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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
Argument Description
-s | - -skills Comma-delimited list of skills to remove from this Distributed Execution Manager.
-v | - -verbose (Optional) If an error occurs, outputs a stack trace instead of just the exception message.
File Commands
The File commands enable you to store and manage les (typically scripts) in the Model Manager.
File-Export
Exports a le from the Model Manager.
Synopsis
CloudUtil.exe File-Export -n|--name <Name> -o|--output <Output File> [-i|--iteration
<Iteration>] [--repository <Model Manager Root URI>] [-v|--verbose]
File-Export Arguments
Argument Description
-i | - -iteration
(Optional) Version string of the le in the Model Manager. Default is 0.0.
-n | - -name Friendly name of the le in the Model Manager.
-o | - -output Path for le output.
- -repository (Optional) The root URI of the Model Manager, for example, hp://hostname/repository.
Default is specied in the CloudUtil cong le in the repositoryAddress key under the
<appSeings> section.
-v | - -verbose (Optional) If an error occurs, outputs a stack trace instead of just the exception message.
File-Import
Imports a le into the Model Manager.
Synopsis
CloudUtil.exe File-Import -n|--name <Name> -f|--filename <File Name> [-d|--description
<Description>] [-i|--iteration <Iteration>] [--repository <Model Manager Root URI>] [-v|--
verbose]
File-Import Arguments
Argument Description
-d | - -description (Optional) Description of the le.
-f | - -lename Path to a le to import into the Model Manager.
-i | - -iteration
(Optional) Version string of the le in the Model Manager. Default is 0.0.
-n | - -name Friendly name to assign to the le in the Model Manager.
- -repository (Optional) The root URI of the Model Manager, for example, hp://hostname/repository.
Default is specied in the CloudUtil cong le in the repositoryAddress key under the
<appSeings> section.
-v | - -verbose (Optional) If an error occurs, outputs a stack trace instead of just the exception message.
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