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Published inNov 2016
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ISBN-139781786462787
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Daniel Langenhan
Daniel Langenhan
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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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Working with SOAP


This recipe focuses on the interaction between Orchestrator and a SOAP-based server. We will learn how to add a SOAP host to Orchestrator and execute SOAP operations.

Getting ready

We need a host that can present SOAP operations for Orchestrator to use. If you don't have a SOAP host that you can access, you can follow our example.

Orchestrator's SOAP API has been retired and is not available anymore.

To add a SOAP-based service to the Orchestrator host, we need its WSDL address.

For our example, we will use http://www.webservicex.net to test our SOAP plugin. The WSDL we will use is http://www.webservicex.net/globalweather.asmx?WSDL .

How to do it...

Again, this recipe is split into different parts.

Adding a new SOAP client

Before we can execute any SOAP operations, we need to add the SOAP interface of a host to Orchestrator:

  1. Open the Orchestrator Client and switch to Design mode.

  2. Make sure that you have imported the SSL certificate of the SOAP host (refer to the Important Orchestrator...

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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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