VMware vRealize Orchestrator Cookbook

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VMware vRealize Orchestrator Cookbook

By : Daniel Langenhan

Book Image

VMware vRealize Orchestrator Cookbook

By: Daniel Langenhan

Overview of this book

VMware vRealize Orchestrator Cookbook

VMware vRealize Orchestrator Cookbook

Credits

Foreword

About the Author

About the Author

About the Reviewers

About the Reviewers

www.PacktPub.com

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Preface

Free Chapter

Installing and Configuring Orchestrator

Installing and Configuring Orchestrator

Getting Orchestrator running in 5 minutes (or less)

Deploying the Orchestrator appliance

Installing Orchestrator on Windows

Two ways to configure Orchestrator

Important Orchestrator base configurations

Configuring Orchestrator with an external LDAP or Active Directory

Integrating Orchestrator into SSO and vSphere Web Client

Configuring an external database

Optimizing Orchestrator Configuration

Optimizing Orchestrator Configuration

Tuning the appliance

Backup and recovery

Creating an Orchestrator cluster

Configuring the Orchestrator Service SSL certificate

Configuring e-mail

Redirecting Orchestrator Syslog to an external Syslog server

Configuring the Kerberos authentication

Configuring access to the local filesystem

Updating Orchestrator

Visual Programming

Visual Programming

Workflow basics

Version control

Working with logs

Error handling in workflows

Resuming failed workflows

Using the workflow debugging function

Working with decisions

Working with loops

Working with presentations

Working with configurations

Working with actions

Linking actions in presentations

Sending and waiting for custom events

Using asynchronous workflows

Working with user interactions

Changing credentials

Working with Plugins

Working with Plugins

Working with the API

Working with mails

File operations

Working with SSH

Working with XML

Working with SQL

Working with PowerShell

Working with SOAP

Working with REST

Working with Active Directory

Working with SNMP

Working with AMQP

Basic Orchestrator Operations

Basic Orchestrator Operations

Basic Orchestrator operations for Orchestrator elements

Changing elements in a workflow

Undelete workflows and actions

Importing and exporting Orchestrator elements

Synchronize Orchestrator elements between Orchestrator servers

Working with packages

User management

User preferences

Scheduling workflows

Workflow auto documentation

Orchestrator and vSphere Web Client

Advanced Operations

Advanced Operations

Accessing the Orchestrator API via REST

Working with resources

Working with tags

Working with locks

Language packs (localization)

Working with policies

Managing remote Orchestrator

Working with VMware Infrastructure

Working with VMware Infrastructure

Unmounting all the CD-ROMs of all VMs in a cluster

Provisioning a VM from a template

An approval process for VM provisioning

Working with the vCenter API (to change a VM's HA settings)

Standard vSwitch and Distributed Switch ports

Executing a program inside a VM

Configuring a vRA instance in Orchestrator

Configuring an external Orchestrator in vRA

Adding an Orchestrator endpoint

Integrating Orchestrator workflows in vRA

Managing AD users with vRA

Index

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Configuring e-mail

In this recipe, we will configure a default e-mail server that can be used with Orchestrator.

Getting ready

As always, we need a working Orchestrator installation. We also need an e-mail server (SMTP) as well as an e-mail account we can use with it.

How to do it...

To start configuring a default e-mail server, perform the following steps:

Log in to Orchestrator Configurator of Orchestrator Server.
Click on the Mail section.
Tick Define default values; the screen will now show the configuration items.
Fill in the required information and click on Apply Changes.

How it works...

Mail is an extremely important tool in Orchestrator. You can use an e-mail to send not only notifications to users but also interaction requests; you can also use Orchestrator workflows to check an e-mail server and wait for a specific e-mail to arrive.

The e-mail workflows and actions that are implemented in Orchestrator can use either the default settings that we have just configured or custom settings, however...