SmartOps Core Platform 7.6

Overview

SmartOps 7.6 introduces new features and enhancements across SmartOps Orchestration, Packaged Product Enablers and Integrations.

In SmartOps Orchestration, this release introduces new Automation Story APIs to get all Automation Stories based on different combinations and to get Workflow details corresponding to any Automation Story.

SmartOps 7.6 introduces a notification framework which can be used in packaged products to provide in-app notifications. The framework will be enhanced to support more notification channels in future releases. This release also has enhancements to “User Data Store” - the platform component that stores user information as well as application specific information inside the SmartOps platform databases. User Data Store will now be capable of performing more data operations. The release also has enhancements to Design Studio, PWF master configuration and Rule Engine.

In SmartOps Integrations, RHub is enhanced with the capability to synchronize adapter configurations thereby enabling adapters to update the configuration changes without restarting. PaaS/ Multitenancy feature is enabled with the provision to reserve capacity for batch/asynchronous processes at organization or custom levels.

SmartOps 7.6 continues with new APIs and enhancements to "Automation Story".

• API to fetch Workflow details corresponding to "Automation Story", based on different conditions such as Session Id and Automation Story.
• API to fetch all Automation Stories based on different combinations - Provision to get the Automation Stories in an organization based on given conditions such as Tags, PWF type, Project ID etc.
• Enhancement for "Automation Story":
  • State Management in Workflows - To enable saving certain fields as part of session so that it will be available throughout the life cycle of an "Automation Story", new Micro action is made available which users can use to add fields and values, so that they get saved to the "Automation Story" session. This can be achieved using:
    • Micro action for Session Update
    • Micro action to Clear Entities from Session
  • Set ending Micro actions automatically - While creating workflows in Design Studio, an automation designer can mark Micro actions without any output connectors as ‘ending Micro actions’. With this release, the system will now automatically do this during Workflow save/update, if the automation designer has not marked the ending Micro actions.

In 7.6 release, Notification Framework is built to support notification channels.

• New framework can be used by applications running on the platform to send notifications to other applications and users. Notifications will include system alerts, batch processing updates, and application-specific information.
• The framework allows to send notifications to users via different channels. The framework also provide provision to pull alerts specific to a user.
• Option for users to subscribe/unsubscribe to notifications (user preferences) is enabled. Subscription to notification will be supported at user/group levels.

Notification Framework In-App Microservice In-App Microservice is a component that exposes API for UI applications to get notifications. The In-App microservice shall provide following interfaces:

• Interface to push notification into the MongoDB storage - This shall be integrated with RHub Flow. So, the queue listener adapter can invoke this API.
• Interfaces to get notifications - This interface shall be invoked by UI applications.
• Interface to delete/expire/make status as read notifications.

User data store is a platform component which stores user information as well as application specific information inside the SmartOps platform databases.

With 7.6 release, user data store will be capable of performing certain basic operations such as:

• Update/Delete user details.
• Register application.
• Add/Edit/Delete application specific details
• Get user details
• Get app registration details.
• Get Application specific details

• Personalization of Micro Actions in Design Studio - Provision to Mark/Unmark a Micro Action as favorite.
• View micro actions similar to the selected micro action, in the detail view screen. 

SmartOps 7.6 release provides following PWF enhancements:

• Introduce grouping based on configuration group names master specific master configuration listing screens
• Manage the order of groups and fields within groups, in master configuration screens
• Provision to de-associate a role from an user in a project (Admin)
• In master project configuration screens, checking for cyclic dependency and no check for display order or group step number of dependencies. These procedures are automated as part of this enhancements

• Rule Engine Improvements
  • In this release, changes are introduced to make automatically read the package and class name from the DRL or Excel rule file and use it for rule creation. Users do not have to provide this information manually.
  • There will be a timeout for rule execution
  • Rule file can be downloaded for editing.
• Rule Engine – RHub Integration
  • User can now integrate Rule Engine with RHub by providing RHub instance and RHub URL in the Rule detail screen.

SmartOps 7.6 introduces the provision to reserve capacity for batch/asynchronous processes at organization or custom levels. This can be used by applications to offer guaranteed performance in our multi-tenant PaaS through dedicated instances for critical components. This feature will be used in SmartOps Orchestration and SmartVision in the coming releases.

Synchronize Adapter Configuration – Previously, for reflecting the configuration changes, adapters were required to be restarted. With this new feature, the system will listen to the Zookeeper instances and update the configuration changes for the adapters, i.e., synchronize the configurations from Zookeeper to respective adapters.

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