Starting out with vCO: unable to return list of VMs with VcPlugin.getAllVirtualMachines()

[dmented]

Hi,

I'm following this blog to get my feet wet with vCO but it doesnt seem to return the list of all VMs:

Blog:

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What I'm using: vCO Appliance 5.5 with vCenter 5.5/ESXi 5.5

Whats happening?

From the policy log, SNMP traps are being received just fine but the VM cannot be located from the inventory. I tried editing the policy to return the number of items in the array that is received from VcPlugin.getAllVirtualMachines() and it's returning as 0.

Not sure what else to do. Do i need to manually connect to vCenter from within the script? From the example in the blog, he just did straight apply / run policy so not sure what gives.

Thanks.

[dmented]

i have this (from the video tutorial):

var allVms = VcPlugin.getAllVirtualMachines();

var ret = null;

System.log("Count " + allVms.length);

but its returning as Count: 0

[tschoergez]

Can you see the vms when you browse through the inventory manually in the vco client?

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[dmented]

Hello tschoergez

Yes, I can see the VM's fine when I browse from within the vCO Client (Administer -> vCenter Server)

[dmented]

Here's the script snippet, it returns null

function findVM(vmname) {

  var allVms = VcPlugin.getAllVirtualMachines();

  var ret = null;

  System.log("Count " + allVms.length);

  for (var i in allVms) {

  System.log("VM is " + allVms[i].name);

  if (allVms[i].name.match(vmname)) {

  ret = allVms[i];

  break;

  }

  }

  return ret;

}

[dmented]

ok. i think i'm going somewhere, it now returned values BUT the new VM created is not on the inventory.

so whats happening from what I can see is: VM is Created -> VcPlugin.getAllVirtualMachines() -> it doesnt return the VM because it cannot see it.

Is there a way i can refresh inventory during run time?