Associate an Action to a Custom Entity Using the VMware Cloud Director Tenant Portal

By associating an action to a custom entity definition, you can execute a set of VMware Aria Automation Orchestrator workflows on the instances of a particular custom entity 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. In the card of the selected custom entity, select Actions > Associate Action.
   A new dialog opens.
3. Follow the steps of the Associate Custom Entity to VRO Workflow wizard.

   Step	Details
   Select VRO Workflow	Select one of the listed workflows. These are the workflows that are available in the Service Library page.
   Select Workflow Input Parameter	Select an available input parameter from the list. You associate the type of the VMware Aria Automation Orchestrator workflow with the type of the custom entity definition.
   Review Association	Review the details that you specified and click Done to complete the association.

Example

For example, if you have a custom entity of type SSH:Host, you can associate it with the Add a Root Folder to SSH Host workflow by selecting the sshHost input parameter, which matches the type of the custom entity.