VMware Communities : Thread List - vCenter Lab Manager API

Resetting a machine's internal IP address in LM 4.0?

tleavitt — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 13:01:44 GMT

Here's my situation: I am cloning multiple Library configurations into an existing workspace configuration using the internal SOAP API (4.0). I already have everything working with LibraryCloneToWorkspace(), including a provision for if multiple machines are inserted with the same name (renaming them as they are added so that they are sure to have a unique name, like LM does internally), and using MachineResetMacAddress() to prevent conflicts with that.

The issue I run into (which is a common case for my application) is that two machines based on the same template are cloned into the same configuration; thus, they have the same name, MAC address, and internal IP. I have the name and MAC address issues sorted out, as I said... but I don't yet have a way to deal with the internal IP.

I intend to keep looking around for a solution, but I was wondering if anyone else has run into the same issue. My guess is that the answer is either in some obscure, yet-undocumented option in MachinePerformAction, or in some argument for a deployment method (i.e., the "Force Recustomization" checkbox). Any ideas?

On a related note, has anyone seen the 4.0 internal API docs floating around?

determining expired configurations

MartinCartwright — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 15:16:45 GMT

It seems that ListConfigurations() calls return all configurations, including those whose storage lease has expired. We would like to be able to exclude these configurations from the results, but can see no way to distinguish between an expired configuration and an unexpired configuration. we are currently using the v3 api. Looking at v4 it seems there are additional methods and members relating to leases, but still nothing that would enable us to figure out if a configuration's storage lease had expired.

Is there any way to achieve this? Or at least is there a way to determine if a config has expired from any other properties?

Java Exception when GetConfigurationByName called for non-existent Configuration

JohnCasebolt — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 20:14:47 GMT

Hi All -

I'm updating our Java-based application from the LM 2.5.3 API to LM 4 API. I'm using the unsupported API, and leveraging Axis2 for the SOAP work.
When using GetConfigurationByName, all works well as long as the requested Configuration exists in LM.
But, if it doesn't, I get an oddball Axis2/SOAP error (see below).

Anybody else having this problem?
In fact, anybody else still using Java for LM API? Kinda feels like VMware has abandoned all but the Windows/C# crowd.

Thanks,
JC

2009-10-28 15:53:07,518 main ERROR labmanageradapter.LabManagerAdapter - Unknown exception encountered when retrieving configuration
org.apache.axiom.om.impl.exception.OMBuilderException: detail unsupported element in SOAPFault element
at org.apache.axiom.soap.impl.builder.SOAP12BuilderHelper.handleEvent(SOAP12BuilderHelper.java:175)
at org.apache.axiom.soap.impl.builder.StAXSOAPModelBuilder.constructNode(StAXSOAPModelBuilder.java:374)
at org.apache.axiom.soap.impl.builder.StAXSOAPModelBuilder.createOMElement(StAXSOAPModelBuilder.java:212)
at org.apache.axiom.soap.impl.builder.StAXSOAPModelBuilder.createNextOMElement(StAXSOAPModelBuilder.java:191)
at org.apache.axiom.om.impl.builder.StAXOMBuilder.next(StAXOMBuilder.java:172)
at org.apache.axiom.om.impl.llom.OMElementImpl.buildNext(OMElementImpl.java:633)
at org.apache.axiom.om.impl.llom.OMNodeImpl.getNextOMSibling(OMNodeImpl.java:141)
at org.apache.axiom.om.impl.llom.OMElementImpl.getNextOMSibling(OMElementImpl.java:314)
at org.apache.axiom.om.impl.traverse.OMChildrenQNameIterator.next(OMChildrenQNameIterator.java:118)
at org.apache.axiom.om.impl.llom.OMElementImpl.getFirstChildWithName(OMElementImpl.java:252)
at org.apache.axiom.soap.impl.llom.soap12.SOAP12FaultImpl.getReason(SOAP12FaultImpl.java:143)
at org.apache.axis2.AxisFault.initializeValues(AxisFault.java:202)
at org.apache.axis2.AxisFault.<init>(AxisFault.java:196)
at org.apache.axis2.util.Utils.getInboundFaultFromMessageContext(Utils.java:512)
at org.apache.axis2.description.OutInAxisOperationClient.handleResponse(OutInAxisOperation.java:370)
at org.apache.axis2.description.OutInAxisOperationClient.send(OutInAxisOperation.java:416)
at org.apache.axis2.description.OutInAxisOperationClient.executeImpl(OutInAxisOperation.java:228)
at org.apache.axis2.client.OperationClient.execute(OperationClient.java:163)
at com.vmware.labmanager.VMwareLabManagerSOAPinterfaceStub.GetConfigurationByName(VMwareLabManagerSOAPinterfaceStub.java:4428)
at org.nplace.ci.fap.labmanageradapter.LabManagerAdapter.getConfigurationByName(LabManagerAdapter.java:390)

