Enabling Optional Features
  • 19 Dec 2024
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Enabling Optional Features

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Article summary

Optional features can be enabled (or disabled) for Operations Manager ("Ops Manager") by setting the appropriate properties via its service configuration. This page:

  • Demonstrates how to use Admin Essentials to set those properties.
  • Provides a reference list of configurable properties.

Configuration Properties

To enable or disable optional features in Ops Manager:

  1. Launch Admin Essentials from the Itential Automation Platform (IAP) dashboard.
  2. Select Operations Manager from the Applications list displayed on the side navigation menu. The Configuration tab displays, showing a checklist of configurable properties (Figure 1).
  3. Enable or disable a property (feature) by clicking its checkbox.
    1. If a blank screen displays, toggle the “Advanced View” switch on the right to open the Service Config editor to add the property.
  4. Save your changes by clicking the Save ( ) button located above the Properties list.

Figure 1: Operations Manager Configuration (Tab)
Operations Manager Configuration Tab


Figure 2: Operations Manager Service Config Editor (Advanced View Toggle)
Operations Manager Service Configuration Editor

Configurable Property Features

The following property features can be enabled or disabled for Operations Manager.

Property Description
maximizeJobTasksOnLoad Maximizes the Job Details panel by default when opening job visualizations (the Job Details view).
actionableTasksInJobsTable Adds an Actionable Tasks column to the Jobs table which lists all of the actionable tasks present in each displayed job. Users may also claim actionable tasks from this column. For performance reasons, enabling this feature limits the maximum number of rows displayed on the Jobs table to 50.
finishManualTaskEnableAnyType Ops Manager service property that enables the finishManualTask API to finish non-manual tasks.

Service Config Editor

Using the toogle switch in the upper-right, properties can also be enabled or disabled via the Advanced editing view, which displays the current service configuration in JSON format. For example, to enable the maximizeJobTasksOnLoad property, you can define it under the properties key as follows:

"properties" : {
    "maximizeJobTasksOnLoad": true
}

The maximizeJobTasksOnLoad property is a feature flag to help users who are accustomed to seeing all running jobs and automations, including the workflow canvas, as it is being worked. When this feature is enabled, it displays the workflow within the Job Details view. Users can also enlarge the workflow canvas for better visualization.

Figure 3: Job Details View
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