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What is a workflow? Are workflows just scripts?

April 26, 2017scripts Workflow workflows

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What is a workflow? Are workflows just scripts?

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Tivoli Provisioning Manager workflows are not just scripts; they offer much more. Logical Device Operations are workflow interfaces that are at run time resolved and invoked by Tivoli Provisioning Manager Deployment Engine. The workflow developer can choose to call (from within the workflow they are developing) other workflows or LDOs (interfaces). Some of the most commonly used interfaces are: Device.ExecuteCommand and Device.CopyFile. They allow the developer to create Tivoli Provisioning Manager workflows that are agnostic of how the Tivoli Provisioning Manager software communicates with the target, for example, whether it is ssh/scp, Tivoli Common Agent, or RXA. The Tivoli Provisioning Manager workflows allow developers to directly imbed other scripts, such as bash and ksh, and pass the data from the workflow directly to the script and from the script back to the workflow. The target where the script is executed can be resolved at run time by using DCMQuery. DCMQuery, DCMInsert, an