How to retrieve DataStore Path

vemwhere — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 15:11:18 GMT

I'm writing a perl script using Labmanager SOAP API to deploy multiple configs in Labmanger. After deploying the Config/VM, I would like to interact with the VMs in each config. To do this I am using the VIX Perl API. My issue is that I need to know the datastore path of each VM as soon as it is deployed so that VIX commands can be ran on it.

The script is multi-threaded. Each thread represents one configuration with one vm.

I know how to list all the datastores for all registered VMs. The VM name is not unique so I cannot parse this list for that. Does anyone know a way to reliably get the datastore path for a VM knowing either the MachineId or ConfigID/MachineID combo? Ideall I would be able to do sometype of search for the ID that will yield the datastore path.

I'm open to VI Toolkit, VIX or anything else out there that will allow me to get this info (preferably using Perl).

Thanks.

Lab Manager plug-in for VMware Orchestrator?

AlexeyBykov — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 10:48:34 GMT

Is Lab Manager plug-in for VMware Orchestrator available?

If not, please, suggest a simplest way to integrate Lab Manager to VMware Orchestrator.

VMWare Tools for Server 2008 R2

Michael1985 — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 02:41:48 GMT

Hi,

I've recently attempted to install the Server 2008 R2 release candidate on a VM in LabManager only to discover that VMWare Tools does contain a supported driver for the Ethernet adapter. Is there an ISO of the latest VMWare tools that would address this or is VMWare simply waiting for the full release?

Regards,

Michael Taylor

Change Name in Machine Defined in Workspace

dphinc — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 22:51:17 GMT

I am using Lab Manager 3 and would like to be able to change the Name of a machine defined in the Workspace before I Clone and Deploy the Workspace. I have everything working with the supported APIs except the Name change.

I've looked at the LabManagerInternal services but don't see anything obvious.

Any suggestions?

Internal LM API Operation "machineInsertCDFromPath" returns "Deprecated. Use ESX30Agent.SmbMount"

dleigh — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 14:19:00 GMT

In LM 3.0, attempting to use the "machineInsertCDFromPath" operation, we get the result: "Deprecated. Use ESX30Agent.SmbMount". Is this operation broken? Any suggestions?

How to know the labamanger version ?

vm_wonder — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 12:05:42 GMT

Is it possible to retreive the labmanager version to which am connecting using the LabManager SOAP?

Thanks.

Changing a Configuration's Property Values

SteveFonden — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 13:42:22 GMT

How does one change any of the properties of a Configuration and persist them to the system? Specifically, it is the "description" property that I would like to adjust for an existing, or newly captured, Configuration. I cannot determine how to do this, even with the "LabManagerInternal" WSDL, but the web application provides a property window that the user can adjust and persist so it must be possible. The only function I can find that accepts a "description" argument is the ConfigurationCopy function, but I don't think that I want to create a copy of a configuration each time I want to change the description, right?

URGENT API calls to LabManager 4.0 fails

vm_wonder — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 11:39:51 GMT

My organization recently upgraded the Labmanager from v3.0 to v4.0. The methods what we exposed through C# .net assembly started failing after upgrade of labmanager while it worked perfectly in previous versions (both v2.5 and v3.0). Please advice immediately since this is very critical.

The exceptions are thrown in Labmanager SOAP methods like ListConfigurations(), GetSingleConfigurationByName() and probably others too.

