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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 Designer provides a customizable workflow for each of these states.
Table 4‑2. Customizable State Change Workflows
Master Workflow State Customizable Workflow Name
BuildingMachine WFStubBuildingMachine
Disposing WFStubMachineDisposing
Expired WFStubMachineExpired
MachineProvisioned WFStubMachineProvisioned
RegisterMachine WFStubMachineRegistered
UnprovisionMachine WFStubUnprovisionMachine
Configuring a State Change Workflow Overview
You can customize a state change workflow by using vRealize Automation Designer. A blueprint author
can then enable it for specific blueprints.
The following is a high-level overview of the steps required to enable state change workflows:
1 A workflow developer customizes one of the state change workflow templates by using vRealize
Automation Designer. See Customize an IaaS Workflow.
Any IaaS workflow can call a vRealize Orchestrator workflow. For more information, see Using
vRealize Orchestrator Workflow Activities.
2 A tenant administrator or business group manager configures a blueprint to call the customized
workflow for machines provisioned from that blueprint. See Configure a Blueprint to Call a State
Change Workflow.
Menu Operation Workflows
A menu operation workflow is executed when a user selects an option from the Actions menu in the
service catalog or the machine menu in the Infrastructure tab.
For example, you can create a custom workflow that enables a user to create a support ticket related to a
machine by selecting Raise Support Issue from the machine menu.
vRealize Automation Designer provides templates for customizing menu operation workflows.
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