About this document

The Event Driven Automation (EDA) User Guide describes the system's core graphical user interface (GUI) and its use to configure and manage resources. It provides some information about EDA's purpose, a brief summary of its architectural components and central concepts, and includes administration concepts and procedures for maintaining EDA and the network elements it can manage.

Many of the capabilities of EDA are provided by individual applications that can be installed, updated, or uninstalled independently of the core EDA software. For details about those capabilities, see the documentation for individual applications.

This document is intended for network technicians, administrators, operators, service providers, and others who use EDA.

Note: This manual covers the current release and may also contain some content to be released in later maintenance loads. See the EDA Release Notes for information about features supported in each load.

Precautionary and information messages

The following are information symbols used in the documentation.

DANGER: Danger warns that the described activity or situation may result in serious personal injury or death. An electric shock hazard could exist. Before you begin work on this equipment, be aware of hazards involving electrical circuitry, be familiar with networking environments, and implement accident prevention procedures.

WARNING: Warning indicates that the described activity or situation may, or will, cause equipment damage, serious performance problems, or loss of data.

Caution: Caution indicates that the described activity or situation may reduce your component or system performance.

Note: Note provides additional operational information.

Tip: Tip provides suggestions for use or best practices.

What's new

This section lists the changes that were made in this release.

Table 1. What's new in 25.8.1
Feature	Location
GUI basics
You can now pin some columns in data grids so they remain visible even as the rest of the data scrolls left or right.	Working with data grids
You can now open the list of hotkeys by pressing "Shift-?" key on your keyboard.	Working with data grids
Data grids now omit the Namespace column if the page is set to display data from only a single namespace.	Working with data grids
The ability to edit multiple objects simultaneously ("bulk edits") has been enhanced.	Bulk edits
Custom navigation panels
You can now create and share custom menus that can be displayed in addition to, or instead of, the standard EDA main menu.	Custom navigation panels
Alarms
Several improvements have been made to the way alarms are displayed and the ways in which you can interact with them and their affected resources.	Alarms
Workflows
The Workflows button has been added to the EDA UI menu bar that allows you to interact with workflows from anywhere in the EDA UI.	Workflows
You can now run and manage workflows using the EDA UI.	Workflows Workflow Executions page Workflow Definition List page Triggering a workflow from the resource action menu
Transactions
Improvements have been made to the Transactions drop-down form, and the way transaction results are displayed.	Transactions
A topological view is available for transactions to display the resources affected by transactions and their relationships.	Transactions page
Node management
Added the node management chapter.	Node management
Topology
Improvements have been made to the display of physical topologies, and the overlays that can be applied to show the status of participating objects.	Topology
Within the topology display, menus are now available to interact with objects within the topology (using a right-click, or through the Information panel).	The Topologies page
EDA applications
For EDA applications with install-time settings, during app installation, the EDA Store install wizard opens forms where you can input app settings.	Apps Installing an application
Security
You can now perform multi-row actions on users, user groups, and federations.	Managing user accounts Deleting user groups Deleting a federation
You can now limit the actions a user execute on a workflow based on resource rules.	Rules
You can now test the connection and authentication to the LDAP server.	Configuring a federation
After system installation, you can now change the default passwords set for internal services.	Changing internal passwords
Administration
You can now exclude some directories during a restore operation.	Backup and restore
Image management: updated procedures	Reimaging individual nodes Reimaging nodes using labels Reimaging node tranches
Geo-redundancy: Added improvements to the procedures
Added procedures that describe how to modify a cluster name and migrate to a new Git server.	Modifying the cluster name Migrating to the new Git server in the active cluster in standalone mode
Updated instances of EngineConfig CR examples.	Adding remotes Removing remotes