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• ticket MKS in Perl SDK - vSphere 4.1

  Hi all

  I try to write the script for AcquireTicket of MKS in perl SDK 4.1 vSphere

  Pleas see an attached Perl file.

  AcquireTicket info:

  http://www.VMware.com/support/developer/VC-SDK/visdk41pubs/ApiReference/Vim.virtualmachine.html#acquireTicket

  I have the answer:

  ./ticketmks.pl --server IP --username User --password Pass --vmname vm_name_fromvCenter --operation ticket
  Get AcquireTicket "vm_name_fromvCenter" ticket Type: mks ...
  Error:
  SOAP Fault:
  -----------
  Fault string: A specified parameter was not correct.
  ticketType
  Fault detail: InvalidArgumentFault
  

  What I am doing wrong?
  Why can I not get the MKS?
  Help, please

  The SOAP fault is always the more descriptive message, but usually when you get "a specified parameter was not correct", this means that you do not pass parameters to a method of giving. If you take a look at the reference for the API for the AcquireTicket() method, you will notice that it accepts a single parameter ticketType and it is of type string. Looking at your script, you try to instantiate the object VirtualMachineTicketType, which is incorrect.

  You must update the execution of the method as follows:

  My = $vm $task-> AcquireTicket (ticketType-online "mks");

  and must now return back VirtualMachineTicket

• Cannot install VMware-vSphere-Perl-SDK - 5.0.0 on Debian

  HI -.

  I try to install the latest version of the SDK VMware Perl (VMware-vSphere-Perl-SDK-5.0.0-422456.x86_64.gz) on a Debian GNU/Linux "lenny" release.

  root: / usr/local/nagios/vmware-vsphere-cli-distrib #./vmware-install.pl
  Create a new vSphere CLI installer using the tar4 format.
  Installation of vSphere CLI 5.0.0 build-422456 for Linux.
  You must read and accept the vSphere CLI end-user license agreement for
  continue.
  Press ENTER to display it. q
  Do you accept? (yes/no) Yes
  Thank you.
  Cat: / etc / *-output: no such file or directory
  SH: rpm: command not found
  OpenSSL-devel is not installed on the system.
  OpenSSL-devel-0.9.7 is required for encrypted connections.
  Please install openssl-devel version 0.9.7 or higher.
  SH: rpm: command not found
  e2fsprogs is not installed on the system
  e2fsprogs-1.38 is required for the UUID.
  Please install e2fsprogs 1.38 or higher.
  root: / usr/local/nagios/vmware-vsphere-cli-distrib # dpkg-l e2fsprogs
  II e2fsprogs 1.41.3 - 1 ext2/ext3/ext4 file system utilities

  Clearly the Setup is broken.

  So, my question is - is the installer deliberately broken (IE, no support for Debian) or is it a perl error code that needs fixing?

  Thank you

  Chris

  As William, he will not be supported, but you can use the SDK Software VMware Perl quite easily on any platform of Perl (I did it with window as well).  I did specifically on Ubuntu and OS X over the years.

  Install the requirements of the module as shown in "vSphere SDK Perl Source Code installation on Linux".  In the source package, copy the folder VMware vmware vsphere-cli-distrib/lib/VMware/sharing of archive download Perl Linux SDK to your path to Perl.

  For required modules, you can use PPM, CPAN or apt get the packages.

  I ran this way for years without any problem, but this obviously isn't an official support statement

  You should be able to simply do not put a proxy during Setup.  It's there in case it is necessary to download the module dependencies.

• Upgrade to vSphere 6 perl SDK, SOAP errors

  After the successful upgrade of vSphere 6u2, I can no longer run scripts API:

  
  

  vmcreate.pl - url https://${vcenter}: 443/sdk / webService < parameters >

  Results in:

  Error creating the VM 'testVM ':
  
  Fault SOAP:
  -----------
  Fault string: refused permission to perform this operation.
  Fault of details: NoPermissionFault

  I updated and tried the last SDK perl as well, the same error.

  I have administrator rights on vCenter level, all objects of multiplication.

  Suggestions more than welcome!

  Thank you!

  Just an update for those who also have this problem.

  Looks for from vmcreate.pl API call requires privileges of grater on object of data than those fixed in vSphere 5.5 Center,.

  I have documented more details in my blog. http://www.virtualflow.NET/2016/05/vSphere-6u2-permissions-vs-Perl-SDK-API-calls/

  Hope that helps! This thread can be closed.

• PowerCLI vs Perl SDK

  On the side of PowerCLI, I can run:

  set-model - < name > - tovm

  .. what allows to convert a template to a virtual machine.

  Perl SDK side, I found the MarkAsVirtualMachine call which seems to do something similar.

