The vSphere Client provides an inventory of vSphere items that are available for management. You can define context actions for specific vSphere inventory objects and run Automation Orchestrator workflows on those objects from the vSphere inventory.

Procedure

  1. Log in to the vSphere Web Client.
  2. On the Automation Orchestrator home page, click the Context Actions tab.
  3. Click Add.
  4. In the search box, enter the name of the workflow that you want to add as a context action.
  5. Select the workflow in the results table.
  6. In the Type of object dropdown menu, select which vSphere object you want to associate with the context action, such as a vCenter server, for example.
  7. Click Assign.
    You added a Automation Orchestrator workflow as a context action.
  8. Run the workflow on the vCenter server that you associated with the action.
    1. In the vSphere Client, right click the vCenter server.
    2. Select Orchestrator > Run Workflow.
    3. Select the context action workflow to run on the vCenter server.
      The workflow input form appears. If the workflow has as an input parameter of the particular inventory type over which you initiated the context action, the form is prepopulated.
    4. Click Run.