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WFA - Generate Random Password ?

sheelnidhig — Thu, 05 Jun 2025 04:10:08 GMT

Hello All,

I am trying to create a workflow which should be able to create a user on a Netapp Cluster mode system.

For that an idea was to be able to generate the random password and send it over an email.

But i am not able to pass the password string on to next command.

Attached a test workflow which sould create a password and prints from next command but its not working.

Please help,

,Sheel

Re: WFA - Generate Random Password ?

sinhaa — Wed, 10 Jun 2015 11:04:19 GMT

Sheel,

Your workflow has fundamental errors. I'm not going to explain them all, there are many.

But will resolve your query. To pass dynamically generated password to the next command use Powershell cmdlet : Add-WfaWorkflowParameter and Get-WfaWorkflowParameter in your next command. See how to to use them go-to WFA->Help->Support Links -> WFA Powershell cmdlets help

See the below command code for your help:

##Random Password

param
(
[parameter(Mandatory=$true, HelpMessage="Parameter Name")]
[string]$ParameterName

)

Add-Type -AssemblyName System.web
$Password = [Web.Security.Membership]::GeneratePassword(12,3)

Get-WFALogger -Info -message $("Generated " +$ParameterName+":"+$Password )
Add-WfaWorkflowParameter -Name $ParameterName -Value $Password

#next command Print The password

param
(
[parameter(Mandatory=$true, HelpMessage="Parameter Name")]
[string]$ParameterName

)

$Password = Get-WfaWorkflowParameter -Name $ParameterName
Get-WFALogger -Info -message $("Value of "+$ParameterName+" : " + $Password )

sinhaa

Re: WFA - Generate Random Password ?

sheelnidhig — Wed, 10 Jun 2015 18:49:29 GMT

Thanks Sinhaa, atleast this works for me:-)

Would it be possible to point out the errors that you saw in the workflow.

,Sheel