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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

Accessing the Control Center via the REST plugin


In this recipe, we have a closer look at the Orchestrator Control Center.

Getting ready

We need access to the Orchestrator Control Center.

Add the Orchestrator Control Center to the REST plugin as shown in the recipe Working with REST in Chapter 9, Essential Plugins .

How to do it…

The recipe has been broken up into several sections, just work through them.

Explore the Control Center API

We will be having a look at the possibilities of the Control Center API:

  1. Open a browser to the URL and authenticate with your Control Center account: https://[Orchestrator]:8283/vco-controlcenter/docs/

  2. You now are connected to the swagger UI, which helps you explore the Control Center API.

  3. Expand server-controller and check out GET /api/server/status and POST /api/server/status/start. We used these functions in recipe Working with REST in Chapter 9, Essential Plugins.

Adding start and stop calls

Create control workflows for your Remote Orchestrators.

  1. Check out the...

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