This recipe focuses on the interaction between Orchestrator and a SOAP-based server. We will learn how to add a SOAP host to Orchestrator and execute SOAP operations.
We need a host that can present SOAP operations for Orchestrator to use. If you don't have a SOAP host that you can access, you can use Orchestrator itself. Orchestrator has a SOAP as well as a REST interface.
The SOAP interface of Orchestrator is scheduled to disappear but at the time of writing this, we can still use it.
To add a SOAP-based service to the Orchestrator host, we need its WSDL address; for Orchestrator, this is https://[IP or FQDN Orchestrator]:8281/vco/vmware-vmo-webcontrol/webservice?WSDL.
Again, this recipe is split into different parts.