Cisco Cisco Process Orchestrator 3.0 User Guide

Core activities are a set of items that span applications. For example, use the following activities to:

Calculate Date

Calculate a new date/time value based on a specified base date/time and 
adjustments.

Format Date

Convert the date and time into a string text format. For example:

yyyyMMdd hh:mm:ss tt

10/23/2009 10:23:00 PM

20091023 10:23:00 PM

Correlate Process Event

Check whether a process event occurred within a certain amount of time 
of another problem (see 

Create Automation 
Summary

Generate an automation summary including data selected activities in a 
process. To generate the data output, choose the activity, then specify the 
section in the automation summary in which to output the data.

An automation summary is a collection of data summarizing the objects 
included in the process and the data retrieved by the processing of the of 
the objects. 

The share path specified in the Core Functions Adapter properties will be 
used when viewing the automation summary reports. 

Find Targets

Among other use cases supported by this activity, you can find targets 
whose properties have certain values.

Insert Event

Define the configuration properties to be used to insert one event into 
Process Orchestrator Reporting Database. 

Publish Metric

Define the performance metric properties to be published into the Process 
Orchestrator Reporting Database and the Windows Management 
Instrumentation (WMI) provider.

The metrics are published under the root\TEO name space through the 
WMI class, TEO_PerformanceMetric. For a description of the class 
properties, see the online help. 

XPath Query

XPath queries navigate through XML documents and search through the 
document nodes. Use the XPath Query dialog box to enter the XPath 
properties to query from the source XML code. 

For additional information, see:

XSL Transform

Apply an XSLT transformation to a specific XML text. XSLT 
transformation can transform XML into plain text, HTML, or other XML.