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
Argument Description
-r | - -revision Revision of the workflow to revert to.
-v | - -verbose (Optional) If an error occurs, outputs a stack trace instead of just the exception message.
Workflow-Update
Update a customizable workflow with a new revision.
CloudUtil.exe Workflow-Update -f|--filename <File Name> -n|--name <Name> [-d|--description
<Description>] [--repository <Model Manager Root URI>] [-v|--verbose]
Table 7‑5. Workflow-Update Arguments
Argument Description
File Name Path to a file (XAML) containing the updated workflow.
Name Name of the workflow to update.
Description (Optional) Description of workflow.
- -repository (Optional) The root URI of the Model Manager, for example, http://hostname/repository. Default is
specified in the CloudUtil config file in the repositoryAddress key under the <appSettings>
section.
-v | - -verbose (Optional) If an error occurs, outputs a stack trace instead of just the exception message.
Import Commands
The import commands enable you to import one or more virtual machines into a vRealize Automation
deployment.
Machine-BulkRegisterExport
Creates a CSV data file that is used to import virtual machines to a vRealize Automation deployment.
Synopsis
CloudUtil.exe Machine-BulkRegisterExport [-b|--blueprint] [-m|--managed] [-e|--exportNames] [-p|--
properties] -f|--filename <Value> [-g|--group <Value>] [-i|--ignore] [-o|--owner <Value>] [-t|--
machinetype <Value>] [-n|--resourceName <Value>] [-r|--resourceType <Value>] [--repository <Value>] [-
sn|--sourcename <Value>] [-st|--sourcetype <Value>] -u|--user <value> [-v|--verbose]
Machine-BulkRegisterExport Arguments
Table 7‑6.
Argument Description
-b | - -blueprint (Optional) Include blueprint name.
-e | - -exportNames (Optional) Export names instead of GUIDs.
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