5.5.1

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:
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Actions
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Workflows
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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:
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Workflows and actions that Orchestrator provides.
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Custom building blocks created by the customer
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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:
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Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) to sign and encrypt content imported
and exported between servers
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Digital Rights Management (DRM) to control how exported content
might be viewed, edited and redistributed
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Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) encrypted communications between the
desktop client and the server and HTTPS access to the Web front end.
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Advanced access rights management to provide control over access to
processes and the objects manipulated by these processes.
Orchestrator User Types and Related Responsibilities
Orchestrator provides different tools and interfaces based on the specific responsibilities of the two global
user roles: Administrators and End Users. Orchestrator developers also have administrative rights and are
responsible for creating workflows and additional applications.
Users with Full Rights
Administrators
This role has full access to all of the Orchestrator platform capabilities. Basic
administrative responsibilities include the following items:
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Installing and configuring Orchestrator
Installing and Configuring VMware vCenter Orchestrator
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