You can create a custom entity and map it to an existing VMware Aria Automation Orchestrator object type in VMware Cloud Director.

Prerequisites

This operation requires the Custom Entity rights to be included in the predefined user role.

Procedure

  1. From the primary left navigation panel, select Libraries and from the secondary left navigation panel, under Services, select Custom Entity Definitions.
    The list of custom entities appears in a card view of 12 items per page, sorted by names alphabetically. Each card shows the name of the custom entity, the VMware Aria Automation Orchestrator type to which the entity is mapped, the type of the entity, and a description, if available.
  2. To add a new custom entity, click New.
    A new dialog box opens.
  3. Follow the steps of the Custom Entity Definition wizard.
    Step
    Name and Description

    Enter a name and, optionally a description for the new entity.

    Enter a name for the entity type, for example, sshHost.

    vRO From the drop-down menu, select the VMware Aria Automation Orchestrator that you will use to map the custom entity definition.
    Note: If you have more than one VMware Aria Automation Orchestrator server, you must create a custom entity definition for each one of them separately.
    Type Click the view list icon to browse through the available VMware Aria Automation Orchestrator object types grouped by plug-ins. For example, SSH > Host.

    If you know the name of the type, you can enter it directly in the text box. For example, SSH:Host.

    Review Review the details that you specified and click Done to complete the creation.

Results

The new custom entity definition appears in the card view.