  However, on the side of Perl SDK the above call requires a ResourcePool be passed while the PowerCLI command does not require a ResourcePool.

  In our environment, we do not use set ResourcePools - we have ClusterComputeResources, but that did not help me.

  Can anyone offer suggestions to get something on the side of Perl SDK which performs similarly to the game model on the side PowerCLI?

  Thank you

  M

  Yes, they probably have to jump the host.

  my $vm_name = "test_vm_template";
  my $vm = Vim::find_entity_view(view_type => 'VirtualMachine', filter => { 'name' => $vm_name });
  my $host_ref = $vm->{'runtime'}{'host'};
  my $host = Vim::get_view(mo_ref => $host_ref, properties => ['name', 'parent']);
  my $compute = Vim::get_view(mo_ref => $host->{'parent'}, properties => ['name', 'resourcePool']);
  my $pool = Vim::get_view(mo_ref => $compute->{'resourcePool'}, properties => ['name']);
  
  # Now use $pool as parameter to MarkAsVirtualMachine
  

  I do this completely in the SDK documentation, so I'm sure that there are some typos.

• Support for Perl SDK for ESXi vmclone.pl without vCenter

  I try to use version 5.5 of SDK Perl vmclone.pl.  I have an ESXi with VM Server I want to clone remote.  However, when I try to invoke the perl scipt, I get an error "Operation is not supported by the current agent.

  I was led to believe that the Perl SDK works on ESXi without vCenter Server.  Is this correct?  My mistake for another reason?

  vSphere SDK for Perl can run on ESXi and vCenter, this is just an interface with the API. However, in the case of cloning that is a feature, it is only exposed when vCenter Server is in the picture. You cannot issue a clone operation directly on an ESXi host and this is why the fault was lifted.

• a few questions on the perl sdk

  I've been using perl sdk for 3.5.1 for awhile and I sued to connect with the virtual Center as follows

  Vim::login (service_url = & gt; "https://lbz0893/sdk/vimService", user_name = & gt;... .

  This no longer works on the new vsphere. can someone help me get started with this.

  (2) is there any sdk perl for Mrs. that I can use to create recovery plans and execute them?

  Thank you.

  In fact, there is an API of SRM , but there seems to be any client-side stubs. You may be able to use SOAP::Lite, however, not sure. The API is also quite minimal in its current form.

  =====

  Carter Shanklin

  Read the PowerCLI Blog
  [Follow me on Twitter |] http://twitter.com/cshanklin]

• Perl SDK for VM API storage policy

  I understand that it has Java SDK API of VM storage, but we mainly use Perl SDK for vSphere for monitoring before any decision on the integration of strategies of VM storage and virtual infrastructure together in what I would like to ask if there is a plan to release Perl for Vm Storage Policy API SDK? Anoyone know what Perl SDK plan in this area is?

  Thanks in advance for any thoughts,

  DRB

  Well, anyone interested, so made myself... Thanks anyway!

  DRB

• vCenter Linked Mode and Perl SDK

  Hello

  our VMware environment is divided into two physical places represented as two instances of vCenter. The two vCenters are interconnected. I think that its Mode called "related"?

  Is it possible to use the Perl SDK also bound mode? Currently, I have to manually interrogate both our vCenters and then sort out myself.

  (1) How to configure Perl SDK so I only authenticate once against our environment in Linked mode?

  (2) How can I build queries against the API so results will include objects in the two vCenters? That is to say. If I run a ' Vim::find_entity_views (view_type = > 'VirtualMachine') "I want to get all the objects 'VirtualMachine' in the two vCenters I can avoid running two separate queries and then later combining query results? ".

  Thank you!

  Thomas Willert

  It is not a published API method, but there is a way to get the vCenter server list in a group of related modes.  I have an explanation and sample code: http://www.virtuin.com/2012/12/querying-vcenter-linked-mode-with.html

  With respect to authentication, if your vCenter instances use the same permissions (which is recommended), then it's just a matter to authenticate each vCenter.  This is what the native client as well (if you have never installed vCenters with different permissions, you will see the login for each vCenter prompt).

  If you look at the blog post I linked earlier, you self an example of authentication each vCenter as well.  Basically you call Util::connect() two times, once for each of your URL for vCenter.  However, do not delete the global VIM uses the SDK package, or it will default to the last vCenter.  I show in the example script: LinkedModeExample.pl

  With respect to the combination of queries... not so easy.  You need to redesign each vCenter with $vim-> find_entity_views().  Now on a more advanced note, API is powerful enough to make custom inventory queries, you can usually pick up and keep the updates in your objects.

  What I would recommend as a simple approach is two calls to find_entity_views, then push them in a hash or an array.  You'll just want to use the UUID vCenter:

  $vc_uuid is $vim1-> get_service_content()-> {'about'}-> {'instanceUuid'};.

