Accessing custom field through SDK

[mickmason]

Hi,

Our VMWare administrators have added a custom field that shows up as a column when viewingthe Virtual Machines tab.

Are there any methods in the SDK that would allow me access this custom field? I'm using C#, but I could probably use a Perl example as a starting point.

Thanks

Mick

[mickmason]

I omitted to mention that the tab shows up in the Virtual Infrastructure Client.

M

[lamw · Accepted solution]

Take a look at these two scripts for sample code:

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VMware vExpert 2009

VMware ESX/ESXi scripts and resources at:

VMware Code Central - Scripts/Sample code for Developers and Administrators

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[mickmason]

Thanks.

That sent me in the right direction.

In C# it looks something like this (we only have one custom field, so I haven't had to iterate through the collection).

machine is my own object that stores info about the guest, VM is an instance of VirtualMachine.

CustomFieldValue[] cfv = vm.Summary.CustomValue;

CustomFieldStringValue euc = (CustomFieldStringValue)cfv[0];

machine.Euc = euc.Value.ToString(); ;