Managing scheduled tasks.................................................................. 38
About task status........................................................................................................................ 40
Viewing task details.....................................................................................................................42
Responding to tasks................................................................................................................... 43
Suspending scheduled tasks...................................................................................................... 43
Resuming scheduled tasks......................................................................................................... 43
Canceling scheduled tasks......................................................................................................... 44
Stopping tasks............................................................................................................................ 44
Forcibly stopping tasks............................................................................................................... 44
Retrying the task from the failed step......................................................................................... 45
Retrying a task from the step after the failed step...................................................................... 45
Creating a similar task request................................................................................................... 45
Archiving tasks............................................................................................................................46
Deleting tasks from history..........................................................................................................46
Working with service templates.......................................................... 47
Importing a released service template........................................................................................ 49
Creating a service from the Service Templates tab.................................................................... 50
Exporting a service template.......................................................................................................51
Deleting a service template.........................................................................................................51
Updating a service template version...........................................................................................51
About provisioning service templates......................................................................................... 52
About data mobility service templates........................................................................................ 52
About ESX cluster service templates..........................................................................................53
About ServiceNow ticketing service templates........................................................................... 54
About High Availability................................................................................................................ 54
Administering Automation Director.................................................... 56
Viewing the Administration tab....................................................................................................56
Setup workflow............................................................................................................................56
Managing groups in Automation Director....................................................................................57
About user groups............................................................................................................57
About service groups....................................................................................................... 58
About infrastructure groups..............................................................................................59
About user roles............................................................................................................... 62
Viewing users...................................................................................................................63
Creating a user account................................................................................................... 63
Editing the profile for a user account................................................................................64
Viewing permissions.........................................................................................................64
Changing permissions for a user account........................................................................64
Changing the lock status of user accounts...................................................................... 65
User ID and password policies.........................................................................................65
Configuring external authentication for users...................................................................65
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