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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 tags


Let's explore the tagging of workflows. Tagging introduces the same kind of tagging you're familiar with from vCenter Server 5.5. Tagging allows you to add tags to Orchestrator objects and search for them.

Getting ready

You will need Orchestrator version 5.5.1 or higher. We need some workflows we can tag. You can use the example workflow if you want.

How to do it...

Tagging involves the following elements.

Tagging a workflow

Let's start by setting a tag on a workflow:

  1. Start the workflow by navigating to Library | Tagging | Tag workflow.

  2. Select the workflow you would like to tag.

  3. Enter a tag and a value.

  4. Select whether you would like this tag to be global or not. A global tag is visible to all users whereas nonglobal (private) tags are only visible to the user who places the tag.

  5. Submit the workflow.

Viewing all tags in a workflow

  1. Start the workflow by navigating to Library | Tagging | List Workflow tags.

  2. Select the workflow you would like to see a list of all its tags.

  3. After submitting...