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Contents
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Life Cycle Extensibility 5
Machine Extensibility Overview 5
Machine Life Cycle Extensibility 5
Choosing a Life Cycle Extensibility Scenario 7
Extending Machine Lifecycles By Using vRealize Orchestrator 7
Extending Machine Lifecycles by Using vRealize Orchestrator Checklist 7
Conguring the vRealize Automation Plug-in for Machine Extensibility 8
Customizing IaaS Workows By Using vRealize Orchestrator 11
Conguring Workow Subscriptions to Extend vRealize Automation 12
Event Topics Provided With vRealize Automation 13
Workow Subscriptions and Event Broker Terminology 14
Blockable and Replyable Event Topics 15
Best Practices for Creating vRealize Orchestrator Workows for Workow Subscriptions 16
Workow Subscription Seings 16
Working with Provisioning and Life Cycle Workow Subscriptions 21
Working with Approval Workow Subscriptions 37
Troubleshooting Workow Subscriptions 41
Extending Machine Life Cycles By Using vRealize Automation Designer 44
Extending Machine Life Cycles By Using vRealize Automation Designer Checklist 44
Installing and Conguring vRealize Automation Designer 45
Customizing IaaS Workows By Using vRealize Automation Designer 48
Workows and Distributed Execution Management 61
Associate Workows and DEM Workers by Using Skills 62
Remove Associations between Skills and DEM Workers 62
Remove Associations between Skills and Workows 63
Remove a Skill 63
CloudUtil Command Reference 63
DEM Commands 63
File Commands 65
Operation Commands 67
Skill Commands 69
Workow Commands 70
Import Commands 72
vRealize Automation Workow Activity Reference 74
DynamicOps.Repository.Activities 74
DynamicOps.Cdk.Activities 77
Index 85
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