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Controlling Processes from an External Application with SOAP Calls

The CA Process Automation Orchestrator exposes Web services that allow external applications to start and control processes in a library. SOAP calls require valid XML. The Web services methods and parameters exposed are described in the WSDL. For details, retrieve the WSDL from the appropriate domain URL, depending on whether CA Process Automation supports secure communication and is clustered. In the following examples, load_balancer_hostname is the host name or IP address for the Apache load balancer.

• Secure and unclustered:

  https://<DomainOrchestrator_hostname>:8443/itpam/soap?wsdl 
  

• Unsecure and unclustered:

  http://<DomainOrchestrator_hostname>:8080/itpam/soap?wsdl 
  

• Secure and clustered:

  https://<load_balancer_hostname>:<Apache_secure_port>/itpam/soap?wsdl 
  

  Note: The secure port of Apache is typically 443.

• Unsecure and clustered:

  http://<load_balancer_hostname>:<Apache_unsecure_port>/itpam/soap?wsdl 
  

  Note: The unsecure port of Apache is typically 80.

For sample scripts that use SOAP calls to the CA Process Automation Orchestrator to start processes, navigate to the following folder:

<install_dir>/server/c2o/.c2orepository/public/scripts/trigger 

Note: The <install_dir> path is typically C:\Program Files\CA\PAM.

The Java subfolder contains a Java-based tool and all the resources the tool requires to start CA Process Automation processes remotely using SOAP. The path to the Java subfolder follows:

<install_dir>/server/c2o/.c2orepository/public/scripts/trigger/java