Remove objects from the AD when a virtual machine is removed from the vCenter with vCO
All,
I am new to vCenter Orchestrator and have bad getting started with him. I'm trying to figure out how to automatically remove the Active Directory from the computer object when it is deleted in vCenter. My idea is when the virtual machine is removed, it starts a workflow that deletes the object. I don't know how to call that or if it is still possible.
The problem I am trying to solve, is that our developers are self provisioning of servers Windows and Linux through vCAC in the realm of 50 + per day. They also remove most of them in 5 or 6 days causing much left on objects cluttering up AD. So I try to find a way to have the deleted object when they destroy their vCAC provisioned machines. My original idea was to make based on the GUID and UUID but I not figure out how to actually call with vRO. I'm open to other ideas that can adapt to this task better, no need to force this idea of the solution to the problem if someone already knows a way to do that.
Little background information is that I'm under vCenter 5.5 Update 2, 6.1 and vCO 5.5.2 vCAC. The objects being deleted are Windows 2008 R2, Windows 2012 R2 and CentOS 6.5 servers.
Thank you in advance, I think that once I get more of an idea on how it works, I'll be able to deploy more ideas.
This can be achieved by simply adding following some custom properties in your Machine Blueprint or group of companies in VCAC.
Plugin.AdMachineCleanup.UserName-
Plugin.AdMachineCleanup.Password-
Plugin.AdMachineCleanup.Execute Plugin.AdMachineCleanup.Delete Otherwise, create a profile to build using above set of custom properties, this way it will be easy for you to add in several plans in your environment vCAC.
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