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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
- Index
Table 1‑6. Workflow Subscription options
Option Description
New Create a new subscription.
Edit Modify the selected subscription.
If the subscription is published, the saved changes are
immediately active.
You cannot edit the event topic or modify the blocking
option for a published or unpublished subscription.
Publish Make the subscription active.
The events from the event broker service are processed and
the subscription conditions are evaluated. If a congured
condition is true, the workow is triggered.
Unpublish Return a subscription to a draft state.
The subscription is no longer active in your environment
and no longer receives events.
If you republish a subscription, the subscription starts to
receive new events. Past events are not received.
Delete Delete the selected subscription.
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Workow Subscription Event Topic Tab Seings on page 17
Event topics are classes of events provided in vRealize Automation. You select the event topic on
which to dene the subscription.
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Workow Subscription Conditions Tab Seings on page 18
The conditions you congure for the subscription determine whether the workow is triggered to run
based on the event data.
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Workow Subscription Workow Tab Seings on page 19
The vRealize Orchestrator workow that you select runs when the subscription conditions are
evaluated as true.
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Workow Subscription Details Tab Seings on page 19
The subscription details determine how the subscription is processed.
Workflow Subscription Event Topic Tab Settings
Event topics are classes of events provided in vRealize Automation. You select the event topic on which to
dene the subscription.
This page is informational. You are not required to provide any values.
To select an event topic for your workow subscriptions, select Administration > Events > Subscriptions.
Click New and select an event topic.
Table 1‑7. Event Topic Options
Option Description
Topic ID Event topic identier.
Name Name of the event topic.
Description Description of the event topic.
Publisher Name of the service for which this event topic is registered.
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