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Send vRA Deployment Lease Expiration Mails

A vRO action that pulls all vRA deployments from the Deployments API, handles pagination, works out the days left on each lease and emails the owners…

Posted by Mayank Goyal13 Mar 20235 min read0 comments
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Upload a vRO package using vRO Node.js action [CB10108]

vRO handles multipart uploads poorly, so this uses a Node.js polyglot bundle as a read-only filesystem holding your package. Import the uploadPackageToVro.zip bundle into an action…

Posted by Mayank Goyal10 Mar 20236 min read1 comment
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Workflow to run a Workflow over RESTAPI Dynamically

A vRO workflow that triggers another workflow on a remote vRO over the REST API using a transient REST host, plus an action that builds the…

Posted by Mayank Goyal26 Feb 20235 min read0 comments
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Zip Bundle: Run Polyglot script with external library bundle [CB10106]

Run a Python script with external modules in vRO by bundling them as a zip: pip install into a lib folder, add your handler file, zip…

Posted by Mayank Goyal18 Feb 20233 min read3 comments
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Create ESXi root account with vRO

Create and manage ESXi local user accounts from vRO with the Scripting API. A createEsxiLocalUser action sets the access mode (Admin, ReadOnly, NoAccess), and a downloadable…

Posted by Mayank Goyal22 Dec 20222 min read0 comments
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Edit text-based Resource Elements On-The-Go [CB10103]

Updating a text-based resource element in vRO usually means export, edit and re-import. This workflow package lets you pick a resource element such as a YAML…

Posted by Mayank Goyal14 Dec 20222 min read0 comments
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How to modify vRO Workflow description using REST [CB10117]

Change a vRO workflow’s description without opening the editor. Use the vRO REST API Swagger page: GET the workflow schema by id, edit the description in…

Posted by Mayank Goyal6 Dec 20222 min read0 comments
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Different Ways to restart Orchestrator 8.x [CB10101]

Restarting Orchestrator 8.x safely, all in one place: kubectl rollout or scaling the vco-app pod, deploy.sh over SSH, Control Center, a guest OS restart in vSphere,…

Posted by Mayank Goyal22 Nov 20223 min read1 comment
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Differences between VMware Aria Automation Orchestrator Forms and VMware Aria Automation Service Broker Forms

Orchestrator input forms and Service Broker custom forms do not behave the same. Covers what Service Broker cannot see through the VRO-Gateway, workarounds for workflow variables,…

Posted by Mayank Goyal17 Oct 20225 min read0 comments
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Find Object Types in vRealize Orchestrator [CB10100]

Ways to find the type of an object in vRO JavaScript: typeof, System.getObjectType(), System.getObjectClassName() and instanceof. Each comes with a results table and code examples, including…

Posted by Mayank Goyal23 Sep 20224 min read2 comments
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Advanced JavaScript Snippets in vRO

Some slightly modern JavaScript that works in vRO’s Rhino engine: lodash as an external module, first-class functions, Object.defineProperty, custom classes with prototypes, private variables, labels, the…

Posted by Mayank Goyal13 Sep 20224 min read0 comments
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Official VMware Guides for vRO and vRA 8.x [CB10118]

Download links for VMware’s official PDF guides on Aria Automation (vRA 8.x) and Orchestrator: Assembler, Pipelines, Consumption, Config, migration, ServiceNow, load balancing, installation, developer and plug-in…

Posted by Mayank Goyal19 Aug 20222 min read0 comments
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Action Environments: Orchestrator Polyglot Script Environments [CB10098]

Since vRO 8.8, environments let Python, Node.js and PowerShell scripts pull npm, pip or PSGallery packages directly, with no zip bundles. Walk through creating an environment…

Posted by Mayank Goyal20 Jul 20223 min read8 comments
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Code Obfuscation in Orchestrator

Does Orchestrator run obfuscated JavaScript? A quick experiment: take a vRO action that decodes vSphere license details, run it through obfuscator.io, paste the scrambled output back…

Posted by Mayank Goyal24 Jun 20223 min read1 comment
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Getting Started: Cloud Assembly Code Examples

A collection of Cloud Assembly YAML snippets for vRA 8.x cloud templates: literals, environment and resource variables, conditions, operators, inputs, property bindings, secrets, dropdowns with enum…

Posted by Mayank Goyal14 Jun 202217 min read0 comments
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Valid JavaScript Variable names in vRO

Did you know var π = Math.PI; is valid in vRO? A look at which Unicode characters JavaScript allows in identifiers, the reserved words you cannot…

Posted by Mayank Goyal31 May 20224 min read1 comment
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List of PowerShell Modules in vRO 8.x [CB10121]

The PowerShell modules preinstalled in vRO 8.x, compared side by side for the PowerShell 7.x and 6.x runtimes, including the PowerCLI and PowerNSX modules, plus a…

Posted by Mayank Goyal25 May 20221 min read0 comments
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Change your OAuth 2.0 token strategy using Scripting API

vRO 8.7 added a choice of how OAuth 2.0 REST hosts send their bearer token: the oauth_token query parameter or the more secure Authorization header. A…

Posted by Mayank Goyal23 May 20222 min read0 comments
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Don’t Ignore .gitignore in vRO 8.x

Using git with vRO 8.x? A .gitignore file at the repo root keeps test actions, environment-specific configuration elements, packages, library content and multi-node workflows out of…

Posted by Mayank Goyal16 May 20223 min read5 comments
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vRO Debugger: How to Use Breakpoints and Watch Expressions

Stop scattering System.log() lines through your code. Use the Orchestrator debugger to pause an action on a breakpoint, step through it line by line, and test…

Posted by Mayank Goyal13 May 20224 min read0 comments