Standalone Actions

Note: Standalone actions are supported only in the Cleo Harmony application.

Standalone actions are actions that are not tied to a specific host or user. They exist beside, and not within, hosts or users.

You can use standalone actions for a variety of purposes, such as:

• Filtering incoming payload (for example, the Antivirus Scan action)
• Listening for and acting on log events
• Processing new file arrival or user session end events
• Scheduling periodic maintenance tasks

A standalone action can access configured hosts and users (and their related incoming payload and events) when they are in-scope, which means that relative to the standalone action, the host or user is located in the same host tree resource folder or below, or in the root host tree folder (which is always accessible). A standalone action contains only JavaScript commands.

Similar to other actions, you can run standalone actions interactively, through the Java API, and through command line operations (for example, Harmonyc -r "MyStandaloneAction"). You can also schedule standalone actions to run periodically, or trigger them to run when a new file arrives or a session ends.

Standalone Action Configuration

A standalone action captures a repeatable logical function you can use with in-scope hosts and users.

1. Click the Templates tab in the tree pane.
2. If necessary, expand the Hosts tree in the Templates tab.

3. Expand the Standalone Actions folder, right-click the action you want to use, and select Clone and Activate. 

   The pre-configured Standalone Action is copied and activated, the Active tab is selected in the tree pane, and the new active Standalone Action is selected in the tree. If necessary, the new standalone action is appended with a number to make it unique. 

   Note: The original pre-configured standalone action remains in the templates tree.
4. Enter configuration information.
   1. Click the standalone action to display its configuration tabs.
   2. Edit the action. See Standalone Action: Action Tab.
5. Click Apply to save your work.

Important: If you leave any of these panels without clicking Apply, your work will not be saved. You can configure the native UI to prompt to you click Apply when changes are made. See Other system options. However, in the web UI, this is not valid. In the web UI, if you make updates to a host and then click a part of the product not related to a host, for example any of the buttons in the banner, the product will not prompt you to click Apply and your updates will not be saved.

Standalone Action: Action Tab

Use the Action tab to compose an action. See Composing an action.

Note: Since standalone actions are not tied to a specific host or user, they do not support the Commands language and rather only support the JavaScript language.

Select the Automatically run at startup check box to execute the action automatically each time the Cleo Harmony application is first launched. This is useful depending on the purpose of the standalone action, such as an incoming filter or log listener that needs to register itself at startup.

Standalone Action: Messages Tab

The Messages tab scrolls runtime messages for the standalone action. The contents of the Messages tab is retained until the next time the action is run, even if the system is restarted.