VI Custom Fields

froboy — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 15:45:00 GMT

I decided to dabble into custom fields. I have scripts to add, remove, rename and set custom fields. I also have a cool script to export your custom fields to a CSV file and vice versa.

Prerequisites:
VI 3.5 (VI API 2.5.0)
Latest VI Perl Toolkit (VMware VI Remote CLI will install this)
Text::CSV_XS (Perl module for CSVs)
Text::CSV::Simple (Perl module for CSVs)

Scripts:
addvifield.pl - Adds Custom Field to VI
cf2csv.pl - Exports Custom Fields to CSV File
csv2cf.pl - Imports CSV File to Custom Fields (Note: Custom Fields must already be created)
readdcfields.pl - Reads all Custom Fields from every VM in a datacenter
readvmfield.pl - Reads a single Custom Fields from a VM
readvmfields.pl - Reads all Custom Fields from a VM
removevifield.pl - Removes a Custom Fields from VI
renamevifield.pl - Renames a Custom Field in VI
setvmfield.pl - Assigns a value to a Custom Field in a VM
setdctools.pl - Reads VMWare Tools Version From Each VM In A Datacenter And Applies It To The Custom Field "Tools Version"

VC Licensing Spreadsheet

froboy — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 16:17:00 GMT

I put my licensing script into a spreadsheet...

You need to populate your own hostnames and licensing server, but it will query the licensing log against those hostnames.

Jonathan Marrott's VM Scripting Blog

VI Custom Fields

VC Licensing Spreadsheet