Cisco Systems 3.5 Manual De Usuario

  

Managing 

Workflows 

 

Cisco Systems, Inc. 

Page 133 

This chapter briefly describes the Workflow Engine branch in the Sheer DNA 
Manage application. 

About the Sheer Workflow Editor, below, provides an overview of the 
Sheer Workflow Editor. 

Workflow Engine Branch, page 134, briefly describes the Workflow Engine 
sub-branches, namely, Templates and Workflows. 

For more information about the Workflow Engine branch menus and toolbar, 
refer to page 52. 

The Sheer Workflow Editor enables the creation and execution of logical 
flows of atomic tasks (activation commands), including, complex rollback 
scenarios. This logic enables the user to define relationships between tasks, 
including sequences, branches, failure procedures, scheduling, and access to 
Sheer Commands as well as Sheer’s Information Model. The Workflow 
Editor can interface with an external system such as an order management 
system in order to create a full solution for service provisioning, which is 
user-customizable and user-extendable. 

The Sheer Workflow Editor is a GUI-oriented process management tool that 
acts as a powerful visual design and execution tracing tool for defining and 
deploying activation workflows (a workflow consists of several tasks 
grouped together and arranged in a hierarchy). Workflow management is 
supported in runtime and includes a runtime GUI control console. The easy-
to-use GUI is flexible enough to enable complex flows to be created with a 
minimum of effort. For information about launching and working with the 
Sheer Workflow Editor, refer to the Cisco Active Network Abstraction 
Workflow User’s Guide. 

All workflows are stored on the Sheer DNA Gateway. The Workflow Editor 
engine resides on the Sheer DNA Gateway,  

. 

Note: In order to use workflows AVM 66 must be up and the relevant license 
must be installed.