VMware vRealize Orchestrator Essentials

Logs and errors

As logs and errors go well together, let's use them. We will improve the InstallFreshVM workflow to catch errors, as follows:

1. Open the InstallFreshVM workflow for editing.
2. Click on Schema and open the Log toolbox.
3. Drag a System Error element onto the Create simple virtual machine element.
4. You will see that System Error connects itself to the Create simple virtual machine element with a dashed red line. This is the error line.
5. Click on the edit symbol of the Create simple virtual machine element and have a look at the Exception tab. You will find that a new attribute called errorCode is linked to the element. Check out the IN-parameters of the System Error element. You will also find the errorCode attribute here. These were automatically ...