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Activities: The activities added in the Activity Manager are shown in this pane and can be
added to a workflow template. The user can also Add, Edit and Remove Activities. For more
information, see
Section 5.7.5, “Managing Activities,” on page 140 .
WARNING: Use caution when editing or deleting an Activity that is already in use.
The following icons are used in the Template Builder to represent the Steps:
Table 5-4
Template Builder Icons
Icon Description
Start Step: All workflow templates have a Start Step.
Decision Step: This step provides different execution paths depending on the value
of a variable defined in a previous Step.
Mail Step: This step sends a pre-written email.
Manual Step: This step indicates that manual work must be performed, often outside
the Sentinel system (For example, telephoning the owner of the affected system or
analyzing the results of a scan).
Activity Step: This step is a pre-defined set of Activities.
Command Step: This step executes a command or script on the iTRAC workflow
server, usually installed in the same place as the Data Access Service (DAS). The
output of the command can be stored in a string variable and used as input to a
Decision Step.
End Step: This step signifies the completion of a workflow process.