vCAC Plugin for vCO - retrieve custom properties

[GHUser911]

Hi,

I've installed the vCAC plugin in the Orchestrator and I'm trying to retrieve information from a vCAC:VirtualMachine Object.

Does anyone know how can I retrieve from this object custom properties that I've defined in vCAC?

I can only get the default properties for the object type such as display name but I would like to retrieve properties that I have created using the property dictionary in vCAC.

Also, does anyone know how can I set the properties using the vCO such as the machine name. It seems not to do anything when I'm trying to set a value.

I'm using vCO 5.1 and vCAC 5.2.

Thanks in advance,

Maxim.

[cdecanini_ · Accepted solution]

Please look at the vCAC extensibility package in the document tab. it includes the code to get the properties of the vCAC VM.

[dcoulter]

Hi Christophe, can you provide an example of accessing vCAC custom properties of a vCAC VM?  The only samples I see from the vCAC plug-in documentation are CRUD operations for vCAC entities (versus VMs) with no specific examples of accessing related custom property data (separate table in DB schema).  I'm also looking for a way to get the child VMs for a given vCAC host, but that's a topic for another day...

Thanks,

David

[cdecanini_]

I am offsite, without access to the workflows. I know I have a workflow template displaying all the custom properties in the extensibility package in the document tab.

[dcoulter]

Hi Christophe, my apologies, I was thinking the vCAC extensibility package and the plug-in were one and the same.  I've included a link below to the package:

vCloud Automation Center extensibility package

[GHUser911]

Hi Christophe,

Thanks you very much for the information.

Unfortunately I still can't find how can I retrieve a custom property from a vCAC VM Object.

Can you point me to the appropriate page?

Any help will be appreciated.

Maxim.

[dcoulter]

Hi Maxim, try the "getPropertiesFromVirtualMachine" action from the vCAC extensibility package mentioned above (supply the vCAC host and vCAC VM as inputs):

var vmCustomProps = System.getModule("com.vmware.coe.vcac").getPropertiesFromVirtualMachine(vcacHost, vcacVm);