Mayank Goyal
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Multi-NIC VMs with static IPs in VCF Automation
Build VCF Automation VMs with up to three optional NICs, each static or DHCP, any number of data disks with their own sizes, and…
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Free utilities for Orchestrator and VCF Automation developers.
Search the Orchestrator scripting API: classes, methods and plug-in objects for 8.x and 9.x.
An MCP server that lets your AI assistant build, run and debug Orchestrator workflows.
Open a .package file in the browser and browse its workflows, actions and elements.
Paste a curl command and get the equivalent Orchestrator JavaScript.
A Chrome extension that gives the Orchestrator script editor room to breathe.
Generate clean documentation for your Orchestrator actions.
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Disable Git Push from Non-Dev Orchestrators [CB10133]
Keep git pushes limited to your Dev Orchestrator by giving non-Dev Orchestrators a read-only GitLab project access token and Dev a read-write one. Shows the push…
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Bulk cancel Running Workflows in Orchestrator [CB10132]
Cancel many running Orchestrator workflows at once with a workflow that uses the REST API. Give it the FQDN, a Bearer token and a cutoff date,…
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Lock Orchestrator workflows | Make them Noneditable
Hide the Edit button on critical Orchestrator workflows. Import my lockWorkflow package and run Lock or Unlock a Workflow, which sets allowed-operations to vf through the…
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3 Types of Aria Automation Orchestrator
Standalone, Embedded and CExP (Cloud Extensibility Proxy) are the three types of Aria Automation Orchestrator. A side-by-side look at their usability, services, authentication and licensing, plus…
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Simplest base64 conversion in Orchestrator
A tiny trick to base64 encode and decode strings in Orchestrator without the Crypto plugin. Set the action runtime to Node.js 18 and use Buffer.from() with…
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Generate NSX ALB CSRFToken in Orchestrator
Calling the NSX ALB (formerly Avi Networks) REST API needs a CSRFToken for every POST, PUT or DELETE. Here is an Orchestrator action that logs in…
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Importance of Orchestrator in Aria Automation
Orchestrator does much more than run workflows inside Aria Automation. A tour of where it plugs in: Day-2 custom actions, event subscriptions, dynamic enums, Service Broker…
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Native Polyglot Libraries: Working with Orchestrator Python Action
Write a Python 3.7 action in Orchestrator using only the native libraries. A step-by-step example uses http.client, ssl and xml.etree to call VMware Chargeback, skip certificate…
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