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You're reading from VMware vRealize Orchestrator Cookbook. - Second Edition

Product type Book

Published in Nov 2016

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781786462787

Pages 556 pages

Edition 2nd Edition

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Cloud Computing

Author (1):

Daniel Langenhan

Table of Contents (19) Chapters

VMware vRealize Orchestrator Cookbook Second Edition

Credits

About the Author

About the Reviewers

www.PacktPub.com

Preface

1. Installing and Configuring Orchestrator

2. Optimizing Orchestrator Configuration

3. Distributed Design

4. Programming Skills

5. Visual Programming

6. Advanced Programming

7. Interacting with Orchestrator

8. Better Workflows and Optimized Working

9. Essential Plugins

10. Built-in Plugins

11. Additional Plugins

12. Working with vSphere

13. Working with vRealize Automation

Sending and waiting for custom events

This recipe will showcase how to send interactions between workflows. This is mostly used together with asynchronous workflows, which we will explain in the recipe Using asynchronous workflows in this chapter.

Getting ready

We need to be able to create two workflows.

We will reuse the getNow action that we created in the recipe Waiting tasks in this chapter (see the com.packtpub.Orchestrator-Cookbook2ndEdition.helpers module in the example pack).

How to do it...

This recipe requires us to create two workflows and then use them together.

Receiving a custom event

First, we create the receiving part:

Create a new workflow using the setup shown in the following figure:

Create the following variables:

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Authors (1)

Daniel Langenhan

Daniel Langenhan is a Virtualisation expert with formidable skills in Architecture, Design and Implementation for large multi-tier systems. His experience and knowledge of process management, enterprise-level storage, Linux and Windows operation systems has made him and his business a highly sought after international consultancy in the Asia-Pacific and European regions for multinational clientele in the areas of Finance, Communication, Education and Government. Daniel has been working with VMware products since 2002 and is directly associated with VMWare since 2008. His proven track record of successful integrations of Virtualisation into different business areas while minimizing cost and maximizing reliability and effectiveness of the solution for his clients. Currently, Daniel is operating in the Europe and Asia-Pacific region with his company vLeet GmbH and Melbourne Business Boosters Pty Ltd. Daniel's expertise and practical approach to VMWare has resulted in the publication of the following books: Instant VMware vCloud Starter, Packt Publishing VMware View Security Essentials, Packt Publishing VMware vCloud Director Cookbook, Packt Publishing VMware vRealize Orchestrator Cookbook, Packt Publishing VMware vRealize Orchestrator Essentials, Packt Publishing He has also lent his expertise to many other publishing projects as a Technical Editor.

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Name	Type	Section	Use
`isExternalEvent`	Number	Attribute Value: false	This is a setting to indicate where Orchestrator has to listen to for the event.
`eventName`	String	IN	This is a string that contains the event identifier.
`endDate`	Date	IN...