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VMware vRealize Orchestrator Cookbook - Second Edition

By : Daniel Langenhan
Book Image

VMware vRealize Orchestrator Cookbook - Second Edition

By: Daniel Langenhan

Overview of this book

VMware vRealize Orchestrator is a powerful automation tool designed for system administrators and IT operations staff who are planning to streamline their tasks and are waiting to integrate the functions with third-party operations software. This book is an update to VMware vRealize Orchestrator Cookbook and is blend of numerous recipes on vRealize Orchestrator 7. This book starts with installing and configuring vRealize Orchestrator. We will demonstrate how to upgrade from previous versions to vRealize Orchestrator 7. You will be taught all about orchestrator plugins and how to use and develop various plugins that have been enhanced in Orchestrator 7. Throughout this book, you will explore the new features of Orchestrator 7, such as the introduction of the control center, along with its uses. You will also come to understand visual programming, how to integrate base plugins into workflows, and how to automate VMware. You will also get to know how to troubleshoot vRealize Orchestrator. By the end of this book, you will be able to get the most out of your Orchestrator installation, and will be able to develop complex workflows and create your own highly integrated automations of vRealize environments.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
VMware vRealize Orchestrator Cookbook Second Edition
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface

Waiting tasks


This is a recipe that will make you wait for it...

Getting ready

We need a new workflow and time!

How to do it...

There are two different kinds of wait tasks, tasks that wait for a duration and tasks that wait for a specific date and time until they proceed.

Creating a help task

We need to create an action to help us track time. It will just log the current date and time. The action already exists in the action folder com.packtpub.Orchestrator-Cookbook2ndEdition.helpers:

  1. Create a new action and call it getNow. There is no need to define any in- or out-parameters.

  2. In the script section, place the following script:

          var current = new Date(); 
          System.log(current); 
    

Using the Sleep task

  1. Create a new workflow.

  2. Drag a Sleep task onto the schema and create the sleepTime in-parameter as input for the workflow.

  3. Add the getNow action we have just created before and after the Sleep task.

  4. When running the workflow, check the log. You will notice how the workflow will wait for the...