(Exception: Could not find Bucket in database given the parameters--->)

Sample code which worked in v3.0 while it fails in v4.0 :

binding = new LabManagerSoap.LabManagerSOAPinterface();
binding.Url = sLabManagerSOAPUrl;
binding.Timeout = 10 * 300 * 1000;

binding.AuthenticationHeaderValue = new LabManagerSoap.AuthenticationHeader();
binding.AuthenticationHeaderValue.username = sUsername;
binding.AuthenticationHeaderValue.password = sPassword;
ServicePointManager.CertificatePolicy = new CertificateAccepter();

//** Get Configurations in Workspace and see if the connection could be established
int configurationType = 1; //** 1=Workspace
LabManagerSoap.Configuration[] WSconfigurations = binding.ListConfigurations(configurationType); <---- exception is thrown here.

Thanks.

ConfigurationDeployEx Sample Code Needed

cregan89 — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 15:23:28 GMT

Could anybody send me some sample code using the ConfigurationDeployEx method? The standard ConfigurationDeploy method is not powerful enough to do what I need, but I can't get the ConfigurationDeployEx method to work no matter what I try. Preferably I need sample code in C# 2008. Thanks in advance.

SOAP Equivilant for: Clone to existing worspace?

Michael Ottati — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 18:33:33 GMT

I would like to automate the "merging" of two different library configurations into a single work space. The two base configurations making up the merge are libraries. Is there a mechanism to do this using the LabManagerInternal API set?

My first attempt was to use Checkout. That API fails due to the server side requirement that the target of checkout operation may not exist. This is shown below:

test:
LabMinder:Checkout Checking out library: LoadRunner4K_SSH to workspace: TaskS
pace500.15
BUILD FAILED
javax.xml.ws.soap.SOAPFaultException: "TaskSpace500.15" already exists in the workspace. ---> "TaskSpace500.15" already exists in the workspace. ---> "TaskSpace500.15" already exists in the workspace.

I next considered using the ConfigurationClone method. That method requries a workspace to be passed in on the configurationId argument as shown below:

test:
LabMinder:Clone Starting to clone configuration LoadRunner4K_SSH
BUILD FAILED
javax.xml.ws.soap.SOAPFaultException: This configuration is not a Workspace Configuration ---> This configuration is not a Workspace Configuration ---> This configuration is not a Workspace Configuration

My question is what API call should I be using to do this? I looked at ConfigurationCopy however that method requires that a VMCopyData structure be created. The requirement of the VMCopyData structure implies that this call initiates a deep copy operation, potentially onto a different data store.

Is there a way to do this?

ConfigurationDeploy()

CapiZikus — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 09:58:44 GMT

Hi al,

i am sucessfull cloned and deployed using PowershellCTP3, but there is no option to connect to the physical network during deploy, here my comman:-

$labmanager.ConfigurationDeploy(132,0,4) , the "4" for FenceAllowInAndOut,

What i'm trying to do is clone the configuration, deploy them and export the external IP address, so user can connect any VMs from their computer.

Any suggestion?

I can see the "BeginConfigurationDeploy" and EndConfigurationDeploy but not sure how to user them (from $labManager | gm | where { $_.MemberType -eq "Method" })

Thanks

ps: I have seen a lotof potential useful funtion in LabManagerInternal Class, but not sure how to use them,is anylink I could read?

Script to Clone Configuration and Deploys in LM

CapiZikus — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 15:04:54 GMT

Is anyway I could create a script to clone a config that shared in LM and deploys them afterward?
I know how to do clone and deploy script using VI Toolkit, but not sure about the LM, any suggest or starting poing please.

Thanks

internalIP seems to always be null?

Swordphish99 — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 14:18:35 GMT

We purchased Lab Manager to replace out QA automation testing environment
from ESX, this decision was made on what the SOAP API that Lab Manager
offers. We are trying to develop a system for our QA testers that will
deploy a bank of images on demand power them on, and execute a series of test,
and also have the ability to underplay the image bank when it's done to release
the SilkTest agent license so other test can be run. (SilkTest is our
sledgehammer QA automation tool we use to perform all our automated regression
and function tests)

I am currently able to "checkout" and "Check in"
now I am trying to start up a process (i.e. SilkTest with the given test) and
wait for the process to end. Now when I try to pull the
"internalIP" from a deployed and running machine it is null? I
am not sure why it's NULL, and I'm kind of at a road block on.

