Trigger a Aria Automation Orchestrator Workflow from a Aria Operation Alert

In this post i want to show you how you can trigger a Aria Automation Orchestrator Workflow from a defined alert definition in Aria operations. Here are the steps which are needed: Create the Aria Operation Symptom Definition First we have to create a “Symptom Definiton” in Aria Operation. In the symptom definition we will…

Syncronize Windows Active Directory in vIDM (Workspace One Access) Aria Automation 8 (former vRealize Automation)

In this blog I will show you how you can synchronize the AD which is added to the vIDM used by Aria Automation. Prerequisites For the Synchronization we need the Active Directory Config ID. The ID can be get from the vIDM as shown below. Login into vIDM and select “Administration Console” Navigate to Identity…

Get Aria Automation Deployment Lease Time by remaining days

In this post I show you how you can get the the remaining Lease days by a given number of days. This can be used to send an email to the Owner of the Deployment before the Deployment Lease will be expired. Prerequisites: Create an Aria Automation Orchestrator Action with following Inputs and Return Type…

Get a Aria Automation Orchestrator (former vRealize Orchestrator) Configuration Element by Global Tag name

In the post I will show you how to can get an Attribute from a Orchestrator Configuration Element. this is very useful, if you need a Attribute wich is stored in a Configuration element in an Orchestrator Action. Steps are: Create a Orchestrator Configuration Element Navigate to Configuration Create a NEW Folder or use an…

Call Aria Automation REST API from a Aria Automation Orchestrator Workflow

In this post I show you how you can call the Aria Automation REST API from a Aria Automation Orchestrator Action. Prerequisites: Create an Action with following inputs and Return type: The Return value is a JSON string. If you want get the values of the JSON string you must convert it to an JSON…

Get Configuration Element Attribute Value from Aria Automation Orchestrator

In this post I show you how you can get a Configuration Element Attribute from an Aria Automation Orchestrator Configuration Element. I am using that to get e.g. the Aria Automation Host (former vRealize Automation) from an Orchestrator Configuration Element. This is very useful to get the Automation Host in an Orchestrator Action. See also…

vRA 8 Cloud Template with multiple disks and SCSI Controller and Unit Number Selection

In this post I show you how you can deploy a VM with multiple disks. and SCSI Selection Following steps are needed: Create Cloud Template Navigate to Design -> Cloud Templates -> NEW FROM and select blanc canvas Enter a Name and select a Project and click on CREATE Enter the following Code into YAML…

Create automatically a vRealize Automation Deployment Name with locale Date and Time

In this blog post I will show you how you can create automatically a vRealize Automation Deployment name which contains the local Date and Time and makes the Deployment name unique. How you get the local Unix Time with the JavaScript Module “moments” you can reach out the blog Convert the vRO Date with the…