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How to Implement Processes

A process is a series of steps that can be executed in sequence to perform complex processing.

You define processes to automate complex operations tasks.

Processes can be executed as follows:

• From a resource definition—you can specify a process in a resource definition. The process is invoked when required for that resource.
• From an event detector—you can specify a process in an event rule. The process is invoked when an event triggers the rule.
• As a single task—you can run a process as a single, independent task. Use this feature to debug processes or as a quick way of executing a process manually.
• Interactively—you can run a process in the INTERACTIVE mode. Use this feature to check the results of processing single steps, or of processing a sequence of steps one at a time. You can display individual step logs and, if required, change the step parameters.

Process Types

A process can be global (available to all components) or local (available to a specific system image only). A global process is available to all components; however, a local process is available only if it belongs to the local active image.