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stizzly
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vRO Event triggers

Hello,

I've a question, regarding Microsoft Deployment Toolkit (MDT) and vRealize Orchestrator.

Until now, I've a automated orchestrator and MDT installation, it boots via PXE boot and the Orchestrator writes stuff in the MDT DB, so the MDT Server knows, which settings the VM should get.

But after the sucessfull completion of the MDT installation, I want to have a trigger, so that the Orchestrator knows, that the MDT installation is done and he can continue his Workflow, how todo that? I thought about restarting the VM through the MDT Task Sequence and the Orchestrator can see, that the Power is off and continues after some seconds, but I am sure, there are more solutions. Or is there any way to use PowerShell to send the Orchestrator, that the task is done?

Thanks in advance and greetings from Germany Smiley Happy

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jacksonecac
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I am not a MDT expert by any means at all but a few different ideas of how to trigger off this would be:

1. a rest call to vRO to fire a workflow based on the server MDT was working with.

2. query MDT via vRO on a timer and find any newly updated information and fire workflows based off updated fields. The SQL plugin is pretty straight forward to look for this.

Hope that helps.

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stizzly
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Thanks for the help, in the end, I simply used the "vim3VMwareToolsStarded" action, so I install VMware tools through the MDT at the very last step, after that, the VMware Tools start and the Workflow realise, that he can continue.

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