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The API commands in the vCenter Server Appliance let you perform various administrative tasks in the vCenter Server Appliance. The API commands are provided by appliance management service in the vCenter Server Appliance. You can edit time synchronization settings, monitor processes and services, set up the SNMP settings, and so

VMworld 2016 Barcelona

VMworld 2016 Barcelona

VMworld 2016 Barcelona

VMworld 2016 Barcelona

You create workflow subscriptions that use the event broker service to monitor the registered services for event messages in vRealize Automation, and then run a specified vRealize Orchestratorworkflow when the conditions in the subscription are met. To configure the subscription you specify the event topic, the triggering conditions, and the workflow that runs when triggered.Tenant administrators can create and manage the workflow subscriptions that are specific to their tenant. The system administrator can create and manage system workflow subscriptions. The created system workflow subscriptions are active for events in any tenant and for system events.The machine provisioning and machine life cycle event topics use the same life cycle schema. The differences are in the triggering states. Machine provisioning receives messages based on provisioning states and events, and machine life cycle receives messages based on active states and events. Some provisioning states include BuildingMachine and Disposing. Some life cycle states include InstallTools and Off.The vRealize Orchestrator parameters are mapped to the event's payload by name and type. The virtual machine custom properties are not included in the event payload unless they are specified as an extensibility custom property for the life cycle state. You can add these properties to IaaSendpoints, reservations, blueprints, requests, and other objects that support custom properties.For example, if you want to include hidden properties and all properties starting with "Virtual" when the virtual machine state is BuildingMachine, you add the custom properties to the machine in the blueprint. The custom property name for this example is Extensibility.Lifecycle.Properties.VMPSMasterWorkflow32.BuildingMachine, and the values are __* andVirtual*, separated by a comma.The double underscore (__*) includes the hidden properties. The Virtual* value includes all properties that begin with virtual. The asterisk (*) is a wildcard and can be used as the only value, but using the wildcard this way results in the transfer of large amounts of data.The custom workflow that you create must have an input parameter that is payload with the type Properties. The provisioning or life cycle event data payload is put in this parameter when the workflow runs in vRealize Orchestrator. You can also include separate input parameters that match the name and the type of the fields in the event's payload.

To create an advanced service for provisioning, you must create a custom resource to define the item for provisioning. By creating a custom resource, you map as a resource an object type exposed through the API of a vRealize Orchestrator plug-in. You create a custom resource to define the output parameter of a service blueprint for provisioning and to define an input parameter of a resource action. If you do not create a custom resource, the service blueprint does not provision items on the Items tab and you cannot define post-provisioning operations for the provisioned items.You can create custom resource actions to configure the post-provisioning operations that the consumers can perform.To create post-provisioning operations, you must publish vRealize Orchestrator workflows as resource actions. To create a resource action for an item provisioned by using XaaS, you use a custom resource as an input parameter for the workflow. To create a resource action for an item that is provisioned by a source different fromXaaS, you use a resource mapping as an input parameter for the workflow. When you entitle the resource actions, they appear in the Actions drop-down menu of the provisioned items on the Items tab.

When you edit some elements in the forms designer, you can assign external value definitions that use custom vRealize Orchestrator script actions to supply information not directly exposed by the workflow.For instance, you might want to publish a resource action to install software on a provisioned machine. Instead of providing the consumer with a static list of all software available for download, you can dynamically populate that list with software that is relevant for the machine's operating system, software that the user has not previously installed on the machine, or software that is out of date on the machine and requires an update.To provide custom dynamic content for your consumer, you create a vRealize Orchestrator script action that retrieves the information you want to display to your consumers. You assign your script action to a field in the form designer as an external value definition. When the resource or service blueprint form is presented to your consumers, the script action retrieves your custom information and displays it to your consumer.You can use external value definitions to supply default or read-only values, to build boolean expressions, to define constraints, or to provide options for consumers to select from lists, check boxes, and so on.

Highlights VMworld 2015 Barcelona. For a complete list go to https://www.youtube.com/user/VMworldTV

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