Automate workflows

There are four different ways in which workflows can be invoked in Automate:

• A custom button

• An event

• An alert

• A CloudForms Management Engine application

A workflow can be invoked using more than one (or all) of the preceding options. To understand this, let's look at an example where we need to create additional cloud instances in the case of a load. This creation of instances can be initiated by the following:

• An administrator who is monitoring the existing instances and sees that there is a spike

• An alert that shows that the CPU usage on the existing instance is more than 80 percent

• An existing instance that has crashed or is unresponsive

All invocations of an Automate model must enter through the /System/Process namespace.