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Table Of Contents
- Managing vRealize Automation
- Contents
- Managing vRealize Automation
- Maintaining and Customizing vRealize Automation Components and Options
- Broadcast a Message on the Message Board Portlet
- Starting Up and Shutting Down vRealize Automation
- Updating vRealize Automation Certificates
- Extracting Certificates and Private Keys
- Replace Certificates in the vRealize Automation Appliance
- Replace the Infrastructure as a Service Certificate
- Replace the IaaS Manager Service Certificate
- Update Embedded vRealize Orchestrator to Trust vRealize Automation Certificates
- Update External vRealize Orchestrator to Trust vRealize Automation Certificates
- Updating the vRealize Automation Appliance Management Site Certificate
- Replace a Management Agent Certificate
- Change the Polling Method for Certificates
- Managing the vRealize Automation Postgres Appliance Database
- Backup and Recovery for vRealize Automation Installations
- The Customer Experience Improvement Program
- Adjusting System Settings
- Monitoring vRealize Automation
- Monitoring vRealize Automation Health
- Monitoring and Managing Resources
- Monitoring Containers
- Bulk Import, Update, or Migrate Virtual Machines
7 Configure one of the following options.
Option Description
URL Enter the page URL.
Custom Message Enter the plain text message.
8 Click Publish.
The message is broadcast to any tenant users who added the message board portlet to their Home tab.
To change or remove the message, you must be logged in as the tenant administrator. To change the
message, repeat the same steps. To remove the message, remove the URL or text and publish the blank
message.
Create a Message Board Portlet URL Whitelist
As the security administrator, you configure an allowed list of URLs that can be used in the message
board portlet so that you can ensure added security.
Prerequisites
Log in to vRealize Automation as a security administrator.
Procedure
1 Select Administration > Message Board Whitelist.
2 Click New.
3 Add a URL and click OK.
The URL entries can include following content:
n
IP address or FQDN of a site. For example, https://docs.vmware.com.
n
Includes https.
n
Can include allowed ports. If a port is not specified, the allowed ports are 80 and 443.
4 Repeat for each additional entry.
A tenant administrator cannot add a URL to the message board unless it is included in this list.
What to do next
Verify that you can add a URL included in your whitelist to the message board. See Broadcast a Message
on the Message Board Portlet.
Starting Up and Shutting Down vRealize Automation
A system administrator performs a controlled shutdown or startup of vRealize Automation to preserve
system and data integrity.
Managing vRealize Automation
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