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5 Select a vCloud Automation Center host.

6 In the Model name text box, type the model name.

7 In the Entity set name text box, type the entity set name.

The HTTP headers property is set by using scripting or REST API.

8 Click Submit to run the workflow.

Using the vCloud Automation Center Plug-In Inventory

You can use the Inventory view to run workflows on vCloud Automation Center objects.

You can enable the Use contextual menu in inventory option to display the workflows that are available for

an inventory object. After the option is enabled, when you right-click an object in the Orchestrator inventory,

all available workflows for the object are displayed.

Access the vCloud Automation Center Plug-In API

Orchestrator provides an API Explorer to allow you to search the vCloud Automation Center plug-in API and

see the documentation for JavaScript objects that you can use in scripted elements.

Procedure

1 Log in to the Orchestrator client as an administrator.

2 Select Tools > API Explorer.

3 To expand the hierarchical list of vCloud Automation Center plug-in API objects, double-click the

vCAC module in the left pane.

What to do next

You can copy code from API elements and paste it into scripting boxes. For more information about API

scripting, see Developing with VMware vCenter Orchestrator.

Examples of Scripts for CRUD vCloud Automation Center Tasks

You can cut, paste, and edit the JavaScript examples to write scripts for CRUD vCloud Automation Center

tasks.

For more information about scripting, see Developing with VMware vCenter Orchestrator.

Example: Create a vCloud Automation Center model entity

This example script performs the following actions.

1 Defines the model name and the entity set name.

2 Defines the properties of the host prefix.

3 Saves the host prefix entity.

4 Defines the properties of the provisioning group.

5 Defines the provisioning group as a link.

6 Saves the provisioning group entity, by linking it with the host name prefix.

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