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VMware vRealize Orchestrator Cookbook

By : Daniel Langenhan
Book Image

VMware vRealize Orchestrator Cookbook

By: Daniel Langenhan

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (15 chapters)
VMware vRealize Orchestrator Cookbook
Credits
Foreword
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Workflow auto documentation


This recipe will showcase the automatic documentation ability of Orchestrator. We will learn what Orchestrator documents and how it documents workflows.

Getting ready

We need at least one workflow for this recipe that we can document. A good example workflow would be one that contains other workflows, actions, and scriptable tasks.

How to do it...

  1. Right-click on a workflow or a folder and select Generate Documentation.

  2. Select a directory and give the file a name.

  3. A PDF with the documentation is now created.

How it works...

The documentation that is created isn't that flashy, however, it is quite useful. The created PDF document contains the following sections:

Section

Description

Versions

This is a summary of all existing versions this workflow has, including the create date, create user, and any comments you have made in regards to this version.

Inputs

This contains a list of all in-parameters of the workflow as well as their type and description.

Outputs

This...