And with that said. Does anyone have any ideas as to why, and is there
anyone out there who is working on this type of Lab Manager testing environment
and would like to share some knowledge on developing such a system...

Thanks in advance...

_swordphish

How can you get a list of organizations?

pyurgal — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 20:17:19 GMT

I am trying to write a small C# program that will list the Organizations setup in the LabManager environment. Is there an LabManager SOAP API call to do this? The only thing that I could find is the "LabManagerInternal.GetOrganizations" method but I am not sure how to use this method.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks

Paul

How to deploy a sinlge image from a mulitimage configuration?

Swordphish99 — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 17:09:06 GMT

In the Lab Manager GUI you are able to select the images you want to deploy from a library configuration, is there a way to do this with the SOAP API

Thanks in advance...

Deploy one machine in a workspace config. with fenced networking

dleigh — Tue, 05 May 2009 18:05:32 GMT

Is there a way to deploy one machine from an undeployed workspace configuration with fenced networking? We can use MachinePerformAction to deploy a single machine from an undeployed workspace, but the machine does not get an external IP address. If the configuration is first deployed with fenced networking, we can then deploy and undeploy individual machines and get external IPs. Is there a way to deploy a single machine with fenced networking without first deploying the configuration? We can do this in the GUI...

Thanks,

VMwareLabManagerSOAPinterface is an unknown type

ACKH — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 10:36:13 GMT

Hi all,

I'm doing my first steps with the SOAP API of the Lab Manager. So far I have set up the project in Visual Studio 2008. As desribed in the SOAP API guide I have created the proxy objects using Visual Studio. I'm able to browse it using Visual Studios object browser. The problem is that I don't see any types starting with "VMware", especially I don't see "VMwareLabManagerSOAPinterface". Because of that the first sample application of the SOAP API guide does not compile.

The attached screenshot shows all types that are available to me. Any help is greatly appreachiated.

Thanks!

ACKH

internalIP seems to always be null?

Swordphish99 — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 14:19:11 GMT

Hello fellow experts it's me again... :-P
First I'll give you a brief overview of what I am trying to accomplish for my project, cause I am hoping someone here is going through the same thing and maybe we will be able to help each other in doing so...
We purchased Lab Manager to replace out QA automation testing environment from ESX, this decision was made on what the SOAP API that Lab Manager offers. We are trying to develop a system for our QA testers that will deploy a bank of images on demand power them on, and execute a series of test, and also have the ability to underplay the image bank when it's done to release the SilkTest agent license so other test can be run. (SilkTest is our sledgehammer QA automation tool we use to perform all our automated regression and function tests)
I am currently able to "checkout" and "Check in" now I am trying to start up a process (i.e. SilkTest with the given test) and wait for the process to end. Now when I try to pull the "internalIP" from a deployed and running machine it is null? I am not sure why it's NULL, and I'm kind of at a road block on.
And with that said. Does anyone have any ideas as to why, and is there anyone out there who is working on this type of Lab Manager testing environment and would like to share some knowledge on developing such a system...
Thanks in advance...
_swordphish

VI SDK - vim25.jar will support esx3 server

kbr5678 — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 07:58:00 GMT

Hi...

In our environment we are using vim.jar ..now we are going to replace vim25.jar instead of vim.jar.. vim25.jar will support esx3 server..

If am using that vim25.jar ........It throws SOAP exception.....Is any idea ?

Iam using vim25.jar used to connect esx3 server VI SDK -not vCenter

kbr5678 — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 05:36:51 GMT

Hi ..

