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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

Workflow auto documentation


This recipe will showcase the automatic documentation ability of Orchestrator. We will learn what Orchestrator documents and how it documents workflows.

Getting ready

We need at least one workflow for this recipe that we can document. A good example workflow would be one that contains other workflows, actions, and scriptable tasks.

How to do it...

  1. Right-click on a workflow or a folder and select Generate Documentation.

  2. Select a directory and give the file a name.

A PDF with the documentation is now created.

How it works...

The documentation that is created isn't that flashy, but it is quite useful. The created PDF document contains the following sections:

Section

Description

Versions

This is a summary of all existing versions this workflow has, including the create date, create user, and any comments you have made regarding this version.

Inputs

This contains a list of all the in-parameters of the workflow as well as their type and description.

Outputs

This...

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