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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

Working with user interactions


This recipe will teach us how to create user interactions. User interactions are additional input that can be asked of users during the workflow execution.

Getting ready

We need to be able to create a new workflow.

For this recipe, you will need to have more than one AD/LDAP/SSO group configured to access Orchestrator. Remember that you can use the Orchestrator internal LDAP to test this. To facilitate this, please follow the User management recipe in Chapter 5, Basic Orchestrator Operations.

For the example in the There's more... section, we will also showcase the interaction with the vSphere Web Client.

How to do it...

We will split this recipe into two parts, the creation of the interaction workflow and the test run that will show how to answer the interaction.

Creating the workflow

  1. Create a new workflow with the following variables:

    Name

    Type

    Section

    Use

    group

    LdapGroup

    Attribute

    This contains the group that is enabled to answer the interaction

    userString...