Iam using vim25.jar used to connect esx3 server via VI SDK

throws exception

AxisFault
faultCode: ClientFaultCode
faultSubcode:
faultString: Unsupported namespace in content of SOAP Body
faultActor:
faultNode:
faultDetail:
{http://xml.apache.org/axis/}stackTrace:Unsupported namespace in content of SOAP Body
at org.apache.axis.message.SOAPFaultBuilder.createFault(SOAPFaultBuilder.java:222)
at org.apache.axis.message.SOAPFaultBuilder.endElement(SOAPFaultBuilder.java:129)
at org.apache.axis.encoding.DeserializationContext.endElement(DeserializationContext.java:1087)
at org.apache.xerces.parsers.AbstractSAXParser.endElement(Unknown Source)
at org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLNSDocumentScannerImpl.scanEndElement(Unknown Source)
at org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl$FragmentContentDispatcher.dispatch(Unknown Source)
at org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl.scanDocument(Unknown Source)
at org.apache.xerces.parsers.XML11Configuration.parse(Unknown Source)
at org.apache.xerces.parsers.XML11Configuration.parse(Unknown Source)
at org.apache.xerces.parsers.XMLParser.parse(Unknown Source)
at org.apache.xerces.parsers.AbstractSAXParser.parse(Unknown Source)
at org.apache.xerces.jaxp.SAXParserImpl$JAXPSAXParser.parse(Unknown Source)
at javax.xml.parsers.SAXParser.parse(Unknown Source)
at org.apache.axis.encoding.DeserializationContext.parse(DeserializationContext.java:227)
at org.apache.axis.SOAPPart.getAsSOAPEnvelope(SOAPPart.java:696)
at org.apache.axis.Message.getSOAPEnvelope(Message.java:435)
at org.apache.axis.handlers.soap.MustUnderstandChecker.invoke(MustUnderstandChecker.java:62)
at org.apache.axis.client.AxisClient.invoke(AxisClient.java:206)
at org.apache.axis.client.Call.invokeEngine(Call.java:2784)
at org.apache.axis.client.Call.invoke(Call.java:2767)
at org.apache.axis.client.Call.invoke(Call.java:2443)
at org.apache.axis.client.Call.invoke(Call.java:2366)
at org.apache.axis.client.Call.invoke(Call.java:1812)
at com.vmware.vim25.VimBindingStub.retrieveServiceContent(VimBindingStub.java:43886)
at Vm25Connection.getEsxConnection(Vm25Connection.java:28)
at Vm25ConnectionPool.getConnection(Vm25ConnectionPool.java:130)
at VmGetInfoReal.getEsxConnection(VmGetInfoReal.java:1001)
at VmGetInfoConnectionThread.isConnectedToEsx(VmGetInfoConnectionThread.java:58)
at VmGetInfoConnectionThread.run(VmGetInfoConnectionThread.java:17)

{http://xml.apache.org/axis/}hostname:egurkha161

Unsupported namespace in content of SOAP Body
at org.apache.axis.message.SOAPFaultBuilder.createFault(SOAPFaultBuilder.java:222)
at org.apache.axis.message.SOAPFaultBuilder.endElement(SOAPFaultBuilder.java:129)
at org.apache.axis.encoding.DeserializationContext.endElement(DeserializationContext.java:1087)
at org.apache.xerces.parsers.AbstractSAXParser.endElement(Unknown Source)
at org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLNSDocumentScannerImpl.scanEndElement(Unknown Source)
at org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl$FragmentContentDispatcher.dispatch(Unknown Source)
at org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl.scanDocument(Unknown Source)
at org.apache.xerces.parsers.XML11Configuration.parse(Unknown Source)
at org.apache.xerces.parsers.XML11Configuration.parse(Unknown Source)
at org.apache.xerces.parsers.XMLParser.parse(Unknown Source)
at org.apache.xerces.parsers.AbstractSAXParser.parse(Unknown Source)
at org.apache.xerces.jaxp.SAXParserImpl$JAXPSAXParser.parse(Unknown Source)
at javax.xml.parsers.SAXParser.parse(Unknown Source)
at org.apache.axis.encoding.DeserializationContext.parse(DeserializationContext.java:227)
at org.apache.axis.SOAPPart.getAsSOAPEnvelope(SOAPPart.java:696)
at org.apache.axis.Message.getSOAPEnvelope(Message.java:435)
at org.apache.axis.handlers.soap.MustUnderstandChecker.invoke(MustUnderstandChecker.java:62)
at org.apache.axis.client.AxisClient.invoke(AxisClient.java:206)
at org.apache.axis.client.Call.invokeEngine(Call.java:2784)
at org.apache.axis.client.Call.invoke(Call.java:2767)
at org.apache.axis.client.Call.invoke(Call.java:2443)
at org.apache.axis.client.Call.invoke(Call.java:2366)
at org.apache.axis.client.Call.invoke(Call.java:1812)
at com.vmware.vim25.VimBindingStub.retrieveServiceContent(VimBindingStub.java:43886)
at Vm25Connection.getEsxConnection(Vm25Connection.java:28)
at Vm25ConnectionPool.getConnection(Vm25ConnectionPool.java:130)
at VmGetInfoReal.getEsxConnection(VmGetInfoReal.java:1001)
at VmGetInfoConnectionThread.isConnectedToEsx(VmGetInfoConnectionThread.java:58)
at VmGetInfoConnectionThread.run(VmGetInfoConnectionThread.java:17)

