Executing On-Demand Runbooks

On-demand runbooks can be executed from three places within the UI:

• On-Demand Runbooks page

• Runbook Analyses page

• Global search results for an on-demand runbook

Executing an on-demand runbook uses the Run Runbook dialog:

1. Open the On-Demand runbooks page to see those runbooks listed.

2. For the on-demand runbook you want to execute, click Run to display the Run Runbook dialog. This dialog lists the parameters you need to supply in order for the runbook to execute. These correspond to the variables that were added to the runbook's Input node when the runbook was defined. (For comparison, incident runbooks don't use this dialog and its inputs because all the relevant context is supplied to incident runbooks by their triggers.) The parameters include:

   • Primary Entity — The type of network object for which the on-demand runbook executes.

   • Additional Parameters — Specify values to populate the variables included in the runbook's Input node.

3. Specify the Reference Time at which the runbook will examine data for generating output (the default is Now) and click Run. The runbook's output will be listed on the Runbook Analyses page.