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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
vRealize Automation Plug-In Functional Prerequisites
To install and use the vRealize Automation plug-in, your system must meet certain functional
prerequisites.
vRealize Automation
You must have access to a vRealize Automation server. Version 7.0 of the plug-in works with
vRealize Automation 7.0.
For information about setting up vRealize Automation, see vRealize Automation Installing vRealize
Automation 7.0.
vRealize Orchestrator Server
Version 7.0 of the plug-in works with vRealize Orchestrator 7.0.
For information about setting up Orchestrator, see Installing and Configuring VMware
vRealize Orchestrator.
Other Prerequisites
For full plug-in functionality, you must uninstall Web Distributed Authoring and Versioning (WebDAV) from
your Microsoft Web Server (IIS) role services.
Install the vRealize Automation Plug-In On an External
vRealize Orchestrator Server
You can install the plug-in on an external vRealize Orchestrator server by using the Orchestrator control
center interface.
Prerequisites
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Download the .vmoapp file that contains the plug-in.
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Log in to the vRealize Orchestrator control center interface at http://orchestrator_server:
8283/vco-controlcenter.
Procedure
1 In the Plug-Ins section, click Manage Plug-Ins.
2 Click Browse and locate the .vmoapp file.
3 Click Open.
4 Click Install.
What to do next
Configure the vRealize Automation plug-in.
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