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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
Table 4‑4. Event Topic Options (Continued)
Option Description
Replyable Indicates whether an event topic subscription can publish a reply
event to the service that originally produced the event. If the
value is yes, a reply is sent to the service that published the
original event when the workflow finishes. The reply contains the
output of the vRealize Orchestrator workflow and any error
details.
Schema Describes the structure of the event's payload.
You can use the schema to create workflows that can use the
payload information.
Workflow Subscription Conditions Tab Settings
The conditions you configure for the subscription determine if the workflow is triggered to run based on
the event data.
If you select Run based on conditions, the available options can include
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Data. Information in the event message that is specific to the selected event topic. For example, if you
create a condition for the machine life cycle event topic, the data fields are related to blueprints and
machines compared to a pre-approval event topic where the data fields are related to approval
policies.
You can also add conditions for fields that are not included in the schema by entering the path in the
text box above the tree. Use the format ${PATH}. PATH is the path in the schema. Separate the
nodes using ~. For example, ${data~machine~properties~SomeCustomProperty}.
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Core event message values. General information about the event message. For example, the event
type, time stamp, or user name.
To select an event topic for your workflow subscriptions, select Administration > Events >
Subscriptions. Click New.
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