- VMware vRealize Orchestrator Cookbook Second Edition
- VMware vRealize Orchestrator Cookbook Second Edition
- Credits
- About the Author
- About the Reviewers
- www.PacktPub.com
- Preface
- 1. Installing and Configuring Orchestrator
- 2. Optimizing Orchestrator Configuration
- Introduction
- Tuning the appliance
- Tuning Java
- Configuring the Kerberos authentication
- Configuring access to the local filesystem
- Configuring the Orchestrator service SSL certificate
- Orchestrator log files
- Redirecting Orchestrator logs to an external server
- Backup and recovery
- Control Center titbits
- 3. Distributed Design
- Introduction
- Building an Orchestrator cluster
- Load-balancing Orchestrator
- Upgrading a cluster
- Managing remote Orchestrators
- Synchronizing Orchestrator elements between Orchestrator servers
- 4. Programming Skills
- Introduction
- Version control
- Changing elements in a workflow
- Importing and exporting Orchestrator elements
- Working with packages
- Workflow auto documentation
- Resuming failed workflows
- Using the workflow debugging function
- Undelete workflows and actions
- Scheduling workflows
- Sync presentation settings
- Locking elements
- 5. Visual Programming
- 6. Advanced Programming
- Introduction
- JavaScript complex variables
- Working with JSON
- JavaScript special statements
- Turning strings into objects
- Working with the API
- Creating actions
- Waiting tasks
- Sending and waiting for custom events
- Using asynchronous workflows
- Scripting with workflow tokens
- Working with user interactions
- 7. Interacting with Orchestrator
- Introduction
- User management
- User preferences
- Using Orchestrator though the vSphere Web Client
- Accessing Orchestrator REST API
- Accessing the Control Center via the REST plugin
- Running Orchestrator workflows using PowerShell
- Using PHP to access the REST API
- 8. Better Workflows and Optimized Working
- 9. Essential Plugins
- 10. Built-in Plugins
- Introduction
- Working with XML
- Working with SQL (JDBC)
- Working with SQL (SQL plugin)
- Working with PowerShell
- Working with SOAP
- Working with Active Directory
- Working with SNMP
- Working with AMQP
- 11. Additional Plugins
- 12. Working with vSphere
- 13. Working with vRealize Automation
- Introduction
- Working with the vRA-integrated Orchestrator
- Automating a vRA instance in Orchestrator
- Configuring an external Orchestrator in vRA
- Adding Orchestrator as an infrastructure endpoint
- Adding an Orchestrator endpoint
- Integrating Orchestrator workflows as XaaS Blueprints
- Managing AD users with vRA
- Using the Event Manager to start workflows
We will have a quick look at the locking mechanism of Orchestrator.
For locking workflows, we need a workflow that we can use to lock, primarily, a workflow that calls other actions or workflows. If you don't have one in hand, use the 06.06.01 Using Asynchronous Workflows example workflow.
There are only two options in the locking system.
To lock a workflow, action, or package, follow these steps:
- Right-click on a workflow, action, or package.
- Navigate to Locking | Lock or Locking | Lock with dependencies. The Lock with dependencies option will lock all subworkflows and subactions that are used in this workflow.
Notice that the little lock icon on the item you have locked; you will not be able to edit this workflow anymore. However, you are still able to run it.
Locking locks the edit mode of a workflow, which marks it as not accessible. Anyone with Admin rights can place or lift a lock.
A lock disables Edit, Delete, Synchronize, and Move. Locks cannot be exported.
Workflow locking actually has nothing to do with the locking system (see the Using the locking system recipe in Chapter 8, Better Workflows and Optimized Working). Workflow locking locks workflows and actions, whereas the locking system locks resources.
Locks can be useful in a production environment where one wants to make sure that an important production workflow can't be altered.
The Using the Locking System recipe in Chapter 8, Better Workflows and Optimized Working.
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