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Table Of Contents
- Life Cycle Extensibility
- Contents
- Life Cycle Extensibility
- Machine Extensibility Overview
- Extending Machine Lifecycles By Using vRealize Orchestrator
- Configuring Workflow Subscriptions to Extend vRealize Automation
- Event Topics Provided With vRealize Automation
- Workflow Subscriptions and Event Broker Terminology
- Blockable and Replyable Event Topics
- Best Practices for Creating vRealize Orchestrator Workflows for Workflow Subscriptions
- Workflow Subscription Settings
- Working with Provisioning and Life Cycle Workflow Subscriptions
- Configuring vRealize Orchestrator Workflows for Provisioning and Life Cycle Workflows
- Workflow Subscription Life Cycle State Definitions
- Configuring the Timeout Values for States and Events
- Configuring the Error Behavior for States and Events
- Scenario: Take a Post-Provisioning Snapshot of a Virtual Machine
- Working with Approval Workflow Subscriptions
- Troubleshooting Workflow Subscriptions
- Troubleshooting vRealize Orchestrator Workflows That Do Not Start
- Troubleshooting Provisioning Requests That Take Too Much Time
- Troubleshooting a vRealize Orchestrator Workflow That Does Not Run for an Approval Request
- Troubleshooting a Rejected Approval Request That Should Be Approved
- Troubleshooting a Rejected Approval Request
- Extending Machine Life Cycles By Using vRealize Automation Designer
- Extending Machine Life Cycles By Using vRealize Automation Designer Checklist
- Installing and Configuring vRealize Automation Designer
- Customizing IaaS Workflows By Using vRealize Automation Designer
- Workflows and Distributed Execution Management
- CloudUtil Command Reference
- vRealize Automation Workflow Activity Reference
Table 4‑1. Event Topics (Continued)
Event Topic Name Description Service
Orchestration server configuration (XaaS)
- Obsolete
A vRealize Orchestrator server
configuration is created, updated,
deleted, or modified to use a different
default instance.
advanced-designer-service
Post Approval A post-approval policy level is configured
to use the event subscription option.
approval-service
Pre Approval A pre-approval policy level is configured
to use the event subscription option.
approval-service
Resource reclamation completion event A resource lease expired and the
resources are reclaimed.
management-service
Workflow Subscriptions and Event Broker Terminology
As you work with the workflow subscriptions and the event broker service, you might encounter some
terminology that is specific to the subscriptions and event broker service.
Table 4‑2. Workflow Subscription and Event Broker Terminology
Term Description
Event Topic Describes a set of events that have same logical intent and the
same structure. Every event is an instance of an event topic.
Event Indicates a change in the state in the producer or any of the
entities managed by it. The event is the entity that records
information about the event occurrence.
Message Transports information about the event between the various
services and components. For example, from the producer to
the event broker service, or from the event broker service to the
subscribers.
Event Broker Service The service that dispatches messages that are published by a
producer to the subscribed consumers.
Payload The event data.
Subscription Indicates that a subscriber is interested in being notified about
an event by subscribing to an event topic and defining the
criteria that triggers the notification.
Subscriber Consumes the events published to the event broker service
based on the subscription definition. The subscriber might also
be referred to as the consumer.
Provider Registers event topics in the event broker service.
Producer Publishes events to the event broker service.
System Administrator A user with privileges to create, read, update, and delete tenant
workflow subscriptions and system workflow subscriptions using
the API or vRealize Automation plug-in. vRealize Automation
does not include a user interface for the system administrator.
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