topic Re: Retrieve vCenter instance name in vSphere Management SDK Discussions

Retrieve vCenter instance name

enricodile — Mon, 15 Feb 2016 12:06:14 GMT

Hi,

How can I retrieve vCenter's instance name with SDK?

In vsphere Client i can see the name (in image below : SRVCENTER):

I could not find it in any object...

Thanks in advance

Henry

Re: Retrieve vCenter instance name

enricodile — Mon, 15 Feb 2016 12:32:25 GMT

In attachment the screenshot..

Re: Retrieve vCenter instance name

stumpr — Mon, 15 Feb 2016 15:30:51 GMT

You'll want the OptionManager object on the ServiceInstance.

ServiceInstance -> setting ['VirtualCenter.InstanceName']

Re: Retrieve vCenter instance name

enricodile — Tue, 16 Feb 2016 10:57:45 GMT

Thank you very much, but i still have a problem.

This is my code:

ServiceInstance si = new ServiceInstance(url, username, password, ignoreCert);

OptionManager om = si.getOptionManager();

OptionValue[] ovs =om.queryOptions("VirtualCenter.InstanceName");

It returns this error on the third line:

Exception in thread "main" com.vmware.vim25.NoPermission

Also, this instruction:

OptionValue[] ovs =om.getSetting();

returns a NullPointerException...

Where is the problem?

Re: Retrieve vCenter instance name

stumpr — Tue, 16 Feb 2016 11:00:47 GMT

You'll need to login. If you are logging in, you also need permissions:

This method might require any of the following privileges depending on where the property fits in the inventory tree.

System.View on the root folder, if this is used to read settings in the "client" subtree.

System.Read on the root folder, if this is used to read all settings or any settings beside those in the "client" subtree.

System.Read on the host, if this is used to read the advanced options for a host configuration.