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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

Linking actions in presentations


This recipe will show how to further improve and automate presentations in workflows by linking actions into them. This is done to present to the user only a specific list of options derived on runtime.

Getting ready

We will create a new workflow and reuse the action getElementFromArray, which we created in the recipe Creating actions in Chapter 6, Advanced Programming (see the com.packtpub.Orchestrator-Cookbook2ndEdition module in the example pack).

You should be familiar with the topics we introduced in the recipe Workflow presentations in this chapter.

How to do it...

  1. Using the Orchestrator Client, create a new workflow.

  2. Create the following variables:

    Name

    Type

    Section

    Use

    string

    String

    IN

    This is a placeholder for the linked action

    number

    Number

    IN

    This is used to select a value from an array

    array

    Array of string

    Attribute

    This can take values such as Mon, Tue, Wed, Thu, Fri, Sat, Sun

  3. Create a log element and bind all variables...