Configure the Automation Orchestrator Plug-in for the vSphere Web Client

To use the Automation Orchestrator plug-in for the vSphere Web Client, you must register Automation Orchestrator as an extension of vCenter.

After you register your Automation Orchestrator server with vCenter Single Sign-On and configure it to work with vCenter, you must register Automation Orchestrator as an extension of vCenter.

Prerequisites

• Verify that SSH access is enabled for the Automation Orchestrator Appliance. See Activate or Deactivate SSH Access to the Automation Orchestrator Appliance.
• You must register Automation Orchestrator with vSphere authentication to the same Platform Services Controller that your managed vCenter instance authenticates with.
• Copy the vco-plugin.zip to the Automation Orchestrator Appliance:
  1. Download the vco-plugin.zip file from the VMware Technology Network.
  2. Open an SSH client.
     Note: For Linux or MacOS environments, you can use the Terminal command-line interface. For Windows environments, you can use the PuTTY client.
  3. To copy the vco-plugin.zip file, run the secure copy command.

     For Linux/MacOS: scp ~/<zip_download_dir>/vco-plugin.zip root@<orchestrator_FQDN_or_IP>:/data/vco/usr/lib/vco/downloads/vco-plugin.zip

     For Windows: pscp C:\<zip_download_dir>\vco-plugin.zip root@<orchestrator_FQDN_or_IP>:/data/vco/usr/lib/vco/downloads/vco-plugin.zip

Procedure

1. Log in to the Automation Orchestrator Client.
2. Navigate to Library > Workflows.
3. Search for the Register vCenter Orchestrator as a vCenter Server extension workflow, and click Run.
4. Select the vCenter instance to register Automation Orchestrator with.
5. Enter https://your_orchestrator_FQDN or the service URL of the load balancer that redirects the requests to the Automation Orchestrator server nodes.
6. Click Run.