Appendix B. Troubleshooting vCO Workflows

This appendix covers what to do when vCenter Orchestrator (vCO) or a workflow breaks. Despite my best efforts to teach you how to build out a vCO environment and construct sound workflows, technology would not be nearly as much fun if it didn’t break. Specifically, this appendix covers the following:

Basic troubleshooting

Finding information

Debugging workflows

For each of these, when we need to show something broken, we use the “Add New Host” workflow that we built in Chapter 12, “Amazing Smoothies Day 6: New Hardware.” For reference, Figure B.1 presents the schema again.

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Figure B.1. “Add New Host” ...

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