2.2.1 What are Provisioning Actions?

The provisioning operations you perform in Cloud Manager Orchestration are recorded as “actions.” For example, in the Orchestration Console main menu:

For a comprehensive list of the provisioning operations supported by each Cloud Manager Orchestration provisioning adapter, see Section 4.0, Orchestration Provisioning Adapter Information.

2.2.2 How Actions Are Displayed in the Orchestration Console

Depending on the Grid object you select, an Action History tab is displayed in several views of the Orchestration Console.

Action History in Monitor Views of the Orchestration Console

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:

• Show Log opens the provision log for the VM

• Cancel Action 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 Include Audit Database 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 Orchestration Server must be connected to an audit database for the Include Audit Database check box to be available. This behavior is the same in the Job monitor view.

Action History in Admin Views of the Orchestration Console

Action history is displayed in other Grid object admin views of the Orchestration Console:

• 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

Column Name	Purpose
Action ID	A unique integer value used to identify the action.
Parent Action ID	If a value is displayed, the action is a child of this parent, identified with a unique integer value.
Action Name	Specific to the action being invoked.
Target ID	The identifying string of the object where the action is to occur.
Status	Displays the status of this action (specific to the action being invoked). Possible values in this column include: Started In Progress Success Failed Canceled

2.2.3 Prioritized Provisioning Actions

Because the Orchestration Server must efficiently manage many resources and jobs while providing acceptable response times, short-running, user-facing jobs, such as stopping a running VM instance are prioritized above long-running background tasks such as building a VM image.

The Orchestration Server increases the priority for the Start, Stop, Pause, Suspend, > CheckStatus and Resume provisioning actions so that they are run before the Clone, Build, or Save Config provisioning actions. These prioritized provisioning actions run as “privileged provisioning actions,” which means that they can run in a resource’s extra system joblet slots. This is done so that customer-initiated provisioning actions can be run immediately, even when resource joblet slots are filled by lower priority actions, congesting the grid.

For more information about adding joblet slots, see Joblet Slots in the The Resource Objectsection of the NetIQ Cloud Manager 2.1.5 Orchestration Console Reference.