  The instanceUuid has been added in vCenter 4.x and later versions (do not have in the past 2.5 vCenter instances).  Then use this instanceUuid + moref as hash keys.  This is important because the morefs can be duplicated between vCenters.

  So, you can then create a hash:

  My % vm_hash;

  foreach my {$entity (@$vm_views)}

  My $moref = $entity-> {'mo_ref'}-> {'value'}; # will be vm-# for virtual machines

  $vm_hash {$vc_uuid.} "+". $moref} = $entity;

  }

  Then you can quickly research specific VMs and keep separate them between vCenters.

  You'll find it works for simple data queries, but you start to get more items of inventory (say for an inventory report), the relationship becomes more complex and the number of objects grow.  I did work to push these values in a database and files (including by running it on 5 or less than weight and WaitForUpdatesEx), excel, which works well if you have the time to build the DB and the work of database object schemas.  Just use instanceUuid + Moref value as primary key to prevent any moref vCenter cross reuse value.

  The other option is that the vim reference is added to each object, so you can just get the data of each entity:

  foreach my {$vm (@$vm_views)}

  Print "VM:". "." $vm-> {'name'}. "\n";

  Print "InstanceUuid VC:". $vm-> {'vim'}-> {'service_content'}-> {'about'}-> {'instanceUuid'}. "\n";

  Print "ServiceUrl VC:". $vm-> {'vim'}-> {'service_url'}. "\n";

  }

  I have a project that I tinker with in my spare time (which is rare these days) which aims to consolidate multiple vCenters into one database for queries and reports, but I didn't get far enough away from share it (very rude, but works for a subset of data at present, but it is very effective for collecting loose on<5s intervals).="">

  You can also look into VMware Orchestrator.  Orchestrator can connect to multiple vCenters and caches data for access by automation.  According to your WAN performance, he can work a geographic site and make sure that you need (just watch the moref, names of entities and other potential overlap between vCenters) aggregated data.

• Delete VM via Perl SDK

  Hello world

  I am looking for a way to remove a virtual machine from a vCenter using Perl SDK.

  It seems that there is no delete() method after obtaining a find_view call vm refernce. There is register and unregister, but I could not find anywhere how to destroy a machine virtual destructive as opposed to simply cancel the registration. I must be missing something and guess that it may not be so complicated because it is a fundamental operation that someone would want to perform.

  Someone at - it an extracted Perl which can share in it considered here?

  Thank you.

  Attached is the complete script inspired by vmregister.pl which is part of the SDK for Perl sample set.

  Be warned of this successful run this script against a virtual machine in vcenter will destroy and will be UNRECOVERABLE. Use it with caution and at your own risk.

• prototype allows to substitute the get/set accessor?

  Is - this there anyway use the prototype to override a getter/setter? I know that you can override the functions as follows:

      prototype.toString = function()
      {
          // statements
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  I was wondering if it is possible to do the same thing with a getter/setter?  If so, what is the syntax?

  Thank you

  j

  No way to add running replacements, or change the class definition at run time or even create new classes at runtime, unless you build through the old regime of prototype classes, that use without Flex classes.

  Alex Harui

  Flex SDK Developer

  Adobe Systems Inc..

  Blog: http://blogs.adobe.com/aharui

• Table 2D-strings in the "get/set item property.

  I am porting the code of veristand 2009-2010 and I noticed that the get/set vi item property does not the same. Specifically, I can't write or read 2D strings sent as variants. When I put the 2D table in a cluster, it works fine. Does anyone have information on this?

  JY

  Hi JY,.

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• How to get/set asking for information about the step

  Hello

  I want to get the name of the step, type of step, step during the test limit, and also I want to change the limit in the test case, how can I do this?

  BR

  Bendy

  already know how to do it access to the step object, then can get/set information of it.

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  Step = SeqContextDisp-> AsPropertyObject()-> GetPropertyObject("Step",0);

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• Is it possible to get/set the cursor position in a TextArea?

  Hi all

  I went through the documentation and can't find a way to get/set the position of the cursor to a TextArea. Someone has an idea?

  Thank you

  Dong

  You want to see the property "Editor"? https://developer.BlackBerry.com/Cascades/reference/bb__cascades__textfield.HTML#editor

• Parsing XML and get the attributes of a tag

  Hello

  When parsing XML for application of Cascades in C++, I am able to get the value of a tag as follows:

  00000

  But I also want to get the attributes of a tag:

  But I don't know how to get the 'CA' and 'California' attributes with my current code.  Can anyone help?  Here is the code I use to parse the XML code:

  void CMController::requestFinished(QNetworkReply* reply) {
  
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          QXmlStreamReader xml;
  
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          QString id;
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  I found a working example:

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