VI SDK to monitor an ESX server and its VMs through VC.

kbr5678 — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 04:38:10 GMT

I am using VI SDK to monitor an ESX server and its VMs through VC. ESX metrics are retrieved properly but no VMs are discovered. I have used the administrator only. VC version is 2.5 update 4. Has any one seen this issue before? Any clues?"

Thanks

ram

How to Deploy to a virtual network connected to a physical network

AHutton — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 16:01:23 GMT

I working with a configuration that is set up as virtual network for its network. I want to be able to deploy it while connecting it to a physicla network, and allowing in/out trafffic. Can someone enlighten me?

getting more info for some internal calls...

cschmidt — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 20:01:24 GMT

So i can point a browser at my lm server like this: https://<lm.server.name.or.ip>/LabManager/SOAP/LabManagerInternal.asmx

which gets me the xml that the various soap calls are expecting and how they will respond.

However, some of the calls aren't very well documented here, for example TemplatePerformAction, just takes an action as an int, but doesn't explain what actions are available. Is there a way of finding this out? What am i missing?

Thanks,

Calvin

API, Revert and Snapshot a machine?

Swordphish99 — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 16:31:13 GMT

How do you take a snapshot via the API, I have been trying to use the
MachinePerformAction, and sending in the snapshot value, but there is
no parmeter for what to call a snapshot nor what snapshot to revert too?

And I keep getting an error "InvalidAction" but the documentation dosn't really state how to perform these two actions...

Any help would be grand! Thanks in advance...

If it possible to use vim25.jar to connect Esx3 servers..

kbr5678 — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 09:59:12 GMT

Hi..

If it possible to use vim25.jar to connect Esx3 servers..If any changes in vim25.jar files..iam waiting for urs reply............................

Thanks

ram

How to get the hosts currenttime via VirtualCenter (VI SDK)

kbr5678 — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 09:59:40 GMT

Hai..

How to get the Esx hosts currenttime via VirtualCenter (VI SDK).......................

thanks

ram

Getting info on Stored and Deployed User Quotas

tparkhom — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 21:05:39 GMT

Hi,

I would like to be able to get the info on user quota for stored and deployed configurations. Internal SOAP API "GetCurrentUser" provides this information as well as number of currently stored and deployed configurations.

However, I can't execute "GetCurrentUser" with non-admin permissions. This does not make much sence, because it is different from "GetUser" which can be used to get someone else password, but "GetCurrentUser" will return the password of the user to the same user.

I have two questions:

First: is there a way to enable user permissions so that this API can be executed without making a user an "admin" ?

Second: is there any other way to get user quotas through SOAP?

How to Delete a VM through SDK

vm_wonder — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 08:03:06 GMT

Hello again,
One more question to my already required list

Basically i wanted to know if there is a way to delete a VM which is undeployed. I looked at MachinePerformAction() method and there is not corresponding ActionID for delete VM.

I do not want to use ConfigurationDelete() method because it deletes all VMs under the Configuration. I wanted to delete only specific VMs in my configuration.

