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Select Edit and then Execute to bring up the input parameters panel, as shown

in Figure 8-13.

Figure 8-13 MapVolumeToFA input parameters

The LUN field is a user number that is made up according to our naming

standards:

򐂰 SANPortID is the HBA ObjectID of the server that is the target for the storage.

򐂰 StoragesubsystemID is the number for our FastT700.

򐂰 StorageVolumeID is the ObjectID of the storage request that completed in the

CreateStorageVolume step. In our case that was ‘11043’.

See the detail report in Figure 8-11 on page 203.

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Next, click the Execute button just below the input fields to run this request. The

panel in Figure 8-14 is shown as the request is in progress.

Figure 8-14 MapVolumeToFA executing

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Once the command completes successfully, the next panel shown in Figure 8-15

has the check mark in the status field to indicate success.

Figure 8-15 MapVolumeToFA completed successfully

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In order to see the report from this panel, click the icon to the right of the Status

field for the Parameter Details report. See Figure 8-16.

Figure 8-16 MapVolumeToFA parameter Detail report

This concludes the step-by-step execution of the individual workflow

components.

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8.2.4 Complete workflow from the top

In this section we show you how we can string together workflows and pass

variables between sections to complete the process as a “one-stop provisioning

task”. We will concentrate on two of the steps from the prior example:

򐂰 CreateStorageVolume

򐂰 MapVolumeToFA

The following panel, Figure 8-17, shows the workflows available in the product.

Figure 8-17 Complete workflow - add workflow