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
vRealize Automation Workflow Activity Reference
VMware provides a library of workow activities with vRealize Automation Designer for use in
customizing workows.
N The CDK is deprecated beginning with vRealize Automation 7.0. You can use the
vRealize Orchestrator workows to address use cases that you previously addressed with CDK.
Five categories of Windows Workow Foundation activities are also included in vRealize Automation
Designer, including Control Flow, Flowchart, Primitives, Collection and Error Handling.
This section provides a reference to the IaaS workow activities included with vRealize Automation
Designer in the DynamicOps.Repository.Activities and DynamicOps.Cdk.Activities namespaces. Activities
related to calling vRealize Orchestrator workows are described in “Using vRealize Orchestrator Workow
Activities,” on page 53.
N In the IaaS activity library, the Model Manager is referred to as the repository.
DynamicOps.Repository.Activities
The DynamicOps.Repository.Activities namespace contains basic workow activities for IaaS workows.
N The CDK is deprecated beginning with vRealize Automation 7.0. You can use the
vRealize Orchestrator workows to address use cases that you previously addressed with CDK.
AddLink
Adds the specied link to the set of objects the DataServiceContext is tracking.
Table 1‑27. AddLink Activity Input Parameters
Argument Type Description
DataServiceContext RepositoryServiceContext
The DataServiceContext to which to add the link.
Source Object The source object for the new link.
SourceProperty String The name of the navigation property on the source object
that returns the related object.
Target Object The object related to the source object by the new link.
AddObject
Adds the specied object to the set of objects the DataServiceContext is tracking.
Table 1‑28. AddObject Activity Input Parameters
Argument Type Description
DataServiceContext RepositoryServiceContext
The DataServiceContext to which to add the object.
Instance Object
The object to be tracked by the DataServiceContext.
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