Activities

Connect To IBMSVC
Create Volume IBMSVC
Delete Volume IBMSVC
Get IBMSVC volumes
Disconnect from IBMSVC
Update Volume IBMSVC

Connect To IBMSVC

This activity connects to the specified IBMSVC account and outputs a IBMSVC client connection.

Activity Parameters

The Connect to IBMSVC activity parameters can be provided by manual inserted values or via IN arguments or variables:

Parameters:

Request URL (text box editor type) (type: string): enter the IBMSVC RequestUrl. E.g. "www.example.com"
Username (text box editor type) (type: string): enter the IBMSVC username. E.g. "FMRP\Demouser"
Password (password editor type) (type: string): the password for the provided username.
Password Binding (text box editor type) (type: string): bind to a variable containing the encrypted password for the connection. (This parameter is used only when the user wants to send an encripted password from outside the workflow, for example Flowster Portal).

The Read Only Output variable are the possible output values that the activity will provide:

Connection (type: object): outputs a IBMSVC Connection. This parameter should be used as input for all Connection parameters used for activities placed under IBMSVC category.

Create Volume IBMSVC

This activity creates a IBMSVC volume.

Activity Parameters

The Create Volume IBMSVC activity parameters can be provided by manual inserted values or via IN arguments or variables:

Parameters:

Hard Size (text box editor type) (type: Int32): enter the hard size of the volume.
Name (text box editor type) (type: string): enter the name of the volume to be created.
Snapshot Size (text box editor type) (type: Int32): enter size of the snapshot to be created.
Soft Size (text box editor type) (type: Int32): enter virtual size of the volume.

The Read Only Output variable are the possible output values that the activity will provide:

Status (type: boolean): outputs the status for the IBMSVC request.

Execution:

Delete Volume IBMSVC

This activity deletes a IBMSVC volume.

Activity Parameters

The Delete Volume IBMSVC activity parameters can be provided by manual inserted values or via IN arguments or variables:

Parameters:

Name (text box editor type) (type: string): enter the name of the volume to be deleted.

The Read Only Output variable are the possible output values that the activity will provide:

Status (type: boolean): outputs the status for the IBMSVC request.

Execution:

Get IBMSVC Volumes

This activity gets a list of all IBMSVC volumes.

Activity Parameters

The Get IBMSVC Volumes activity parameters can be provided by manual inserted values or via IN arguments or variables:

The Read Only Output variable are the possible output values that the activity will provide:

Status (type: boolean): outputs the status for the IBMSVC request.
Volumes List (type: List<String>): outputs a list of volumes for a specific IBMSVC account.

In order to extract the values from the output collection (in our case the output is a List(Of String) ), For Each activity is used to iterate through each element of the list OR Get Element From Collection activity to get a specific element by index:

For Each iteration: OR Get Element From Collection:

Execution:

Update Volume IBMSVC

This activity updates a IBMSVC volume.

Activity Parameters

The Update Volume IBMSVC activity parameters can be provided by manual inserted values or via IN arguments or variables:

Parameters:

Hard Size (text box editor type) (type: Int32): enter the hard size of the volume.
Name (text box editor type) (type: string): enter the name of the volume to be updated.
Snapshot Size (text box editor type) (type: Int32): enter size of the snapshot to be updated.
Soft Size (text box editor type) (type: Int32): enter virtual size of the volume.

The Read Only Output variable are the possible output values that the activity will provide:

Status (type: boolean): outputs the status for the IBMSVC request.

Execution:

Disconnect from IBMSVC

This activity disconnects from IBMSVC.

Activity Parameters

The Disconnect from IBMSVC activity parameters can be provided by manual inserted values or via IN arguments or variables:

Parameters:

Connection (text box editor type) (type: string): the Connection object - bind to the output of a Connect to IBMSVC activity.

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