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Table Of Contents
- Advanced Service Design
- Contents
- Advanced Service Design
- Updated Information for Advanced Service Design
- Using the Goal Navigator
- Introduction to VMware vRealize Orchestrator
- Configuring vRealize Orchestrator and Plug-Ins
- Authoring Services with Advanced Service Designer
- Advanced Service Designer Basics
- Creating an Advanced Service Overview
- Create a Custom Resource
- Create a Service Blueprint
- Publish a Service Blueprint as a Catalog Item
- Create a Resource Action
- Publish a Resource Action
- Assign an Icon to a Resource Action
- Create a Service
- Associate a Catalog Item with a Service
- Create an Approval Policy for Advanced Service Blueprints and Actions
- Entitle a Service, Catalog Items, and Actions to a User or a Group of Users
- Extending Operations on Resources Provisioned by Other Sources
- Importing and Exporting Advanced Service Designer Components
- Form Designer
- Advanced Service Designer Examples and Scenarios
- Create a Service for Creating and Modifying a User
- Create a Test User as a Custom Resource
- Create a Service Blueprint for Creating a User
- Publish the Create a User Blueprint as a Catalog Item
- Create a Resource Action to Change a User Password
- Publish the Change a Password Resource Action
- Create a Service for Creating a Test User
- Associate the Catalog Item with the Create a Test User Service
- Entitle the Service and the Resource Action to a Consumer
- Create and Publish an Action to Migrate a Virtual Machine
- Create an Action to Migrate a Virtual Machine With vMotion
- Create and Publish an Action to Take a Snapshot
- Create and Publish an Action to Start an Amazon Virtual Machine
- Creating a Data Refresh Service Offering
- Create a Service for Creating and Modifying a User
Table 2‑1. Plug-Ins Included by Default in vRealize Orchestrator (Continued)
Plug-In Purpose
HTTP-REST Lets you manage REST Web services by providing interaction between vCenter
Orchestrator and REST hosts.
SOAP Lets you manage SOAP Web services by providing interaction between vCenter
Orchestrator and SOAP hosts.
AMQP Lets you interact with Advanced Message Queuing Protocol (AMQP) servers also
known as brokers.
SNMP Enables vCenter Orchestrator to connect and receive information from SNMP-
enabled systems and devices.
Active Directory Provides interaction between vCenter Orchestrator and Microsoft Active
Directory.
vCO WebOperator A Web view that lets you to access the workflows in the vRealize Orchestrator
library and interact with them across a network by using a Web browser.
Dynamic Types Lets you define dynamic types and create and use objects of these dynamic
types.
Multi-Node Contains workflows for hierarchical orchestration, management of Orchestrator
instances, and scale-out of Orchestrator activities.
PowerShell Lets you manage PowerShell hosts and run custom PowerShell operations.
vRealize Automation (only in the instance
embedded in vRealize Automation)
Lets you create and run workflows for interaction between vRealize Orchestrator
and vRealize Automation.
For more information about the vRealize Orchestrator plug-ins that VMware develops and distributes, see
the VMware vRealize Orchestrator Documentation landing page.
vRealize Orchestrator Integration in vRealize Automation
vRealize Orchestrator is the workflow engine integrated in vRealize Automation.
The vRealize Orchestrator server distributed with vRealize Automation is preconfigured, and therefore
when your system administrator deploys the vRealize Automation Appliance, the vRealize Orchestrator
server is up and running.
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