vOrchestrator System Alerting

[zdickinson]

Good morning, I'm wondering if there is any way to setup alerting for problem on the vOrchestrator appliance.  In the past, v5, we would have scheduled orchestrations just stop running.  They would fail to start and so no alerting from the workflow was sent out.  Is there any system alerting that can be setup to notify if workflows are not running or are missed?  Thank you, Zach.

[tschoergez · Accepted solution]

Hi,

there is no included way to send out alerts from vRO platform level.

You could let an external monitoring tool run a workflow via the REST API (see some example scripts here: https://github.com/burkeazbill/vroClientScripts ) (that proves vRO is running and workflows do run, but does not check scheduled workflows), or create some generic "heartbeat style" workflow that updates some timestamp in a database or creates a file or whatever, then monitor this file. This would also confirm that the scheduled workflows are running.

Regards,

Joerg

[zdickinson]

Great idea to modify a file and then have our other alerting software monitor that file for change.  Thank you, Zach.