Lifecycle Manager

When managing any sort of entity with Itential Platform, workflows are used to define the logic of the actions executed against that entity. For example, if your environment makes heavy use of a specific make and model of switch, you may have several workflows designed to manage that type of switch. These workflows may take actions including:

• Updating the VLAN of switch ports.
• Enabling or disabling switch ports.
• Changing the management IP address of the switch.

This method of management can be effective; however, after it finishes execution, a workflow does not by itself maintain any information about the state of the entity it was working with. If a workflow successfully changes the hostname of a device, and that hostname is later altered, the new hostname will not be reflected when viewing the workflow. For this reason, Itential's Lifecycle Manager exists to manage the operational status of an entity after workflow execution.

The documentation sections that follow explain Lifecycle Manager and how it manages the operational status of an entity after workflow execution:

• Lifecycle Manager Overview
• Lifecycle Manager Resources
• LCM Instance Data History