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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
CloudUtil Command Reference 7
This section provides a reference to the commands in the CloudUtil command line interface.
CloudUtil is the command line interface for the vRealize Automation Designer. You run the commands on
the Windows machine on which you are running the designer. The default installation location on the
Windows machine is C:\Program Files (x86)\VMware\vCAC\Design Center.
Note In the CloudUtil commands, the Model Manager is referred to as the repository and a Distributed
Execution Manager (DEM) is referred to as an agent.
This chapter includes the following topics:
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DEM Commands
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File Commands
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Operation Commands
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Skill Commands
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Workflow Commands
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Import Commands
DEM Commands
The DEM commands enable you to view a list of Distributed Execution Managers registered with the
Model Manager and add or remove associations between skills and DEMs.
DEM-Add-Skills
Associates skills with a registered Distributed Execution Manager.
Synopsis
CloudUtil.exe DEM-Add-Skills -n|--name <Name> -s|--skills <Skills> [--repository <Model Manager Root
URI>] [-v|--verbose]
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