Two of my colleagues recently launched a new website. It is probably one of the few vCenter Orchestrator Blogs out there and definitely worth following for anyone who is into orchestration and automation.
Besides of course covering the vCenter Orchestrator 4.1 release extensively they wrote multiple very useful and detailed articles on vCenter Orchestrator.
One of the first articles explains how to create a self provisioning portal with vCO in a detailed stepwise approach. They have just published a follow called "part 2". The article cover the following steps which result in a self provisioning portal:
- How to create a simple Workflow
- How to map inputs, outputs, and attributes
- How to launch a Workflow from a webview, using the vCenter Orchestrator Weboperator
- How to launch a Workflow from the vCenter Orchestrator Client
- How to create a Workflow using subworkflows
- How to map inputs, outputs, and attributes
- How to use user interactions
- How to do basic presentations
- How to use validation presentation properties
- How to handle exception and write to the event log
- How to use vCO Server and System objects in scriptable boxes
- How to use the API search
- How to launch a Workflow from the vCenter Orchestrator Client
- How to launch a Workflow from a webview, using the vCenter Orchestrator Weboperator
- How to set rights on workflows
- How to set up the vCO mail plug-in
