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VMware vRealize Orchestrator Cookbook

You're reading from   VMware vRealize Orchestrator Cookbook Over 90 recipes to satisfy all your automation needs and leverage vRealize Orchestrator 7.1 for your projects

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Product type Paperback
Published in Nov 2016
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781786462787
Length 556 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Daniel Langenhan Daniel Langenhan
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Table of Contents (14) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Installing and Configuring Orchestrator FREE CHAPTER 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

Scripting with decisions


In this workflow, we will see how decisions can be implemented into scripts. You will learn how to create basic and custom decisions.

Getting ready

We just need a working Orchestrator, and you will need the rights to create new workflows and run them. We will work with the Orchestrator Client.

We need a new workflow where we can add a decision. You also should know how to work with logs.

For the Decision activity element, we will be using the example workflow 00.00 BasicWorkflow, which is stored in the Basic Helper folder.

How to do it...

There are three decisions that can be used in Orchestrator; we will discuss them in the following sections.

Basic decision

The Basic decision lets you check a single variable against a condition. A condition is always something that is either true or false. For example, the condition 5 > 3 is true, whereas the condition Team contains i  is false.

  1. Create a new workflow and define an in-parameter of the String type.

  2. Assemble the structure...

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