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
InvokeRepositoryWorkflow
Executes a workow installed in the Model Manager.
Table 1‑34. InvokeRepositoryWorkflow Activity Input Parameters
Argument Type Description
WorkowType WorkowDenition entity The workow to execute.
WorkowInputs Dictionary<string, object> (Optional) Inputs to the workow.
CallingInstance WorkowInstance entity (Optional) The workow that calls the executed workow
and to which it will return.
LoadProperty
Loads deferred content for a specied property from the data service.
Table 1‑35. LoadProperty Activity Input Parameters
Argument Type Description
DataServiceContext RepositoryServiceContext
The DataServiceContext from which to load the
property.
Instance Object The entity that contains the property to load.
InstanceProperty String The name of the property of the specied entity to load.
SaveChanges
Saves the changes that the DataServiceContext is tracking to storage.
Table 1‑36. SaveChanges Activity Input Parameters
Argument Type Description
DataServiceContext RepositoryServiceContext
The DataServiceContext that is tracking the changes to
save.
SetLink
Noties the DataServiceContext that a new link exists between the objects specied and that the link is
represented by the property specied in the SourceProperty argument.
Table 1‑37. SetLink Activity Input Parameters
Argument Type Description
DataServiceContext RepositoryServiceContext
The DataServiceContext to notify of the link.
Source Object The source object for the new link.
SourceProperty String The property on the source object that identies the target
object of the new link.
Target Object The child object involved in the new link to initialize by
calling this method. The target object must be a subtype of
the type identied by SourceProperty. If Target is set to
null, the call represents a delete link operation.
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