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
customizing checklist for vRealize
Orchestrator 7
enabling 57, 61
menu operation workflows 51, 52, 61
overview 11, 48
restricting execution to DEMs 61
reverting to previous revision 61
state change workflows 50, 51, 57
types of workflows 50
installation
downloading the vRealize Automation
Designer installer 46
prerequisites 45
vRealize Automation Designer 45
L
life cycle, workflow subscriptions 21
lifecycles
extending checklist for vRealize Automation
Designer 44
extending with vRealize Automation
Designer 44
extending with vRealize Orchestrator 7
M
Machine-BulkRegisterExport, generate CSV data
file 72
Machine-BulkRegisterImport, virtual machine 73
master workflows, workflow subscriptions 26
menu operations
configuring 58
installing 60
registering 60
menu operation 57
menu operation configuration file, creating 58
model manager 45
N
namespace
DynamicOps.Cdk.Activities 77
DynamicOps.Repository.Activities 74
P
provisioning, workflow subscriptions 21
R
replyable, workflow subscriptions 15
S
skills
associating with workflows and DEMs 62
overview 61
removing 63
removing association with DEMs 62
removing association with workflows 63
states, workflow subscriptions 22, 23, 27
T
troubleshooting
approval policy workflow subscriptions 43
machine provisioning take too much time 42
workflow subscription workflows 42
workflow subscriptions 41, 43
V
vCenter Orchestrator
object types 56
prerequisites 47
specifying an endpoint on a blueprint 48
vCenter Orchestrator workflows, calling from
IaaS workflows 53, 54
virtual machine
Machine-BulkRegisterExport 72
Machine-BulkRegisterImport 73
managed 73
vRealize Orchestrator
extending vRealize Automation 5
integrating 47
vRealize Automation Designer
installing 46
vRealize Automation Designer console 49
vRealize Automation host, configuring 8, 10, 11
vRealize Automation plug-in 8
W
workflow subscriptions
approvals 37, 39, 40
best practices 16
blockable 15
conditions 18
configure errors 34
details settings 19
event topic tab 17
life cycle 21
life cycle schema 21
life cycle state definitions 22
master workflow 26
provisioning 21
provisioning schema 21
replyable 15
settings 16
terminology 14
timeout override 34
troubleshooting 41
workflow subscription
event topics 13
post-provisioning 35, 36
Life Cycle Extensibility
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