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
Event Topics Provided With vRealize Automation
Event topics describe the type of event message that is sent to the event broker service by the other services.
You select an event topic and congure the workow subscription based on the topic.
Table 1‑4. Event Topics
Event Topic Name Description Service
Blueprint component completed A blueprint component that is part of
a composite blueprint nishes
provisioning. The component is any
blueprint that is part of a composite
blueprint.
composition-service
Blueprint component requested A blueprint component that is part of
a composite blueprint is requested.
The component is any blueprint that
is part of a composite blueprint.
composition-service
Blueprint conguration A blueprint is created, updated, or
deleted.
composition-service
Business group conguration A business group is created, updated,
or deleted.
identity
Catalog item request completed A composite blueprint nished
provisioning. This event topic
includes all blueprint components. It
does not include standalone XaaS
blueprints.
composition-service
Catalog item requested A composite blueprint is requested.
This event topic does not include
XaaSblueprints.
composition-service
Component action completed An action ran on a deployed
blueprint component when a
deployment action was requested.
composition-service
Component action requested An action to run on a deployed
blueprint component is requested
when a deployment action was
requested.
composition-service
Deployment action completed An action on a deployed blueprint
nished running, including running
all the component actions.
composition-service
Deployment action requested An action on a deployed blueprint is
requested.
composition-service
EventLog default event A standard entry is added to the
event log.
The log entry is not distributed to
subscribers.
eventlog-service
IPAM IP lifecycle event completion An IP allocation or deallocation
request is nished.
ipam-service
Machine lifecycle A provided IaaS action is run on a
provisioned machine.
iaas-service
Machine provisioning An IaaS machine is in the process of
being provisioned.
iaas-service
Orchestration server conguration A vRealize Orchestrator server
conguration is created, updated,
deleted, or modied to use a dierent
default instance.
o11n-gateway-service
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