Who has done something like this....?

[sbeaver]

During my provisioning I install an 3rd party agent for patching and updates.  Once I have finished my provisioning I need to wait for an email or something from that 3rd party system saying any patching or updates are done before my workflow should continue and notify the end user that the server is ready.  Anybody doing anything like that and if so what did you do?

Thanks

Steve

[stvkpln · Accepted solution]

Does the third party system have an API you can plug into? If so, you could (in theory) query the provisioned system's object in the system to ensure it's actually ready.. How you'd do that would depend on the system itself and what means it offers. Likely you'd be using the REST or SOAP plugins and adding the management system as an endpoint...

[sbeaver]

hmmm  did that think about it going that way.  I do have API access into the system let me see if they can create something I can query to see if things are done

[sbeaver]

Actually you got me thinking and I create a marker txt file that the 3rd party system looks for to know a server is new and should get things applied right away and that system deletes the file when done.  So I am just going to look for that file to be deleted.  Sometimes its best to do things the easy way