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VMware vRealize Orchestrator Cookbook

You're reading from   VMware vRealize Orchestrator Cookbook Over 90 recipes to satisfy all your automation needs and leverage vRealize Orchestrator 7.1 for your projects

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Product type Paperback
Published in Nov 2016
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781786462787
Length 556 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Daniel Langenhan Daniel Langenhan
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Table of Contents (14) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Installing and Configuring Orchestrator FREE CHAPTER 2. Optimizing Orchestrator Configuration 3. Distributed Design 4. Programming Skills 5. Visual Programming 6. Advanced Programming 7. Interacting with Orchestrator 8. Better Workflows and Optimized Working 9. Essential Plugins 10. Built-in Plugins 11. Additional Plugins 12. Working with vSphere 13. Working with vRealize Automation

Configuring access to the local filesystem

Here, you will learn how to set permissions for Orchestrator to access its local filesystem and make an external filesystem accessible to Orchestrator.

Getting ready

We need administrative access to the operating system of Orchestrator.

How to do it...

There are two ways to give Orchestrator access to its local filesystem.

Fast and easy

Orchestrator already has full access to the folder /var/run/vco and can read and write from it. You can place files there via SCP for Orchestrator to use or have Orchestrator write files into that directory.

Configuring access

If you need to access additional folders on the appliance then follow these steps:

  1. Connect to the Orchestrator appliance via SSH and root.
  2. Make sure that the directory you would like to use with Orchestrator is accessible for the Orchestrator user. The user or group should be vco.
  3. Edit the following file /etc/vco/app-server/js-io-rights.conf.
  4. To give Orchestrator access to a directory, simply add...
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