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VMware vRealize Orchestrator Essentials

By : Daniel Langenhan
Book Image

VMware vRealize Orchestrator Essentials

By: Daniel Langenhan

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (18 chapters)
VMware vRealize Orchestrator Essentials
Credits
Foreword
Foreword
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Using the Orchestrator Client


Before we actually start working with the Orchestrator workflows, we should first have a look at how the Orchestrator Client works.

Introducing the Orchestrator Client

To open the Orchestrator Client, perform the following steps:

  1. Open a web browser such as Firefox, IE, or Chrome.

  2. Enter the IP or FQDN of the Orchestrator Appliance. The Orchestrator homepage opens.

  3. Click on Start Orchestrator Client.

  4. Your Java environment will now start. You may be required to acknowledge that you really want to start this application.

  5. You will now be greeted with the login to Orchestrator. If you have configured Orchestrator with SSO (see Chapter 2, Deploying and Configuring the Orchestrator Appliance), enter a user who is a member of the Orchestrator Admin group. If you are using an unconfigured Orchestrator, just enter vcoadmin as the username and vcoadmin as the password. This is a preconfigured user that allows you to login and use Orchestrator directly.

  6. Click on Login. The Orchestrator...