The action to be performed: <list> <item>1 for Power On</item> <item>2 for Power Off</item> <item>3 for Suspend</item> <item>4 for Resume</item> <item>5 for Reset</item> <item>6 for Snapshot</item> <item>7 for Revert</item> <item>8 for Shutdown Guest</item> </list>

Thanks.

How to use Async Methods

cpope — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 03:22:09 GMT

Hey everyone,

I have just started working with the LM API a few weeks ago. I am successful in doing most things using the direct blocking calls but really need to iplement Async Processing.

Does anyone have an example of how to use the eventhandlers in .net code?

I am declaring:

public MyListCompleted as new LabManagerSoap.ListConfigurationsCompletedEventHandler(addressOf form1.MyListComplete)

public MyArgs as LabManagerSoap.ListConfigurationsCompletedEventArgs

and created a proper MyListComplete proceedure but it never gets fired. Do I need to associate something with MyListCompleted somehow?

HELP!

Thanks,

Curtis

Using NetInfo with ConfigurationAddMachineEx() method

vm_wonder — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 09:12:50 GMT

Hello,
I need help on building NetInfo class object which will be passed to ConfigurationAddMachineEx() method. The documentation for the Internal API does not explain the members of the class completely.

I have attached a screenshot file which shows the options which are available when adding a new VM manually through labmanager web interface.

Am using LabManager 3.0 (3.0.2.56) version.

Thanks.

Roles & Rights

farojoyer — Fri, 08 May 2009 20:21:37 GMT

Hi,

This seems like a simple question, but I just can't seem to find it...

Anyone know what user right I can assign to a role that would allow someone to Insert/Swap/Eject a CD to a VM in their workspace?

What I'm looking for is a way to assign minimal rights that are still usable. View Only seems like enough, except for the right mentioned above...

Regards,

moving/copying templates between organizations?

cschmidt — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 19:31:34 GMT

I'm setting up some automation to manage a group of servers(bring up arbitrary config, do some post processing). Currently one team is already using LM and has some active configurations and a set of templates. I was setup in a separate organization, with the intention being that I'll have a separate datastore for the VMs I'll be bringing up. I want to leverage the templates that already exist within the primary organization. I know that if i had access i could use templatecopy to copy it to my datastore, but I can't see it unless i use the primary organization.(this user account has rights in both orgs)

What's the best way for me to go about this? Am i better to just not have a separate organization and put both datastores under the same org? or is there a viable way to

How to modify Memory on a given VM Machine through SDK?

vm_wonder — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 14:42:04 GMT

Hello all,
I would like to know if how to change the default memory for a VM through SDK. In my case the default value is 1024 MB when i add a new VM.
I can get Machine object from GetMachineByName() method but changing the fields on this object does not reflect back to the original VM.

Thanks.

Deploy configuration to specific Resource Pool

cpope — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 01:25:23 GMT

Hi, I am working on an automation application that deploys a large number of configurations very quickly for a training environment. I would like to specify the resource pool that the configuration gets deployed into like I can in the LM interface. I have looked through the API and the InternalAPI and don't see a method to do this. Is there any undocumented tricks to be able to achieve what I am looking for.

Thanks,

Curtis

Call to get a list of all templates?

cschmidt — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 18:18:35 GMT

I'm not seeing any obvious way fo getting all available templates. Anybody have any suggestions, besides looping through an incrementing GetTemplate(id) routine?

Thanks,

SOAP ConfigurationAddMachineEx error: Unable to cast transparent proxy to type 'LabManager.Backend.Interfaces.ITemplateContainer'.

cschmidt — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 16:56:36 GMT

Lab Manager 3.0.0.2063

I'm trying to use the SOAP api to dynamically build a configuration. I'm working in python, but I'm testing calls using soapUI. I can successfully list configurations, machines, etc so the basic connectivity is working. Based on the internal wsdl, soapUI created the following xml for the soap request(i've filled in values where it seemed appropriate and partially based on another config made through the web interface):

<soapenv:Envelope xmlns:soapenv="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/" xmlns:lab="http://vmware.com/labmanager">
<soapenv:Header>
<lab:AuthenticationHeader>

