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VMware vRealize Orchestrator Cookbook. - Second Edition

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
Languages
Author (1):
Daniel Langenhan Daniel Langenhan
Profile icon 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

Working with user interactions


This recipe will teach us how to create user interactions. User interactions are additional inputs 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 recipe User management in Chapter 7, Interacting with Orchestrator.

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:

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    Name

    Type

    Section

    Use

    Group

    LdapGroup

    IN

    This contains the group that is enabled to answer the interaction.

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