Kicking off workflow from Action

[dgberrid]

Hello All,

I am wondering how to kick off a workflow in Orchestrator when an Action is performed on a VM. For instance, if a user selects the destroy action on a VM a workflow in Orchestrator is executed. 

[AlexJudge]

Yes, this is possible using the Event Broker Service. When the Destroy action is called, vRA will run through a series of internal workflow states, from which you can call a vRO workflow.

Have a look here for details on how EBS works:

Exploring the vRealize Automation 7.0 Event Broker – Part 1 | The Virtual Viking

[dgberrid]

Thank you for the info. Is there anything like this provided in 6? 

[AlexJudge]

Ah, yes. My bad. The equivalent functionality in v6 is known as Extensibility.

Have a read here, the basic functionality is the same, it just gets configured in a different way.

http://www.vmtocloud.com/how-to-extend-vcac-with-vco-part-1-installation/