Remove a NIC vCloud several virtual machines

Hello

I am a vCO and extremely raw newbie with JavaScript (a great combination).  My production environment consist of vCenter 5.0, 5.1 and 5.1 vCO vCD. I have the plugin installed vCD and running with Orchestrator.  I am trying to build a workflow that removes NIC1 (NIC 1) of a series of vCloud VMs.  I took a copy of the vCloud Director Library Workflow (remove a NETWORK adapter) and edited the virtual machines of an input parameter to be an array / vCloud:VM.  I modified the taks script so that it loops through the virtual machines in the array and returns their network adapters.  It seems that the network cards are returned as a UID (I have this return to the screen via a System.Log).  This UID is obviously not with that I entered to the workflow runtime - I said "NIC 1" and my workflow will fail with an error "no primary network connection exists; majorErrorCode = 400; minorErrorCode = BAD_REQUEST; vendorSpecificErrorCode = null; (Workflow: remove a NIC 1 / remove the NIC (item0) #22) " Here is the code I use: .

If (vm. Status! = VclVMStatus.POWERED_OFF.value) {}
throw "VM is not off."
}
var found = false;
var len = vms.length;
for (var i = 0; i < len; i ++)
{
var VM = vms [i];
network var cards = VM.getNetworkCards ();
System.log (NICS);
var newNics = new Array();
for (i = 0; i < nics.length; i ++) {}
If (. itemResource.elementName.value NIC [i]! = nicName) {}
newNics.push (nics [i]);
} else {}
found = true;
}
}
If (! found) {}
throw 'Invalid NIC name';
}
task = VM.updateNetworkCards (newNics);
}

As I mentioned earlier, I am a complete newb to vCO\JavaScript and would be really grateful for some input\advice.  If there is a better method to remove the NIC 1 to a litany of vCloud VMs, or if someone has already developed a workflow for this, I would be very grateful for your help.

Thank you


Try this:

var section = vm.getNetworkConnectionSection();
System.log("Primary card was NIC : " + section.primaryNetworkConnectionIndex);
section.primaryNetworkConnectionIndex = 1;
task = vm.updateSection(section);

He's worked here.

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