is similar in the Provisioner monitor view and in the Users monitor view.
If the
check box is selected in this view, the action status is not polled. Click the refresh icon to fetch and display fresh data.NOTE:The Orchestrate Server must be connected to an audit database for the
check box to be available. This behavior is the same in the Job monitor view.Action history is displayed in other Grid object admin views of the Development Client:
User object
Resource object
Repository object
The following illustration shows an example of action history in the Repository admin view:
Figure 2-2 Repository Action History
The table below defines some of the column names and the values that can populate those columns in the action history table:
Table 2-1 Action History Table Columns