How to make an Orchestrator workflow visible in VMware Aria Operations

Products

• VCF Operations/Automation (formerly VMware Aria Suite)

Issue/Introduction

You have custom workflows configured in Aria Automation Orchestrator and want to import them into Aria Operations.

By default only below 2 out of the box packages are imported in Aria Operations and only workflows under them are visible in the Aria operations Inventory

• com.vmware.library.vcenter
• com.vmware.vrops.oob_content

Environment

Aria Operations 8.18.x

Aria Operations management pack for Aria Automation Orchestrator 3.3.0.21628483

Resolution

The workaround is mentioned in the Package Discovery documentation of the management pack

We need to look for desired package names in the Orchestrator UI as shown below

Then manually add these package names to the file in the 'Configure package discovery' Action on the Orchestrator Adapter instance. Example of the file below:

#Contains the list of packages to be included.
#Add package details in each line with the format <packageName> to discover new packages.
#Below mentioned vCenter package is discovered by default.
com.vmware.library.vcenter
com.vmware.vrops.oob_content
<new_package>

 

Tip: Edit the above file in a notepad and add custom package names in the list on new lines. After you click on begin action check in Administration -> Control Panel->Recent tasks if the import is successful or failed for each package.

The workloads will automatically imported in Aria Operations once the packages are visible in the Inventory under the Orchestrator adapter instance.