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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
The Actions view presents the following tabs.
General
Displays general information about the action, including its name, its version
number, the operations the user is allowed to perform, and a description.
Scripting
Displays the action’s return type, input parameters, and the JavaScript code
that defines the action's function.
Events
Displays all of the events associated with this action.
Permissions
Displays which users and user groups have permission to access the action.
Resources View
The Resources view in the Orchestrator client allows you to import external objects such as images, sysprep
files, custom scripts, and HTML and XML templates and use them as resource elements in workflows and Web
views.
The Resources view consists of a set of tabs that show information about a particular resource element.
General
Displays general information about the resource element, including its name,
MIME type, description, version number, and the user permissions.
Viewer
Displays the contents of the resource element.
Events
Displays all of the events that are associated with this resource element.
Permissions
Displays which users and user groups have permission to access the resource
element.
Inventory View
The Inventory view in the Orchestrator client interface displays the objects of the plugged-in applications that
are enabled in Orchestrator. You can use the Inventory view to run workflows on an inventory object.
If the Use contextual menu in inventory option is enabled, all of the workflows that you can run on the selected
inventory object appear in a contextual menu.
Web Views View
The Web Views view in the Orchestrator client allows you to create, publish, and export Web views to a
working folder or as templates. You can use Web views to access Orchestrator functions from a Web browser.
The Web Views view consists of a set of tabs that show information about a particular Web view.
General
Displays general information about the Web view, including its name,
description, version number, the URL on which the Web view is published,
and the user permissions.
Elements
Displays the HTML files and Web view components associated with the
selected Web view.
Attributes
Displays the attributes that direct the Web view to the objects in the
Orchestrator server on which it performs tasks.
Events
Displays all of the events that are associated with the Web view.
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