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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

Scheduling workflows


In this recipe, you will learn how to schedule workflows. Scheduled workflows will automatically run at given times and intervals.

Getting ready

We need at least one workflow we can schedule. The workflow should not contain a user interaction.

How to do it...

  1. Right-click on the workflow you would like to schedule and choose Schedule workflow.

  2. Select Task name. By default, the task name is set to be the workflow name. A good naming standard comes in handy here, especially if you schedule recurring tasks.

  3. Set a start date and time.

  4. If this task has been scheduled in the past, you can still run the workflow. This setting is useful if a task had been scheduled but during the planned execution time, Orchestrator server was not available (for example, powered off). The task will then start as soon as Orchestrator server is available again.

  5. You can create a recurring task. You have the base setting for every minute, hour, day, week, and month. Except for the week setting, you can schedule...

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