Perl script to create role for ESX 4.0

[jumsky79]

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my $host_view = Vim::find_entity_view(view_type => 'Folder', filter => {'name' => 'ha-folder-root'});

my $auth_mgr = Vim::get_view(mo_ref => Vim::get_service_content()->authorizationManager);

my $role = "test-role";

my @roleprivIds = ('Datastore.Browse','Global.ManageCustomFields');

$auth_mgr->AddAuthorizationRole(name => $role, privIds => \@roleprivIds);

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This code succeed on ESX 3.5.

but it fail on ESX 4.0.

　Can't locate object method "deserialize" via package "ArrayOfTag" (perhaps you f

　orgot to load "ArrayOfTag"?) at C:/Program Files/VMware/VMware vSphere CLI/Perl/

　lib/VMware/VICommon.pm line 2030.

Does anyone have any code to create a role for ESX 4.0?

Any help is greatly appreciated!

help me.

[lamw · Accepted solution]

Take a look at this script:

Works both on ESX(i) 3.5 and 4.0 and on vCenter 4.0 (don't have a spare vCenter 2.5 to test)

Note: Test was done on vMA 4.0

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[jumsky79]

Thank you

I succeeded by using createRole.pl on ESXi4.0.

Test was done on windows(Perl for SDK)

[pbsellers]

I know you've already found a working solution, but I had a different type script throwing the same error and so I wanted to post for anyone else who may be seeing this problem.

Error: Can't locate object method "deserialize" via package "ArrayOfTag" (perhaps you forgot to load "ArrayOfTag"?) at /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.8/VMware/VICommon.pm line 2030.

I found the root cause in my script and I suspect in your original script. The working ESX 3.5 script probably included:

use VMware::VIM2Runtime

To work with the ESX 4.0 or vMA 4.0, you should instead have:

use VMware::VIRuntime

This cleared up my issue.