Chapter 7. Interacting with Orchestrator
In this chapter, we will have a closer look at how you can interact with Orchestrator. We will be looking at the following recipes:
- User management
- User preferences
- Using Orchestrator through the vSphere Web Client
- Accessing Orchestrator REST API
- Accessing the Control Center via REST plugin
- Running Orchestrator workflows using PowerShell
- Using PHP to access the REST API
Introduction
Orchestrator has a REST-based API that allows you to interact with workflows as well as a lot more. We will be exploring this in this chapter in more detail.
Orchestrator used to have a SOAP API but it was discontinued; however, the VMware document
vrealize-orchestrator-70-develop-web-services-guide.pdf
still contains a chapter on it. ...
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