7.4
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
Configuring Workflow Subscriptions to Extend
vRealize Automation
You create workflow subscriptions that use the event broker service to monitor the registered services for
event messages in vRealize Automation, and then run a specified vRealize Orchestrator workflow when
the conditions in the subscription are met. To configure the subscription you specify the event topic, the
triggering conditions, and the workflow that runs when triggered.
Tenant administrators can create and manage the workflow subscriptions that are specific to their tenant.
The system administrator can create and manage system workflow subscriptions. The created system
workflow subscriptions are active for events in any tenant and for system events.
Event Topics Provided With vRealize Automation
Event topics describe the type of event message that is sent to the event broker service by the other
services. You select an event topic and configure the workflow subscription based on the topic.
Table 1‑4. Event Topics
Event Topic Name Description Service
Blueprint component completed A blueprint component that is part of a
composite blueprint finishes provisioning.
The component is any blueprint that is
part of a composite blueprint.
composition-service
Blueprint component requested A blueprint component that is part of a
composite blueprint is requested. The
component is any blueprint that is part of
a composite blueprint.
composition-service
Blueprint configuration A blueprint is created, updated, or
deleted.
composition-service
Business group configuration A business group is created, updated, or
deleted.
identity
Catalog item request completed A composite blueprint finished
provisioning. This event topic includes all
blueprint components. It does not include
standalone XaaS blueprints.
composition-service
Catalog item requested A composite blueprint is requested. This
event topic does not include
XaaSblueprints.
composition-service
Component action completed An action ran on a deployed blueprint
component when a deployment action
was requested.
composition-service
Component action requested An action to run on a deployed blueprint
component is requested when a
deployment action was requested.
composition-service
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