<lab:username>myuser</lab:username>

<lab:password>mypass</lab:password>

<lab:organizationname>myorg</lab:organizationname>
</lab:AuthenticationHeader>
</soapenv:Header>
<soapenv:Body>
<lab:ConfigurationAddMachineEx>
<lab:id>404</lab:id>
<lab:template_id>741</lab:template_id>

<lab:name>Blah</lab:name>

<lab:desc>Foo</lab:desc>
<lab:boot_seq>0</lab:boot_seq>
<lab:boot_delay>0</lab:boot_delay>

<lab:netInfo>

<lab:NetInfo>
<lab:networkId>2</lab:networkId>
<lab:nicId>775</lab:nicId>
<lab:vmxSlot>0</lab:vmxSlot>

<lab:macAddress/>
<lab:resetMac>false</lab:resetMac>
<lab:ipAddressingMode>STATIC_AUTOMATIC</lab:ipAddressingMode>

<lab:ipAddress/>

<lab:externalIpAddress/>

<lab:netmask/>

<lab:gateway/>

<lab:dns1/>

<lab:dns2/>
<lab:isConnected>true</lab:isConnected>
</lab:NetInfo>
</lab:netInfo>
</lab:ConfigurationAddMachineEx>
</soapenv:Body>
</soapenv:Envelope>

In return for the above xml i get the following response:

<soap:Envelope xmlns:soap="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema">
<soap:Body>
<soap:Fault>
<faultcode>soap:Client</faultcode>
<faultstring>Unable to cast transparent proxy to type 'LabManager.Backend.Interfaces.ITemplateContainer'. ---> Unable to cast transparent proxy to type 'LabManager.Backend.Interfaces.ITemplateContainer'. ---> Unable to cast transparent proxy to type 'LabManager.Backend.Interfaces.ITemplateContainer'.</faultstring>
<detail>
<message type="failure">
<format>Unable to cast transparent proxy to type 'LabManager.Backend.Interfaces.ITemplateContainer'.</format>
<debug>at LabManager.Web.SOAP.SOAPMethodAttribute.ProcessException(IMessage message, ClassLogger cLogger)
at LabManager.Web.SOAP.SOAPMethodAdminAttribute.PostProcessing(IMessage message)</debug>
</message>
</detail>
</soap:Fault>
</soap:Body>
</soap:Envelope>

Anybody see this error before, any ideas on moving forward?

Thanks,

Intermittent Errors With SOAP calls

vinayan3 — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 17:14:32 GMT

Hi,

I have some Python code which makes SOAP calls to LabManager. However, sometimes the call ends in the status code 500 and the following esponse:

Internal Server
Error: Incorrect username or password. ---> Incorrect username or password.

However, 99% of the time I don't get this error and my requests go sucesfully.

Does anyone have any suggestions of how to avoid this problem?

Vinay

ConfigurationPerformAction

AHutton — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 19:49:55 GMT

Can anyone give me a list of what the actions are for this call? Thanks

SetCurrentOrganization question

AHutton — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 21:20:35 GMT

I am trying to use this method, as ConfigurtionChangeOwner requires being in the same organization. So I login to SOAP and bind in the global organization, then I setcurrentorganization to another organization and then checkout a configuration. I would have thought it would be then checkout under that new organization, but it isn't it is still global. However if I then go to the website I am indeed in that new organization. What do i have to do to get it checkout to another organization? Did I misguess at to what SetCurrentOrganizations intended use case was?

Any advice or information would be greatly appreciated

Python SOAP API

cschmidt — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 20:10:56 GMT

Hello all, i'm looking for an example python script to talk to Lab manager's SOAP API. Assume that I want to run this on a freshly installed Ubuntu image. I've got python 2.5 and have intalled the latest version of ZSI. I've managed to get the wsdl file and converted it using wsdl2py. I'm now trying to setup even a simple connection and i'm not having much luck.

Anyone here successfully using python for this interaction?

Thanks,

Welcome Lab Manager Developers!

Corey_R — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 20:38:52 GMT

Welcome to the new VMware vCenter Lab Manager SDK Community.

1. Documentation for the SDK

2. Download (Included in the VMware Lab Manager Download)

Have fun and we would like to hear your feedback.

Thank You,

Corey Romero

VMware Community Web Producer