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vCO-CLI

I attended a VMworld TAM Customer Central session this morning title "What's Next in vCenter Orchestrator" (a.k.a. vRealize Orchestrator).  One of the cool features is vCO-CLI, which has actually been available for about 8 months now as a VMware Fling (  https://labs.vmware.com/flings/vco-cli  ).  I'm by no means an expert but have used vCO-CLI to debug an issue I was having so I thought I would throw together a short page on it.  This will hopefully give an idea of how the tool can be used.  I'm not going to go through how to install the plug-in. I'll start with creating a very basic workflow which takes just a VcHostSystem as an Input parameter. Next, I'll add just a Scriptable task with my VcHostSystem as an IN parameter.  This Scriptable task has only one line which is what starts the vCO-CLI session. That's it!  Now we can run the workflow providing a VcHostSystem object. If you check the Logs tab on the running workflow then y