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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
- Modify the Number of Concurrent and Delayed Workflows
- Maintenance and Recovery
- Index
Using Plug-Ins 5
Plug-ins allow you to use Orchestrator to access and control external technologies and applications. Exposing
an external technology in an Orchestrator plug-in allows you to incorporate objects and functions in workflows
that access the objects and functions of that external technology.
The external technologies that you can access by using plug-ins can include virtualization management tools,
email systems, databases, directory services, and remote control interfaces.
Orchestrator provides a set of standard plug-ins to allow you to incorporate such technologies as the VMware
vCenter Server API and email capabilities into workflows. In addition, the Orchestrator open plug-in
architecture allows you to develop plug-ins to access other applications. Orchestrator implements open
standards, to simplify integration with external systems.
Plug-ins extend the Orchestrator scripting engine with new object types and methods, and plug-ins publish
notification events from the external system that trigger events in Orchestrator and in the plugged-in
technology. Plug-ins provide an inventory of JavaScript objects that you can access on the Orchestrator
Inventory tab. Each plug-in can provide one or more packages of workflows and actions that you can run on
the objects in the inventory to automate the typical use cases of the integrated product.
This chapter includes the following topics:
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“Default Orchestrator Plug-Ins,” on page 46
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“Using the SSH Plug-In,” on page 48
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“Using the XML Plug-In,” on page 51
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