7.1
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
RunProcess
Executes a process on the same machine as the DEM that executes this activity.
Note vRealize Automation cannot present the UI from processes launched by the RunProcess activity to
the user, therefore these process must be non-interactive. In order to avoid leaving orphaned processes
on the DEM machine, the processes must also be self-terminating.
Table 8‑33. RunProcess Activity Input Parameters
Argument Type Description
Command String Path to the executable to run on the DEM machine.
WorkingDirectory String (Optional) The working directory under which the process should
run.
Arguments String (Optional) The list of command-line arguments to pass to the
command.
WaitForExit bool (Optional) If true, the workflow waits for the process to complete
before continuing with the workflow. Default is false.
This option is only available in the Properties pane and not in
the Designer pane.
SendEmail
Sends an email to the given set of addresses.
Table 8‑34. SendEmail Activity Input Parameters
Argument Type Description
To IEnumerable<string> The list of addresses to which to send the email.
From String The address with which to populate the “From” field of the email.
Subject String The subject line for the email.
Body String The body text of the email.
Host String The host name or IP address of the outgoing SMTP server.
Port Integer The SMTP port on the server specified in Host.
This option is only available in the Properties pane and not in
the Designer pane.
CC IEnumerable<string> (Optional) The address or list of addresses to copy on the email.
This option is only available in the Properties pane and not in
the Designer pane.
Bcc IEnumerable<string> (Optional) The address or list of addresses to blind copy on the
email.
This option is only available in the Properties pane and not in
the Designer pane.
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