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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
Troubleshooting a vRealize Orchestrator Workflow That Does Not Run for an Approval
Request 53
Troubleshooting a Rejected Approval Request That Should Be Approved 54
Troubleshooting a Rejected Approval Request 54
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Extending Machine Life Cycles By Using vRealize Automation Designer 56
Extending Machine Life Cycles By Using vRealize Automation Designer Checklist 56
Installing and Configuring vRealize Automation Designer 57
Installing vRealize Automation Designer 57
Configuring vRealize Orchestrator Endpoints 59
Customizing IaaS Workflows By Using vRealize Automation Designer 61
The vRealize Automation Designer Console 61
IaaS Workflow Types 63
Customize an IaaS Workflow 65
Using vRealize Orchestrator Workflow Activities 66
Configure a Blueprint to Call a State Change Workflow 71
Configuring a Menu Operation Workflow 72
Revert to a Previous Revision of a Workflow 76
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Workflows and Distributed Execution Management 77
Associate Workflows and DEM Workers by Using Skills 77
Remove Associations between Skills and DEM Workers 78
Remove Associations between Skills and Workflows 78
Remove a Skill 79
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CloudUtil Command Reference 80
DEM Commands 80
DEM-Add-Skills 80
DEM-List 81
DEM-Remove-Skills 81
File Commands 82
File-Export 82
File-Import 82
File-List 83
File-Remove-All 83
File-Remove-Rev 84
File-Rollback 84
File-Update 85
Operation Commands 85
Operation-Create 85
Operation-Delete 86
Operation-List 86
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