4.0
Table Of Contents
- vCenter Orchestrator Administration Guide
- Contents
- Updated Information
- About This Book
- Introduction to VMware vCenter Orchestrator
- The Orchestrator Client
- Managing Workflows
- Creating Resource Elements
- Using Plug-Ins
- Managing Actions
- Using Packages
- Setting System Properties
- Disable Access to the Orchestrator Client By Nonadministrators
- Disable Access to Workflows from Web Service Clients
- Setting Server File System Access from Workflows and JavaScript
- Set JavaScript Access to Operating System Commands
- Set JavaScript Access to Java Classes
- Set Custom Timeout Property
- Modify the Number of Objects a Plug-In Search Obtains
- Maintenance and Recovery
- Index
Scripting engine
The Mozilla Rhino JavaScript engine provides a way to create new building
blocks for Orchestrator Platform. The scripting engine is enhanced with basic
version control, variable type checking, name space management and
exception handling. It can be used in the following building blocks:
n
Actions
n
Workflows
n
Policies
Workflow engine
The workflow engine allows you to capture business processes. It uses the
following objects to create a step-by-step process automation in workflows:
n
Workflows and actions that Orchestrator provides.
n
Custom building blocks created by the customer
n
Objects that plug-ins add to Orchestrator
Users, other workflows, a schedule, or a policy can start workflows.
Policy engine
The policy engine allows monitoring and event generation to react to changing
conditions in the Orchestrator server or plugged-in technology. Policies can
aggregate events from the platform or any of the plug-ins, which allows you
to handle changing conditions on any of the integrated technologies.
Web 2.0 front end
The Web 2.0 front end allows you to integrate Orchestrator functions into Web-
based interfaces, using Web views. For example, you can create Web views that
add buttons to start workflows from a page in your company's Intranet. It
provides a library of user customizable components to access vCO orchestrated
objects and uses Ajax technology to dynamically update content without
reloading complete pages.
Security
Orchestrator provides the following advanced security functions:
n
Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) to sign and encrypt content imported and
exported between servers
n
Digital Rights Management (DRM) to control how exported content might
be viewed, edited and redistributed
n
Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) encrypted communications between the
desktop client and the server and HTTPS access to the Web front end.
n
Advanced access rights management to provide control over access to
processes and the objects manipulated by these processes.
Orchestrator User Roles and Related Tasks
vCenter Orchestrator provides different tools and interfaces based on the specific responsibilities of the two
global user roles: Administrators and End Users.
Administrators
This role has full access to all of the Orchestrator platform capabilities. Basic
administrative tasks include the following items:
n
Installing and configuring Orchestrator
n
Managing access rights for Orchestrator and applications
n
Importing and exporting packages
n
Enabling and disabling Web views
vCenter Orchestrator Administration Guide
12 VMware, Inc.