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Management Services customizations posted: Nov 2, 2009 5:26 AM

Click to view NickelNetworks's profile Novice 22 posts since
Jul 1, 2009

I would like to be able to add entries to the existing management web interface for a VM we are creating in order to be able to setup and configure the application we are installing in the similar way you change the IP address of the applicance for example. Is there any documentation on how this can be done? I think this is called Management Services..

I am curently using a shell script on first boot which works fine, but would like to integrate that into the web management console app.

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Paul Aviles
www.nickelnetworks.com

Re: Management Services customizations

1. Nov 2, 2009 10:41 AM in response to: NickelNetworks
Click to view sjalagam's profile Lurker 1 posts since
Nov 11, 2008

Please look for "Adding a Linux Management Service" in Studio Developer Guide. (http://www.vmware.com/support/developer/studio/studio20/studio_developer.pdf).

It is possible to accomplish what you are asking for, you can use the lighttpd (webserver) to serve the webpage in the new tab and write a cgi file to run your command (lighttpd is already configured to work with python).

You can create the Management Services by hand or use eclipse to create and build a service (Please see VMware Studio Plugin for Eclipse>Creating Management Services in Developer Guide)

Please see the attached cgisample.tar that shows how to run a command and show the output. It also does http basic authentication. Please see "Importing a Management Service" to see how to import and use the attached cgisample.tar


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