Aria Automation Orchestrator - different result running code in action and workflow

Products

• VCF Operations/Automation (formerly VMware Aria Suite)

Issue/Introduction

Scenario:

An Orchestrator action was written to achieve a task, this action was then used in a workflow, while testing it was found necessary that the Action has to be updated.

After updating the action and testing the workflow, however the action does still use the previous version.

Environment

Aria Automation Orchestrator 8.18.1

Cause

Orchestrator uses an internal cache logic which is refreshed every 2 minutes, if the change & execution happened within that time then the execution may use the cached version instead of the latest version.

Resolution

The issue can be avoided by waiting at least 2 minutes after saving the latest change.