Preface

Revision History

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1.0 Initial release of document for Release 2020.3.0 September 2020

About this Guide

Welcome to the complete guide to getting started with Visual Workflow. Learn how to use Visual Workflow as a Network Service Orchestration and Automation platform with AppViewX modules, including working with inventory, connecting tasks and apps you know and designing workflows to automate repetitive tasks and solutions.

Audience

This guide aims to introduce basic visual workflow concepts and guides you through your automation journey. This guide is useful for experienced users with reasonable programming experience (Python), trying to enhance their skills with automating network tasks. You can use AppViewX pre-built workflow tasks, commands, API, SDK to automate across the L2-L7 layer, such as automate load balancers, DNS, WAF, PKI, switches, routers, and other network elements. This guide is intended for the following audience:
  • DevOps
  • Network Engineers
  • Architect
  • NetDevOps
  • SceOps
  • PKI

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