7.3
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
- Index
Prerequisites
Use the workow template provided in the Extensibility subdirectory of the vRealize Automation plugin
library to create a custom workow to run during the machine lifecycle.
Procedure
1 From the drop-down menu in the Orchestrator client, select Run or Design.
2 Click the view.
3 Select Library > vRealize Automation > Infrastructure > Extensibility.
4 Right-click the Assign a state change to a blueprint and its virtual machines workow and
select Start .
5 Choose the lifecycle stage at which to run the workow by selecting a stub from the vCAC
stub to enable drop-down menu.
6 Select an IaaS host.
7 Click Next.
8 Select the blueprint to which you want to assign the workow.
9 Choose whether or not to apply these workows to existing machines provisioned by using this
blueprint.
10 Select the workow you want to run during the machine lifecycle.
11 Congure which workow input values are added as custom properties to the machine.
a Add vCO workow inputs as blueprint properties.
b Add last vCO workow run input values as blueprint properties.
12 Click Submit.
Configuring Workflow Subscriptions to Extend vRealize Automation
You create workow subscriptions that use the event broker service to monitor the registered services for
event messages in vRealize Automation, and then run a specied vRealize Orchestrator workow when the
conditions in the subscription are met. To congure the subscription you specify the event topic, the
triggering conditions, and the workow that runs when triggered.
Tenant administrators can create and manage the workow subscriptions that are specic to their tenant.
The system administrator can create and manage system workow subscriptions. The created system
workow subscriptions are active for events in any tenant and for system events.
Life Cycle Extensibility
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